Another Record Breaking Year for Clubs and Societies
Tuesday 11 Mar 2008
Imperial College Union is pleased to announce that involvement in our Clubs and Societies continues to grow with total memberships already past last year’s record number. Imperial College Union facilitates the running of 297 Clubs and Societies organising activities as diverse as Fellwandering to Knitting - the number of Clubs and Societies we have is growing too!
Already we have passed the 11,000 memberships mark for this academic year, meaning an average of 52 memberships processed every day! Last year in total we processed 10,604 for the entire year, so we are looking like beating that number by a long way this year. More students than ever are participating this year as well with a rise from 6,279 to 6,506 students joining one or more Club or Society. That’s 54% of all our students, meaning we have the highest student involvement in Clubs and Societies of any UK Higher Education institution, as well as the highest number of active Clubs and Societies, and memberships! This is something we are extremely proud of and consider to be a core activity of the Union; Student Activities.
A strong involvement in Clubs and Societies offers more than just social benefits to our students. Leadership skills, training and personal development complement our students’ already world-leading Imperial College London education adding important non-academic facets to increase their attractiveness to graduate employers.
This year we have also seen increased use of our online tools for Clubs and Society members and Officers with 60% of all memberships purchased online from imperialcollegeunion.org; that’s up from 47% last year. Online spending has also increased by over 64% (September - February year on year), partly driven by the suite of tools we recently launched allowing Clubs and Societies to add their own products quickly and easily online.
Once again none of this would be possible without the hard work of all our Officers who run all these Clubs and Societies. Don’t forget you can still join any of them by going online to imperialcollegeunion.org and browsing our A-Z!
Highlight Statistics
- 11,056 Memberships Processed - (28th February) - 10,604 in total last year
- 6,506 unique people have joined Clubs and Societies (6,170 are Imperial students)
- 54% of our students are Club and Society members
- 5,441 students are a member of 2 or more Clubs or Societies
- 1 student is a member of 14 Clubs and Societies!
- 297 Clubs and Societies
- 60% join online - 47% last year
- The average club has 37 members
- ArtSoc have the most members with 417
- The largest ACC (Athletics Clubs Committee) Club is Dance Club with over double the number of members than the second largest with 316
- Online spending is up over 64% in the period of September - February compared to that period last year
