Our mission

Nottingham Trent Students' Union (NTSU) is a non-profit organisation affiliated with Nottingham Trent University (NTU).

We exist to represent NTU students and enhance their university experience from the moment they start their course.

Our mission

We empower students to make NTU the best academic and personal experience for themselves and others.

Our vision

Diverse communities of fulfilled students motivated to create positive change.

The values which guide us are

• Student-led
• Inclusive
• Supportive
• Forward thinking
• Ambitious

Our strategic commitments & objectives

We will advocate for the best educational experience for NTU students

• Enhance the quality of teaching and learning.
• Offering representation, advice and guidance to members ensuring NTU procedures are just and transparent.
• Supporting students' educational transitions.
• Embedding the good practices, attitudes and behaviours that our student staff require for future employment.

We will encourage healthy communities

• Facilitating student groups that reduce loneliness and isolation and promote wellbeing.
• Designing and managing Union spaces and services with health and well-being in mind.
• Engaging members in the design of strategies and services that support them.
• Encouraging mutual respect between our members and their local communities.

We will represent and celebrate our diverse membership

• Campaigning to close attainment gaps at the University and in society.
• Embedding under-represented groups in decision making and planning.
• Leading the conversation about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion on campus.
• Engaging with national policy agendas in the interest of all NTU students.

Our strategy will be enabled by

• Financial stability, generating surplus from our primary purpose trading activity for service innovation and reinvestment in our facilities.
• A people strategy that supports staff development, innovation and project-based working.
• A sustainable approach, strengthening the environmental dimension to our decision making.
• The use of technology for communication and service delivery to complement high quality face to face activities.
• The provision of equivalent services at all NTU campuses.

Trustee board

Our Board of Trustees is the highest decision-making body at NTSU. Their duty is to ensure that the charity (Nottingham Trent Students' Union) complies with our governing document and the law.

NTSU's Board is chaired by Trustee and NTSU President Libby Sinclair. They safeguard the vision and values of the Union, establish the organisation's strategic direction, and ensure it meets the needs of its members. 

Our trustees ensure NTSU strives for good operational practice and review and monitor the organisation's performance and progress towards its objectives. In addition, the trustees ensure the organisation works within its charitable purpose and complying with its governing document at all times.

Every trustee is responsible for this. Even if specific tasks are done by individual trustees, employees or volunteers, all trustees are responsible.  

Each trustee has their own experiences that collectively help the Board to carry out its role. They are all equal in terms of responsibility and fall into three categories:

• Officer trustees
• Student trustees
• Lay/External trustees

Officer Trustees

Libby Sinclair - President:

Libby Sinclair was elected NTSU President in July 2025. She leads the Executive Team and represents over 40,000 NTU students to the university, local community, and national organisations. Libby chairs the NTSU Board of Trustees and is also a member of the NTU Board of Governors.

• Chair of NTSU’s Board of Trustees: Oversees the strategic direction and governance of the Students' Union.
• Member of NTU's Board of Governors: Represents students at the highest level of university decision-making.
• Leads Campaigns on Student Housing and Safety: Advocates for more affordable housing, rent reductions, and improved safety measures across campus and city nightlife.
• Promotes Student Welfare and Accountability: Focuses on awareness of medical services, support schemes, and officer transparency.

Mischa Dooley - VP Education:

Mischa Dooley took up the role of VP Education in July 2025. She champions students’ academic needs across NTU and works closely with course reps and academic departments to ensure student voices are heard and acted upon.

• Attends Quality Assurance and Academic Standards Committees: Advocates for inclusive learning experiences and fair academic processes.
• Improving NECs and Access Statements:: Works to streamline processes so that students can access support quickly and confidentially.
• Supports Career Development: Promotes CV writing and interview preparation workshops to help students prepare for life after university.
• Focused on Employability and Equity::Committed to ensuring every student can access equal academic and professional opportunities.

Joe Cormack – VP Community and Welfare

Joe Cormack became VP Community and Welfare in July 2025. His work focuses on improving the wellbeing and safety of all students, from mental health support to housing advice.

• Chairs the Environmental, Social, and Governance Committee: Leads NTSU’s work on sustainability, ethical governance, and social impact.
• Sits on the Health, Safety, and Risk Committee: Works to ensure student welfare is prioritised in decision-making.
• Focuses on Mental Health and Night-time Safety: Delivers campaigns and partnerships to support safer environments for all students.
• Supports with Housing and Academic Wellbeing: Offers practical guidance for students navigating housing, stress, and university life.

