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Welfare Committee

The aims and objectives of the Welfare Department are:

(a)    to oversee the activities of UMSU in areas related to Student welfare, including but not limited to Student poverty, racism, accessibility constraints, physical and mental health issues, marginalisation, discrimination and harassment;
(b)    to raise awareness of the diversity of Student experiences and ensure UMSU and the University are safe, accessible and respectful of diversity;
(c)    to liaise with Student service providers to ensure that all Students can participate fully in UMSU and the University;
(d)    to raise awareness of support services available for Students facing difficulties; and
(e)    to provide Students with awareness of safe-sex practices and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, and to distribute information on sexual health issues.

Current Membership

The Welfare Committee consists of the Welfare Officers as non-voting members and 7 voting members. The 2025 elected Welfare committee member have co-opted 3 additional non-voting members. The current members and the tickets they were elected on (if any) are:

Welfare Officers

Filia Cahyadi and Kunal Dewani (Community for UMSU)

Voting Members

Meet Varsani	Community for UMSU
Vinayak Kapoor	Community for UMSU
Ashley Lewis	Activate
Tsun Ying (Cynthia) Wong	Community for UMSU
Torrin Nundra-Tolonen	More for UMSU
Raechel Bobby	Community for UMSU

Non-Voting Members

Talya De Cleene

Udit Jain

Shambavi Gupta

Minutes

2025 Minutes

Meeting 1 - 23/12/24 - Unconfirmed

Minutes 1(25)

2024 Minutes

Meeting 1 - 22/12/23 - Confirmed

Minutes 1(24)

Meeting 2 - 16/1/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 2(24)

Meeting 3 - 13/2/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 3(24)

Meeting 4 - 4/3/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 4(24)

Meeting 5 - 15/3/24 - Confirmed

Mintues 5(24)

Meeting 6 - 28/3/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 6(24)

Meeting 7 - 15/4/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 7(24)

Meeting 8 - 3/5/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 8(24)

Meeting 9 - 17/5/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 9(24)

Meeting 10 - 27/5/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 10(24)

Meeting 11 - 1/7/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 11(24)

Meeting 12 - 26/7/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 12(24)

Meeting 13 - 9/8/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 13(24)

Meeting 14 - 27/8/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 14(24)

Meeting 15 - 13/9/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 15(24)

Meeting 16 - 8/10/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 16(24)

Meeting 17- 18/10/24 - Confirmed

Minutes 17(24)

Meeting 18 - 20/11/24 - Unconfirmed

Meeting 18(24)

2023 Minutes

Meeting 1 - 21/12/22

Meeting 2 - 27/01/23

Meeting 3 -

Meeting 4 - 23/03/23

Meeting 5 - 6/04/23

2022 Minutes

Meeting 1 - 08/12/22

Meeting 2 - 23/02/22

Meeting 3 -

Minutes 3(22)

Meeting 4 - 28/03/22

Meeting 5 - 25/04/22

Meeting 6 - 25/05/22

Meeting 7 - 22/06/22

Meeting 8 - 29/07/22

Meeting 9 - 24/08/22

2021 Minutes

Meeting 1 – 10/12/2020 via Zoom Minutes 1(21)

Meeting 2- 28/01/2021. Agenda 2(21)

Meeting 3- 19/02/2021. Agenda 3(21) Minutes 3(21)

Meeting 4. Minutes 4(21)

Meeting 5. Minutes 5(21)

Meeting 6. Minutes 6(21)

Meeting 7. Minutes 7(21)

Meeting 8. Agenda 8(21) Minutes 8(21)