As a society or sports club, you can have a large influence on campus.

This endorsement process enables you to get involved and have your say in who should run your Students' Union. Endorsing a candidate means that as a society / sports club, you believe that they would be the best candidate for the role, and your group supports their manifesto.

This means that you can use your society / sports club platforms to openly support the candidate.

Any breach of this process could result in an investigation against the candidate and/or the student group.

The process: 

• Decide if you as a group want to consider endorsing any candidates.
• You cannot endorse candidates until they have been officially announced on the 17th February and you can read all candidate manifestos which can be found on the SMSU website.
  • You cannot be contaced regarding endorsements prior to Digital week starting (12:00, 17th February).
• Between the 17th-28th February, the endorsing process occurs. You must hold a democratic meeting online with your committee to discuss if/who you would like to endorse. You can only endorse one candidate per role.
• Only full members of the committee can take part in the vote. Associate members cannot take part in the vote.
• There must be majority agreement of the committee. If a candidate(s) is part of the committee, the decision must be made without presence or influence of that candidate(s).
• A minimum of 2 eligible committee members must be part of the vote, if the result is a draw, the student group cannot endorse.
• Complete the form here to finalise group endorsement process. From the point the form is completed, endorsing can commence.
• You can decide to endorse at any point during digital week + voting week which runs from 12:00 on 17th February - 12:00 (midday) on 28th February.

Make sure to read the endoresment rules & regulations before deciding to endorse. The form will go live once digital week commences.