Ryan Turner – VP Postgraduate

Ryan Turner was elected VP Postgraduate in July 2025. He represents the postgraduate student community, working to improve their academic experience, welfare, and engagement.

• Collaborates with VP Education and Student Voice Team: Supports academic reps and gathers postgraduate feedback across all schools.
• Advocates for Better Teaching and Engagement: Pushes for improvements in contact hours and reduced reliance on self-study.
• Focuses on Housing and Financial Support: Campaigns for better living conditions and financial incentives to boost student representation.

Ben Parker – VP Opportunities

Ben Parker was elected as VP Opportunities in July 2025. His role is to support NTSU societies, encourage student leadership, and make extracurricular activities accessible to all.

• Sits on Committees Supporting Student Life: Works across departments to expand society opportunities and improve student engagement.
• Empowers Society Committees: Delivers workshops, offers free socials, and introduces incentives for cross-campus collaboration.
• Bridges Academic and Social Life: Collaborates with VP Education to connect course content with society activity.
• Promotes Student-led Events and Campaigns: Provides societies with platforms to showcase their events and successes.

Jasmyn Smith - VP Sport:

Jasmyn Smith began her term as VP Sport in July 2025. She works closely with NTU Sport and NTSU clubs to deliver an inclusive, supportive, and exciting sporting experience.

• Promotes and Celebrates Sport Across Campuses: Runs initiatives like Club of the Month and shares success stories on social media.
• Supports Clubs in Varsity and Beyond: Works to increase participation and make sports events more accessible.
• Champion for Mental Health in Sport: Collaborates with Student Minds to provide training for committee members.
• Experienced in NTU Sport: With a background in NTU Cheer and Dance, she brings deep understanding of student-led sport and wellbeing.

Paige Skelland – Brackenhurst Officer

Paige Skelland joined the Board of Trustees as Brackenhurst Officer in July 2025. She represents students based at NTU’s rural campus and works to ensure their voices are heard across the Union and University.

• Champion for Brack Students: Advocates for more accessible services, inclusive opportunities, and better transport links, including night bus improvements.
• Represents Underrepresented Voices: Focuses on engaging quieter students and encouraging greater involvement in campus life.
• Drives Cross-Campus Collaboration: Works with officers and societies to build stronger links between Brackenhurst and other campuses.
• Committed to Community and Belonging: Strives to create a welcoming, supportive environment for all Brack students.

Student Trustees

Nikita Shefner

Nikita is a student studying Politics and International Relations. He works in the School of Social Sciences and has an interest in examining the policymaking process at the foreign and domestic level. 

Nikita began his engagement with NTSU in his first year of study. Working as a Course Representative, Nikita attended School Forum meetings, Course Committee's, alongside termly NTSU Union Meetings, making sure that student voice is represented front and centre. Nikita became a student trustee at the end of his first year, formally accepting the position in June 2024. 

Nikita had this to say following his appointment to the trustee board: "It is a great honour to be asked to join the Board of Trustees. I'm very excited to be a part of the NTSU family and I cannot wait to officially start working in this role this coming autumn!

I've completed my training for the position, and I've already observed one trustee board meeting. Student voice and diversity are one of the core pillars of NTSU and I promise to safeguard these principles whenever we vote on any motion at the Board or Committe level. 

External Trustees

Geoff Love - University Appointed Trustee

Geoff Love was formerly Chief Executive Officer of Commify, Europe's leading business messaging solutions provider. After leading a management buyout of Nottingham-based Esendex, he partnered with private equity to create the Commify group of companies. Working with over 35,000 businesses worldwide and with turnover approaching €100m, Commify's mission is to 'make business communication brilliant'. The group operates around a dozen global brands from its Nottingham headquarters.

After graduating from Sheffield University with a degree in Business Studies, Geoff started his career in retail banking, specialising in marketing, where he held many senior roles with the likes of Lloyds TSB and Alliance & Leicester. He was Customer Marketing Director of HomeServe and a member of its UK board, seeing its sales increase tenfold during his tenure before swapping insurance for software.

Geoff lives in Nottingham with his two teenage children and wife, a senior lecturer at NTU.

Kudzai Muzangaza (Deputy Chair)

Kudzai is a Principal Auditor and Chartered Accountant (ACA) at Capital One UK. He is responsible for the execution of risk based internal audits across the Capital One UK and Canada card businesses covering a suite of activities which include Customer Service, Risk Operations, and Legal and Governance.

