Now that I’ve fully recovered from a 50+ hour week of SRA work and events, it’s time to write about it!
As you’ll know from previous posts, while the other exec members have been focusing on the awards night held on Thursday, I dealt with organising the SBES 2008 SRA stand.
Having had to blast up the M5 to Birmingham to make the 5:30 registration deadline (arriving at a timely 5:29) I had the chance to find our stand and register properly. From there to Staples, to print out some posters (which weren’t cheap, but a reasonable price and on good quality paper). A quick pizza and frantic mobile top-up (I’m still using PAYG!) I headed to Oxford for the night.
The Wednesday on the exhibition floor of the NEC Pavilion was very interesting: I’ll be interested to see the visitor numbers compared to last year, as it certainly felt quieter than 2007. However we still had the opportunity to promote student radio and the new I Love Student Radio campaign: more on that soon.
So to Thursday… and to the Student Radio Awards 2008.
As I’ve said before my involvement was minimal at best, predominantly focused on digitising the nominated entries to ease the judging process… I can now add filling the Global Radio attendee bags and going to the Global Radio tour of their Leicester Square studios (they’re doing some very impressive work there).
Onto the night itself… very impressed with the work Kate and Tim have done over the last few months and all credit to them for pulling off one of, if not THE best Student Radio Awards in its 13 year history. Mark’s speech to the VIPs seemed to go down well… as did the appearance of Jason Donovan thanks to Global Radio!
I can’t remember everyone I spoke to during the afterparty, though I’m particular pleased by the enthusiasm shown by both Nick Wallis (former SRA Chair) and Huw Stevens (the Awards Chair and Radio 1 presenter) towards the awards night and my plans for the next few months. I’m also pleased to have spoken to several students at the night: though my apologies if I missed you.
So following a 60+ hour week (working for dad on Monday driving around Gloucestershire, SBES and the awards… Newport-Birmingham-Oxford-Birmingham-Oxford-Reading & a 30min walk to the station-London-Reading-Birmingham-Newport over 6 days), I’m now back at working on some possible motions for our General Meeting next month and some alterations to our membership forms: all memberships expire on 31st December, so there’s some work to be done on sorting them out.
And I’m now in a position to work further on the factsheets, Survival Guide and a new project I’ll be launching at our next General Meeting. A few weeks back I had the opportunity to read every file I acquired from the previous Development Officer and Secretary. There’s eight years of ideas to consider and I’ve already listed the best of those… I’ll be working on those but I’m after more… I’ll explain how that’ll work once I’ve announced my plans and fully discussed them with the exec.
