8.2 Your Students' Guild

Here in HASS we work closely with the Students’ Guild to ensure you get the most out of your time at Exeter. Every student is automatically a member (it’s free), and being a member opens up many opportunities for you. The Guild staff have been working hard to develop activities and services for Welcome Week and beyond, with many student societies also running events. You can check the Guild's Welcome Hub for further details.

The Guild has over 300 different societies, and we strongly encourage you to explore our website to find groups and activities that match your interests. There really is something to suit everyone (yes, even the introverts amongst you!) and connecting with other students is the key to beginning to feel at home here. 

If you don't get to try a society taster during Welcome Week, there will be more opportunities in the first 6 weeks of term to meet societies and try something new. You can join societies at any point during the year!

The Guild also has an Advice Team where you can get free, confidential guidance on areas as diverse as your finances, accommodation, welfare, and academic issues such as appeals, mitigation and misconduct. The Guild also offers specific support to students who are parents, carers, care leavers, asylum seekers, refugees, or are estranged from their families, so if this is you please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the Advice Service team to find out more.

All of these amazing services and resources are supported by elected Guild Officers, who are elected by students each year to focus on your most important issues. Your Officers can’t do their job without you, so make sure to let them know how you’re finding your time at Exeter. Whether you’ve got a change you’d like to see or you want us to start doing something, you can get in touch with them via email. You can find all the contact details on the Meet your Officers page.

All students at Exeter are part of a community – from your academic department and the local community of Exeter, to numerous student-led communities and networks – and the Students’ Guild exists we’re here to make the voice of your community heard on the issues that matter to you. Every course has a student rep – there to collect feedback from their coursemates and work with departments to make any changes and improvements to your academic experience.  Find out more about how to become a rep in the next section.

Whilst you are here at Exeter, we are also here to inspire you to feel and be yourselves, find your people, your passion and your place.  Our communities are student led and by sharing their experiences with us, help to ensure we’re doing everything we can to loudly and proudly support our diverse student community so that everybody feels like they belong.  

We’ve created space for our student-led communities to connect, make those lifelong friendships and above all feel that Exeter is somewhere we can all call home.