NUS Services is owned by Students’ Unions and the National Union of Students. Our mission statement is to; ‘Create, develop and sustain competitive advantages for member Students’ Unions – reducing costs and maximising commercial revenues’
To this end we provide three core services:
Purchasing
Commercial Development
Marketing Services
Collective purchasing on behalf of over 140 students' unions
NUS Services operates a purchasing consortium on behalf of member Students’ Unions. By working collectively, we achieve substantial economies of scale in key purchasing areas.
The financial benefits of being part of the consortium are a key way in which we provide our members with a competitive advantage.
Commercial development of students' unions
NUS Services has developed a range of services to support commercial activity in Students’ Unions.
This includes a range of promotional programmes for licensed and retail outlets, consultancy visits and training and development programmes.
Marketing Services
NUS Services provides marketing support to member Students’ Unions. In particular, recent focus has been on generating new income streams.
To this end, we recently launched NUS Extra, which has generated over £1 million of new income in 2006/07.
Benefits to students' unions
Last year we generated net benefits of £5.3 million for our members.
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