NUS Liberation Collective is our new UK-wide structure for student-led liberation groups (Trans, Women, Racialised, Disabled and LGBTQ) and any self-identifying students and apprentices wanting to organise for liberation campaigning.
We’ve been working on it for years and now you have the chance to be one of our founding members and collaborate with others to build a national network of liberation activists.
We’re focusing on identifying the best training and resources to organise while prioritising our members wellbeing. We’re also building our movement from the ground by mapping and engaging all student-led liberation groups and campaigners in the UK.
Join one of our co-design workshops where we’ll map your regional liberation network and develop collective practice and wellbeing strategies.
The first one will be in Glasgow in early October and we will be holding regional ones around the UK throughout October and November.
By early next year we will have a strong support network of hundreds of liberation activists ready to share best practice and campaign at a national level.
Background
Since reform in 2019 we’ve been working on how to move Liberation forward and find the best structure for our liberation groups (women, LGBT+, Black*, trans and disabled students). Through a consultation with SU leaders and liberation activists in 2022 we set a few principles for the future of NUS Liberation. As part of reform policies passed in all conferences during 2024, the project to set up the Collective was accepted and its implementation started. We're now on the first yeat of a 3 year plan to build the collective from the ground and develop collective practice together.
You can get involved by becomeing a founding member and helping us shape the Collective!
Principles
- Membership: any self-identifying student can join and meaningfully participate without having to go through elections.
- Collective care practice: students have the resources and training to make decisions together while prioritising wellbeing, personal liberation and healing from oppression.
- Decentralised resources and decision-making: the means to campaign and build power are distributed and shared across the student liberation movement.
- Recognised labour: paid Student Organisers to build and support the Collective.
Get involved
1. Sign up for email or WhatsApp updates to stay up to date with the Collective
2. Join a workshop near you
