The workshop I chose to attend was about reform to NUS democracy and organising. The proposal was based on the ideas of NUS UK members across the UK to transform how the national union engages with and empowers its members across regions or nations. The goal is to create a new regional NUS England, in line with NUS Scotland, Wales and NUS USI, form flexible membership structures, strengthen international student voice, and set up an autonomous space for student liberation work. This basically means that there would no longer be a National President but rather Presidents in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. There would also be NUS England Vice Presidents for Further Education and Higher Education. The role of VP Liberation and Equality would sit under the liberation collective and be the only remaining UK-wide role.

The final policy on NUS democracy and organising is set to achieve the following:

• Students and Sabbatical Officers can engage in the development and delivery of national campaigns
• To increase the quality and quantity of student and Sabb engagement in policy making and elections
• To enable SU leaders to engage in effective accountability activities
• To ensure that members are empowered within nations, regions and liberation groups to determine their own priorities and ways of working together on national issues
• To maximise collective power by balancing nation and liberation autonomy with movement-wider power