The ‘You Are More Than’ campaign has been organised to offer you events and activities to help you de-stress and relax away from your studies. Even if you do not have deadlines in January, the campaign is a great chance to try out a new hobby (yoga anyone?!) for FREE on campus.

We have aimed to organise events across the different University campuses for your convenience, but students are welcome to attend any of our events wherever you are based.

Here is what we are offering Winchester students:

Thursday 14^th  January

Waste Craft
The Café, Winchester School of … Read the rest

If you cast your mind back to this time last year, we held a Petting Zoo as part of Stress Less Fest (now known as ‘You Are More Than’) to give you a chance to de-stress and relax away from your studies. There were sheep, goats, chickens and even these adorable ducks to rid you of your deadline woes and study blues.

Well, we have some good news for you. The Petting Zoo is back due to popular demand! We understand that you want to do well at University, but it is important to remember that sometimes it is helpful … Read the rest

You are more than…

Your degree. Your thesis. Your portfolio. Your placement.

Whoever you are, whatever you’re studying, we’re here for you.

Throughout January, we will be running a wide variety of events and activities to support students during what can often be a stressful time.

Highlights will include yoga/relaxation classes to help you de-stress and focus, and the chance to take some time out and interact with some furry friends! A Chill Out Space will be set up in the Concourse, so come and put your feet up and enjoy some games and box sets.  Or take yourself off … Read the rest

We’ve been asking our talented students at WSA for their contributions to our adult colouring book – and you have certainly not disappointed!

Here are just a couple of the templates we have received, which will be used to put together a colouring book for our upcoming Stress Less Fest. As you can see, even ‘Susu’ the cat has made her way in!

With the onset of deadlines looming, January can be a stressful time for students and our Stress Less Fest will be running to offer support and advice … Read the rest

Exam season is looming and, as always, our Stress Less Fest will be running throughout January to offer you plenty of support and ways to cope with the pressure of deadlines.

This year has seen a massive rise in adults buying colouring books after it was proven they can reduce stress and help you to wind down – so now we are jumping on the bandwagon and creating our own colouring book especially for you!

We are enlisting the help of our creative students over at WSA and asking for your illustrations to help us put together a colouring book … Read the rest

You’ve experienced the petting zoo, and met the puppies, but now we have another update about this year’s Stress Less Fest activities.

The final part of this year’s Stress Less Fest will be the Results Hub, which will be the one-stop-shop to all your post-exam needs. By this we don’t mean we’ll be providing beer (but the Stags’ will be open if you do want that!), but over at the Results Hub there will be specially trained SUSU Peer Supporters as well as the SUSU Advice Centre advisers and representatives from Enabling Services and the Visas and Immigration Student Advice … Read the rest

We kicked off the ever-popular Stress Less Fest for 2015 two weeks ago today – while many of you are now celebrating having made it through your exams, we know that there are still plenty of you soldiering on night and day in the library. Don’t worry – there’s plenty of events still to come this week to make sure you Stress Less about those impending exams.

SO FAR WE’VE SEEN…

We kicked off the season with a session on handling Academic Stress, helping you manage your exam anxiety, and held our first Results Hub last Tuesday, so you could … Read the rest

Everyone wants to Stress Less, so make sure you leave time for these little perks during the hand-in period! From May 11 – May 29, SUSU will be bringing some fantastic Stress Less events to Winchester School of Arts (WSA.) First up: on 11 May you can take advantage of a helpful visit by a SUSU Adviser who will be coming to WSA to offer advice on your concerns and work or housing  and finance stresses.  Then, on May 12, we will be launching the Shift Your Stuff event, which is a quick and easy way of getting rid of … Read the rest

…which roughly translates to: “exam season is back!” But no worries, here at SUSU we’ve got a few bits and pieces organised to keep you sane throughout the exam period. Between 12 and 23 January, we’ll be holding our infamous Stress Less Fest on campus. With exam period commencing that very week, this is a timely opportunity to battle stress-levels university-wide.

First things first, you’ve got to stay healthy and eat well during the revision period, so we’ve got a huge stock of bananas that we’ll hand out every day in the entrance of Hartley Library from 12 – 16 … Read the rest

Back by popular demand: from May 19 – May 23, SUSU will be holding its infamous Stress Less Fest on campus.

With exam period commencing that very week, this is a timely opportunity time to battle stress-levels university-
wide. Many students will be pleased to hear about the return of the Petting Zoo and Bungee Runs on the

Redbrick. The fun-filled week will kick off with the distribution of free bananas and some helpful wellbeing

advice between 11 and 2 on May 19.

This will then be followed by the Petting Zoo on the Redbrick (at long last!), between 11 … Read the rest