In 2023, UCU Glasgow voted in favour of an annual donations pot and to publish a list of all agreed donations annually. For the 2023 – 24 academic year, the initial donation pot was agreed at £2,200. The amount will be revisited at the 2024 AGM.
If you are UCU Glasgow member and would like to propose a motion to donate money to a cause, please read the guidelines below.
So far (April 2024) the following donations have been made:
- £200 to #WeAreAllSue campaign (April GM)
- £250 to Goldsmiths UCU (April GM)
- £150 to Royal Society of Arts strike (February AGM)
- £100 to Muhammad Waris (February AGM)
- £250 to UCU Aberdeen over Modern Languages cuts (January GM)
- £300 to UHI UCU branch over strikes and job cuts (October GM)
- £300 to UCU Brighton over redundancies (October GM)
- £300 to EIS City of Glasgow college over redundancies (October GM)
- £300 save Black History studies at Chichester University campaign (October GM)
- £400 to EIS City of Glasgow college over redundancies (June AGM)
- £300 to UCU University of East Anglia Branch over threatened job cuts (June AGM)
Running total: £2,850
If you have any questions about this, please contact ucug@glasgow.ac.uk.
Donation guidelines for members
- All proposals to make a donation must be made as motions to a General Meeting.
- Like any other motion, you need a proposer and a seconder for your motion.
- Your motion should be no more than 150 words.
- If your motion is about an affiliation, rather than a donation, please specifically state if it is an annual affiliation fee, or a one-off payment.
- Submit your motion to ucug@glasgow.ac.uk including a link to the organisation you’d like to support, as well as bank account details – we cannot donate via crowdfunder/justgiving.
- The UCU Glasgow rules state that donations should be to charities or other bodies whose objects are consistent with those of the Branch.
- These are our current suggestions for the size of donation:
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- UCU Branch – £250
- Other trade union branch – £150
- Community organisation – £100