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What is the Wishing Well?

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The Wellbeing Zone’s Peer2Pier project is all about getting students involved in the S.U. through volunteering and running your own campaigns and projects.To make this as easy as possible, the Wishing Well is available for you to access money to fund a campaign, and you can bid for up to £250 per project! The mission of UBSU is “empowering students” and this is exactly what the Wishing Well is designed to do – give you the resources you need to make a difference to life for Brighton Uni students.

If you have an idea for a project or campaign that you want to run and would like funding for, then the Wishing Well is for you!

 

What have students said about using the Wishing Well?

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"I was very pleased with how the event went and very grateful to everyone who came along. Particular thanks go to the Student Union Wellbeing Team who helped me to organise everything through their Wishing Well funding. I didn't know that this funding existed until I contacted them and having never organised an event before didn't really know how to go about it. In hindsight, all you really need is an idea that you have a passion for that can potentially help other students and the SU Team advised me how to do the rest. "
Matt Callard

 

 Find out more

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To find out more about Wishing Well please download this document:

Wellbeing Zone Wishing Well

 

Applying to the Wishing Well

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To apply to the Wishing Well please download our Wishing Well application form:

Wishing Well Application Form

 

Once you have completed the application form please email it to peer2pier@brighton.ac.uk or post it to the address on the form and we can get started on assessing it!

 

Contacting us

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If you have any questions you can email peer2pier@brighton.ac.uk or call us on 01273 643044 

 

    

 

Wishing Well Projects 2011/2012

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The Untouchables - fighting retouching:saving real bodies
The Untouchables is a Wishing Well campaign run by Kerry Grainger, an MA Photography student at the University of Brighton. The campaign aims to create a photographic collection of real, un-retouched bodies to promote positive body image and fight back against the images of "beauty" which are portrayed by the media. Find out more here

The Freedom of Speech
The release of the film the King's Speech has put the issue of speech impairment in the public eye more than ever before. Matt Callard (University of Brighton student) spoke about how he is working to overcome his stammer, along with Anne Blight who will spoke about the work of local speech therapy course The Starfish Project. Find out more here

LGBTea Party
During Freshers’ Week the Wellbeing Zone and LGBrighTon Society organised the LGBTea Party - an afternoon of meet and greet activities which was a big success and attended by 75 students. It provided students the opportunity to meet new people and find out more about local support services both on campus and in Brighton and Hove. 

Students with dependants/mature students' coffee afternoon
The coffee afternoon was a chance for students to meet each other and have a chat over a nice cuppa. Free tea, coffe and cakes were provided and students had the chance to meet poeple and create a socail support network of other students. We hope to set this up as a regular event next year.

 

 

Wishing Well Projects 2010/2011

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The Wishing Well events this year were a great success, both for the students running them and those who came along on the day! Applications were made by several students including Wellbeing Convenors and students who have never been involved with the Students’ Union before.

Art of Giving

The Art of Giving workshop was designed to give students feelings of happiness and wellbeing through the act of giving to others. The workshop provided time, space and materials for students to design and make cards for loved-ones. There was also a badge-making activity where students made a badge with positive words or images on and then exchanged these with others by placing them in the “Bucket of Love”.

 

I’m Marvin’

I’m Marvin’ was a food celebration event. Volunteers were raising awareness of the benefits of healthy eating through juicing demonstrations, and giving out free juice samples containing fruits and vegetables which increase energy and concentration levels. We also gave advice on how to shop for healthy foods on a tight student budget, with the winners of our “Guess the price of the basket” competition winning a juicer for themselves!

 

Students with dependents coffee morning

The coffee morning was suggested by the Wellbeing Convenor for students with dependents, as a solution to the issue that many students experience of feeling isolated from others at university. Volunteers and staff worked together to run a coffee morning at which students with dependents could meet each other, have a chat and bring children along too.