Students' Union

Your Students’ Union

The great majority of the social and leisure activities at St George’s revolve around the Students’ Union (SU), which offers regular events such as comedy nights, film nights and discos.

As a St George’s student, you automatically qualify for Union membership with all the benefits that entails. You will be in very good company. Our members include physiotherapists, radiographers, nurses, medical students, biomedical science students, postgraduate students, St George’s and NHS Trust staff — all of whom regularly use the Union’s facilities. These include a large bar, games room, music room, snooker room, coffee shop and other common rooms and offices.

You also get the added benefit of being part of the National Union of Students (NUS) and University of London Union (ULU); not only for the support and advice they can offer, but for the social events you can take part in only 30 minutes away.

Sport for all

If you are into sport, you will be spoilt for choice at St George’s. Our hockey, rowing, football, netball, rugby union, cricket, fencing and many other teams are always on the lookout for new members. Whether you are international standard or have never played sport in your life, St George’s offers teams to suit your abilities. The majority of our sports teams play in the British University Association of Sport (BUSA) and ULU leagues and cups. There is also the added competition of the historic inter-medical school battles in the United Hospitals and National Medical Schools competitions.

The Robert Lowe Sports Centre on the St George’s site boasts several squash courts, aerobic training rooms, and two well-equipped weight-training rooms including free weights. In addition, a large sports hall is used for badminton, volleyball, netball, five-a-side football, cricket nets and other training activities.

Away from St George’s, rowing is available at Chiswick on the Thames and sailing is based at Royal Victoria Dock.

Run by students for students, we strive to provide the best possible choice of social and sporting activities and to make your life at St George’s as stress-free and pleasurable as possible.”

High society

If sport all sounds a bit too strenuous or you would simply like to balance physical activity with something a bit different, you can join one or more of St George’s many and varied societies. The arts are well represented by musical, drama and revue societies that produce regular shows. Other societies include Islamic, Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Adventure Sports, Modern Languages, Film and Photography. We also have many highly active and exciting societies for students who are interested in voluntary work within the local and wider community.

Apart from our Freshers’ Events, St George’s is also famed in university circles for its RAG week exploits. We regularly raise the highest amount of money per head for charitable causes of any university in the UK. The annual target is in excess of £100,000. The RAG Week, which is normally held in February, consists of varied events including traditional favourites such as the Valentine’s Disco, Auction and RAG Ball.

Run by students for students, we strive to provide the best possible choice of social and sporting activities and to make your life at St George’s as stress-free and pleasurable as possible. Furthermore, if we don’t offer a club or society then ULU probably will.

We look forward to seeing you during Freshers’!