SUS is a social enterprise and has four key aims: to generate income for the main charity, to provide excellent safe and reliable commercial services to the members, to provide employability opportunities to the members and to involve members of hard-to-reach groups within the wider SU membership.
As a social enterprise, SUS is bound by SU policy.
The company's operations are led by the Union's Deputy Chief Executive who also sits on the company's board as a Non-Executive Director.
The formal legal oversight of the company is the responsibility of the Company Directors who are the five full-time Officers. They meet once a year at the company AGM to approve the accounts and to appoint auditors. The Waterfront is legally a separate company, Waterfront Ltd, but it is managed and operates within SUS.
In the autumn of 2015, we instituted exciting changes to SUS' structure.
We have Student Managers in each section of the commercial operation whose task is to listen to members' feedback and ideas and work on development plans and improving the way we do things
We also have two Development and Oversight Boards one for retail and catering and one for bars and gigs. The Board's job is to look at how our services are working and how we can develop them to provide the best services possible for our members.
The Boards meetings are not as formal as those of conventional company boards and there are 4 to 6 a year.
The Boards are made up of full-time Officers, SU staff, the Student Managers, student staff representatives and students. The student members are elected at the start of the autumn term. If you are interested in the way big commercial operations work or would like to improve the service in the bars or gigs; this might be your ideal opportunity.
For more information contact su.governance@uea.ac.uk.