He is a graduate of the University of Lincoln, having completed a degree in Psychology and was the President and Chair of the Board of Trustees for the University of Lincoln Students' Union. Kudzai completed his training with PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) and was heavily involved in the internal audits of Higher Education organisations, charities and publicly listed companies.

Outside of work Kudzai is an avid music and Formula 1 fan. He currently splits his time between Nottingham and London.

Dr Georgie Benford

Dr Georgie Benford is an Associate Head of School at the University of West England, Bristol. She is a Criminologist and academic leader with a wide range of educational governance experience. Georgie joined the board in June 2023, but her first experience of trusteeship within an SU, was as a Sabbatical at Loughborough University. Returning to this sector she hopes to make an impact on NTSU's sustainability, wellbeing and equality agenda.

Board Summaries 

Your campus

Use the links below to learn more about NTSU's facilities and services on your campus.

Our social media

We always have lots going on you can get involved with. The best way to keep up to date with our events, campaigns, and offers is to follow our socials.

Main NTSU channels

Follow these accounts for NTSU-related info and offers:

Instagram

TikTok

Clifton Campus

Follow this Instagram account to find out what's happening on Clifton Campus

Brackenhurst Campus

Follow this Instagram account to find out what's happening on Brackenhurst Campus

NTSU Entertainments

Follow these accounts for events info, updates, and offers:

Instagram

TikTok

Website

Trent Freshers

Keep up-to-date with all our official Freshers announcements, including event info and tickets here:

Official Trent Freshers website

Meet other new NTU students in Trent Freshers communities

Equality and Diversity Facebook groups

Community groups for students from a range of different demographics to share their experiences and find advice and support.

Student Parents and Carers 

Ethnic Minorities 

Mature, Postgraduate and Non-Traditional Learners 

Gender and Sexuality 

International Students 

Disabled Students 

Halls Groups

If you are living in halls this year, joining one of these groups is a great way to meet the people you’ll be sharing them with.

Contact us

City Campus

Nottingham Trent Students' Union  

Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, NG1 4GH 

0115 848 6200  |  info@su.ntu.ac.uk

City reception open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

How to get here 

Clifton Campus 

Nottingham Trent Students' Union  

NTU Clifton Campus, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS 

0115 848 6200 |  info@su.ntu.ac.uk 

Clifton reception open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm (term-time only)

How to get here 

Brackenhurst Campus 

Nottingham Trent Students' Union  

NTU Brackenhurst Campus, Brackenhurst Lane, Southwell, NG25 0QF 

0115 848 6200  |  info@su.ntu.ac.uk 

Brackenhurst NTSU office open Mon-Thurs 10am-4pm  (term-time only)

How to get here 

Need help? Ask us anything

Here at NTSU, we strive to promote, embed, and champion equality, diversity, and inclusion—a crucial part of our values. 

We pride ourselves on having a positive, proactive, and informed attitude to accessibility and strive to provide the best possible experience on-campus and online for all our members.

Here's an overview of recent work we have carried out to improve accessibility regarding our venues and services. We continuously review our processes and improve our facilities to allow for better inclusivity. If you have any suggestions or comments, please get in touch.

Website accessibility button

We offer a wide range of accessibility and language support tools via the Recite Me accessibility tool found at the top of our website. This tool supports the 20% of the population who may encounter barriers when exploring our website due to a disability, learning difficulty, visually impartment, or if English is their second language. 

The assistive toolbar includes screen reading functionality, multiple reading aids, customisable styling options, and on-demand live translation.

Our spaces

NTSU is accessible with lift access and/or ramps across all floors on campuses with multiple floors and levels at Clifton and City. There are also accessible toilets across all three of our buildings at City, Clifton and Brackenhurst.  

You can find the full accessibility details of our spaces here via AccessAble. The stage spaces at Clifton and City are currently stair access only.  

You can also view online maps, floor plans and route planners through the MazeMap App on Google Play, Apple App Store or online:

Clifton Students' Union – The Point/Benenson & DH Lawrence

City Students' Union - Byron

Brackenhurst Students' Union – Main Hall

Accessible toilets

Our venues have accessible toilets. You can find the full breakdown of locations on Maze Maps and AccessAble.

Some of these in our bar and nightclub spaces are RADAR key locked. Venue management or security staff will be able to give you access if required.

Join our Disability and Accessibility Network 

The network is a community of students who come together to share experiences as disabled students and organise events and campaigns designed to improve the university experience of the students in their demographic. 

