About C&S

The Clubs & Societies department is the the biggest and definitely the mostly penguin-loving Department of UMSU. The C&S Officers and Clubs Committee look after more than 200 clubs that are affiliated to UMSU; this involves all the fun stuff: affiliating new clubs, approving grant applications, and providing clubs with the right training to help them manage their club in financial, administrative and food and alcohol-related ways. If you have any issues or queries regarding club shenanigans (how to start a club, organise an event, fill out different forms, or anything else at all), we’re the people to talk to, so feel free to drop in and have a chat!

clubs@union.unimelb.edu.au
(03) 8344 4834
Monday to Friday: 10.30am—4.30pm
Level 1, Union House, University of Melbourne, 3010 VIC

Meet the Office:

From left to right

Gunter the Penguin
Our department’s mascot, you should drop by for a #selfiewithGunter.
In a ‘complicated’ relationship with Tobias Trunke

Fiona Sanders
The C&S Coordinator aka clubs administrator Sanders.
The beating heart of the C&S department.

Gulsara Kaplun
Office Bearer 1 (OB1)
Your guide to the light side of the clubs

Kayley Cuzzubbo
Office Bearer 2 (OB2)
The one who is usually wearing the penguin onesie.

Meet the C&S Committee
The C&S Council on the 12th of October, 2016 elected the 2017 C&S Committee as follows:

Matthew Simkiss (Friends of Unnatural Llamas)
Nellie Seale (Melbourne University Potterheads)
Sarah Xia (International Relations Society)
Harry Adam (Labour Club)
Caleb Triscari (Media and Communications Society)
Marlo Zambelli (Arts Students Society)
Dorothy Coco Kircaldie Bowell (Science Students Society)

Provisional Declaration of Results: C&S Committee 2017 Election to fill casual vacancies

The C&S Council on May 16 elected two members to the C&S Committee to fill vacancies. One vacancy effective immediately, and one from June 23. Affirmative action applies as the first vacancy must be filled by a woman.

The nominations received at the Council were:

Raphael Canty (Italian Social Club)
Jefferson Villaeis (Habitat for Humanity)
James Denholm (Tabletop Gaming Society)
Dorothy Coco Kircaldie Bowell (Science Students Society)
Thomas Goodchild (Student Exchange Society)

After voting was conducted and the ballot counted, the following are provisionally declared elected (in order of election):

Thomas Goodchild
Dorothy Coco Kircaldie Bowell

However, as affirmative action must be fulfilled, Coco will fill the immediate vacancy, and Thomas will fill the future vacancy and become a member of the committee on June 23.

Anyone who wishes to appeal the decision may contact us in writing within 5 days. (clubs@union.unimelb.edu.au).

Declared by the Returning Officer on Wednesday May 17, 2017.

Fiona Sanders (C&S Coordinator)