Event examples

 

Below are some examples of events that have either been held in the past, or continue to take place at some point in the year. If you are interested in replicating or participating in one of the events listed, please contact the Wellbeing Assistants via email: studentwellbeingchampions@manchester.ac.uk.

  • Meet the services event
  • Faculty Postgraduate Welcome

  • Sustainability Challenge

  • Film Screening

  • Peer Mentoring

  • Welcome Curry

  • Postgraduate Student Social

  • Second hand bike scales

  • Welcome events

  • British Culture Presentation 

  • UV Sports event

  • Games Tournament

  •  

    Understanding British Culture
  • Puppy room and guide dog fundraising

  • Student Experience Fair

  • Faculty PGR BBQ

  • Homesickness social event

  • Welcome week buffet and wine event

  • Industrial Experience Pizza Night

  • Stellify at Fallowfield

  • Speed networking event with potential employers

  • Peer Assisted Study Sessions (P.A.S.S) Activities

  • Volunteer taster sessions in the local community

  • Dentistry Postgraduate Welcome Dinner

  • World Mental Health Open Day Workshops

  • Missing Mum!

  • Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering Careers Fair

  • Stellify Event 

  • World Mental Health Day

  • Careers Fair

  • Volunteer Fair

  • Law Fair/ Postgraduate Study Fair

  • Transgender Day of Remembrance

  • Support for students staying in Manchester over Christmas

  • Carol Service

  • Milk and Honey Christmas Party

  • Thankyous for Volunteering

  • Refresher's Fair

  • Chinese New Year party

  • Student Volunteer Week

  • My Future Fest

  • Offer Holders Facebook Group

  • Volunteer of the year Awards

  • Year 2 Farewell Event

  • Postgraduate Conference

  • Graduate Careers Fair

  • Global Graduates

  • Y4 induction

  • Meet the professionals

  • Manchester Graduate Talent Scheme

  • Peer Support Heroes

  • Returner's Social Event

  • PGR Parents Group

  • Green Impact Team

  • Commuter Breakfast Clubs

  • Health Promotion

  • The Manchester Network

  • Disciple

  • Milk and Honey volunteer introduction

 

  • Meet the dogs & fundraising for guide dog association
  • British Heart Foundation Pop up shops
  • Volunteering and Social Justice Fair
  • ResLife Advisor Elections (voting)
  • Student Volunteering Week
  • Volunteering Week: thank you to volunteers
  • Give it, Don't Bin it
  • Give it, don't bin it campaign
  • Team Uganda advertising
  • Team Uganda Trip
  • Give it, Don't Bin It
  • ResLife Advisor Elections (nominations)
  • Donation points for charity
  • Basic life support (BLS)
  • Rep Focus Groups
  • Bake sales for charity
  • Period Poverty Box
  • Look after your mate

  • Poetry slam
  • Note taking workshop
  • Introduction to mindfulness workshop
  • Mindfulness Sessions
  • Mindfulness for concentration workshop
  • Managing procrastination workshops 
  • Making the most of your mind 
  • Reducing the stress of perfectionism
  • Challenging unhelpful thinking habits workshop
  • Self-defence sessions
  • Morning Yoga Session
  • Managing academic pressure workshop
  • City Sight Seeing Run and photo competition
  • Finding motivation workshop 
  • Reducing the stress of perfectionism
  • Challenging unhelpful thinking habits workshop
  • