SRC Funding - Timeline of Events

Timeline

29-30 November, 2021

The AUU Executive, Board, and outgoing SRC Executive approve a restrictive funding agreement for the following year on the last day of the term.

16-18 February 2022

  • The SRC Publishes it’s Counter Guide to Facebook.

  • The AUU President, uses an article within to suspend any payments in relation to the Counter Guide.

  • In response, the SRC Condemns this action on Facebook

  • The AUU uses this as reason to begin thinking about suspending all funding to the SRC for the remainder of the year.

21 February 2022

  • The AUU Board holds a special meeting to deal with the SRC.

  • The AUU Board agreed unanimously to:

    • Suspend SRC funding with the possibility it be restored after 25 March if the SRC President and/or General Secretary attend a meeting.

    • Asks that the SRC pay it for Counterguide, placing the SRC in deficit.

    • The Board formally suspends the President’s Honourarium

21 February - 21 March 2022

  • The result of the Board vote is communicated with the SRC President, and General Secretary

  • To have any chance of restoring funding, they have to attend a meeting on 25 March at 12:00pm with the AUU President and Vice-President.

  • This is the time of the previously scheduled Student General Meeting, which the SRC was hosting.

  • Despite protestations, the AUU President only moves the meeting time by half an hour to 11:30am.

  • The AUU President additionally adds the stipulation for continued funding that an item at the Student General Meeting be withdrawn.

25 March 2022

  • The SRC President chairs the Student General Meeting.

  • The SRC General Secretary attends the meeting with the AUU President and Vice-President.

  • The AUU confirms that previously suspended funding will not be restored.