Hi, my name is Helen Ainscough I’m a third year student studying BA Painting at Camberwell.

I am running for Welfare Officer because I think there is lots of room for improving the mental health services provided by our university. The interpersonal skills I have developed throughout my degree with staff and students makes me a great candidate for this role.

 I am organized and friendly and want to put student’s concerns and worries at the heart of what I do. 

UAL’s current services to students (the hardship fund, the disability allowance and the counselling service) could be improved if students are made aware of them and helped in their application process.

My overall goal as welfare officer would be to make these services more accessible and familiar to students. I would do this by fighting for more funding and holding sessions to explain the application process to students. 

If elected I aim to:

• Improve the wait time for counselling

• Reorganise how the mental health services are advertised to students, and make all services more familiar by face-to-face meetings about what the university can offer

• Hold drop-in sessions to explain the hardship fund application, disability allowance application and help students filling it out

• better the communications between students and tutors on mental health, tutors should be introducing the mental health services and hardship fund to students from their first year and throughout each term

Thank you for reading my manifesto, please contact me if you have any questions or ideas about my proposed objectives at:

h.ainscough0320171@arts.ac.uk