Supporting You

Student Welfare is at the heart of everything we do. NSU exists to make sure you’re well looked after whilst you study and we made sure that in 2022 we continued our work to support students. We work closely with Student Support and Wellbeing, local councils, Police and the NHS services to ensure we provide a well-rounded support network for Northumbria students.

  • Took on 16 new Bazaar Mentors and 56 Mentees.

  • Delivered Mental Health First Aid training to 74 students.

  • Wan’s free massages had an average engagement of 17 students per session.

  • Established regular drop in sessions with Rape Crisis for students and staff with an average engagement rate of 3 students per session.

Delivered wellbeing and active bystander training to reps and societies.

40 Mentees completed the Bazaar Mentoring course (71.4% completion rate). Among these students' suicide scores decreased by 83% with anxiety decreasing by 73% and depression scores decreased by 71%. 

Launched Cost of living Clothing Swap shop which saw an average engagement of 30 students per session.

  • 980 new cases opened (17% increase)

  • 1002 Student Led Teaching Awards nominations received, allocating 14 awards.

  • Student participation in 7 programme reviews

158 in-person appointments recorded over the year - An increase of 52% from 93 appointments in 2021/22

First Student Engagement Forum (SEF) since October 2019, engaging with 641 students over three hours.