About the Marketing and Communications Department

What we do:

• We work on marketing activities on a national level with discount partners, external organisations and student organisations.
• We aim to raise the profile of NUS.
• We offer students effective ways to easily engage in our campaign work.
• We promote NUS and students’ union membership to students.

How we do it?

• We generate NUS Card discounts for students to access throughout the county with their NUS Card or local union card.
• Independent research has calculated that the NUS Card is worth £48 to the average student and in 2002 students saved an estimated £134 million with student discounts.
• The NUS website, nusonline.co.uk, allows students to access national information on student issues, advice and news.
• We also plan, create and operate specialist campaign sites, such as stopfeesnow.com to advance specific campaigns. These sites are increasingly focused on enabling students to participate in NUS campaigns online.
• We work on nusonline.co.uk to offer officers and students a range of facilities. These include up-to-the-minute information on NUS campaigns, education news, forthcoming events, student advice, officer resources, exclusive competitions and discount offers.
• We produce monthly e-newsletters to students registered to nusonline.co.uk to update them on student issues and encourage them to participate in student activities.
• We produce the NUS magazine ‘The Motive’ for student officers to learn what is going on in the student movement and we also send out NUS fortnightly mailings to keep you up to date on NUS events, campaigns and issues.
• We produce promotional materials to promote NUS and students’ union membership to students.

Working together: achieving the best results:

The NUS Marketing and Communications department supports officers at a local level such as:

• We are able to provide advice and guidance on marketing and website issues and information on the student market to students’ union officers and staff.
• We are able to provide guidance on negotiating local discounts in your area.
• Advise you on your own marketing campaigns.

Officers that we help and support on a regular basis:

Communications Officers, Presidents and Finance Officers

To contact us, please call 020 7272 8900 or email marketing.office@nus.org.uk