ICU launches Student Experience Fund
Those awarded the highest sum (£65) will receive enough to cover over 98% of CSP memberships.
Imperial College Union (ICU) has created a fund to help students who would otherwise be unable to afford to take part in the Union’s activities and events.
Eligible students will receive a sum of money which can be spent on Clubs, Societies & Project (CSP) memberships and events, in addition to other Union events such as Summer Ball.
Home students on an Imperial Bursary with an annual household income of less than £60,000, will automatically receive an allowance from the fund.
The allowance will be credited to their Union accounts, and can be spent on purchases from the Union shop, with the exception of retail products such as merchandise.
Those awarded the highest sum (£65) will receive enough to cover over 98% of CSP memberships.
The fund is the brainchild of Dylan Hughes, 2022/23 Deputy President (Clubs & Societies).
Its announcement comes after ICU’s Clubs, Societies & Projects Culture Review last year, which set out long-term goals to improve the culture and experience of students at Imperial.
One of the goals put forward in that review was to create a fund to give all students the opportunity to participate in high-cost activities.
In future years, the Union says it intends to refine the fund to include all those who are less able to partake in student activities.
