Leeds Atheist Society

Tomorrow we have our first societies assembly. They have them grouped into various different assemblies, ours being the faith and cultural one. I have lots of issues to raise and we need to get our block booking and finance forms sorted. I’m interested to see just how bad the turnout is, all societies are supposed to send a representative but apparently about 20% of societies turn out.

I just got an email informing me that the society would be eligable to apply for funding in January which is great news as I thought we were going to have to wait until next September to be able to get union funding. This now presents the question of what we should apply for funding for. Apparently they wouldn

It’s official! Well actually it’s not. But I am reliably informed that we were approved at the societies assembly at Tuesday and are now a ratified society of the union. Go us!

Ok so here is what is going on. I’ve just been to speak to Jess (the societies officer for those not clear on that) who says that the petition goes to the Societies Exec rather than the Union Council and the next meeting for that is Tuesday so it will be considered then and they will be in contact on Wednesday to give me the decision.

This afternoon I went into the Exec office at the union and dumped the form on Jess’s desk. Hopefully everything is go for consideration at the next Union Council meeting. She wasn’t there at the time though so I’ll probably go back in tomorrow to check everything is good. One step closer though.

Things are happening. We now have a constitution and have finalised the aims and objectives and such so I am planning to sort everything out and go talk to Jess today. Hopefully it should be all sorted in time for the deadline to submit to the next Union Council meeting and get the society ratified.

Hmm, so hi all. It’s not been mega long since my last post though it has been over 2 weeks, 2 1/2 at least I think. Recently I have been absolutely drowning (and still am!) in coursework though. Well it’s time to renew efforts I think. Especially as it’s just a matter of finalising the aims and objects. Hopefully I’ll have that done by the end of this weekend.

Ok so here is where we are at. Claire has filled out all her details as a comittee member so if all goes to plan, Matt will do the same on Monday and I can take the petition to Jess who is the societies exec and will take it to the union council to get it ratified. We also need to finish off our aims and stuff before final submission though it

We have now got enough signatures to complete the petition to get official formation at Leeds University!

We’ve just launched or slightly modified website. It’s still one page but the page now looks prettier and it’s been moved to leeds.atheistsoc.org as the plan is to hopefully add more chapters at other universities and locations in the future (I’m dreaming big ).