You can join here 

Evacuation policy

Staff and Security teams are trained and on hand for assistance in emergency or first aid incidents. City and Clifton venues include refuge points with communication links on the first floor upwards. They also include evacuation chairs which trained Staff and Security teams can use if immediate evacuation is required. (These should only be used by trained staff.)

Strobe lighting

Events in our venues include strobe lighting and other lighting and haze-based effects. 

We also hire our venues out to other users and promoters who may have their own production effects outside our control. Please contact us at the earliest opportunity if you would like any guidance regarding a specific event.   

Tell us what we are missing

We appreciate that there is always more to be achieved to ensure a truly accessible and equitable online and on-campus offer for all students. Therefore, if there is something you think could be improved or you have any issues, please reach out to us in person, through our socials or via email.

We take sustainability seriously — in how we run the Union and how we support students to live lighter. Explore the areas below to see what we are doing, our current strategy, and simple actions you can take today.

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Public Strategy Planner

Carbon Footprint

Our carbon footprint allows us to identify our biggest areas of negative impact on the environment. Our footprint is calculated in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e). In 2023/24 our total carbon footprint was 1850 tCO2e, this has slightly increased from our previous reporting year however we have largely increased our business activity.

Interested in finding out more? Take a more in-depth look at our 2023/24 carbon report below.

Find out how we calculate our carbon footprint here .

Carbon Reports

Sustainability Reports

SAG:

The sustainability advisory group is a staff and student board who come together to discuss sustainability related issues within the SU. It comprises of student staff members and staff from all areas of the SU.

The aim of SAG is to ensure cohesion across the organisation in working towards the common goal of being environmentally conscious. Through providing our staff and student staff with a platform to discuss sustainability issues within all departments at the SU, we can use the combined effort to drive forward change and embed it into all future development.

The link to the outcomes from our last meeting is here .

ISO14001 through EcoCampus

We are currently on our journey to becoming accredited with ISO14001 through the EcoCampus scheme. ISO14001 is an international standard for Environmental Management Systems (EMS). These are frameworks that allow organisations to put systems and processes in place to ensure business activity acknowledges the negative environmental impacts it has. It ensures procedures are in place to minimise these impacts as much as possible so that the future of the organisation works as environmentally beneficially as possible.

Why is having an EMS beneficial?

• Allows us to demonstrate legal compliance
• Evidences action being taken to reduce our environmental impact
• Demonstrates control of high-risk activities
• Identifies opportunities for improvement
• Ensures continual improvement for the organisation

Working with EcoCampus

We are working with the EcoCampus programme to reach our accreditation. EcoCampus provides support, training and resources to aid educational institutions in implementing a fully working EMS. There are four stages to reaching ISO14001 accreditation within EcoCampus – Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. We are currently awarded Gold and have our Platinum audit coming up.

Gaining certification assures that NTSU systems help to effectively manage and mitigate environmental impacts and reach our environmental objectives.

• As part of our EMS it is essential to set out Environmental Objectives to measure progress and identify key areas for improvement. Access those here.
• Our EMS is available to all of our staff and students, with the EMS Handbook detailing the scope of our EMS and all of our processes and procedures. Staff and students can access the EMS handbook here.

Learn more about Student Life Pulse

NTSU is committed to creating diverse communities of fulfilled students motivated to create positive change. To help us reach this goal, we are proud members of Student Life Pulse, an online survey used by Students’ Unions across the UK, representing the views of over 20,000 students each year.

What is Student Life Pulse?

Student Life Pulse is an insight survey which tracks the experience of our students throughout the academic year. Between October and June, you will receive an email inviting you to take part by completing the online survey. You will only receive the invite in one month so make sure you take the opportunity to give your views and have your voice heard.

We want to hear from as many students as possible, whatever their experience or knowledge of the Students’ Union is - every view matters.

The benefit to you of taking part

We know your time is valuable and that’s why students who take part will be up for the chance to win one of 5 £100 vouchers available throughout the year as a thank you for taking part. If you’re one of the lucky winners, you can choose from an Amazon, Tesco, Love2Shop or NTSU commerical outlet voucher.

Student Life Pulse helps us plan the services and support we offer you. Every student who takes part is helping to improve the university experience for themselves and other students.

Your personal data is safe

Alterline, an independent research agency, is our partner for this survey. Alterline follows all guidelines for data privacy and security. It only has enough information about you to conduct the research. Any information you disclose will be treated in the strictest confidence, and the results are anonymised, so no answers are attributable to any individuals. You can read their General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) policy here.

Want to know more?

If you have any questions about the research, please email NTSU's Director of Membership Services, Hannah Templeman.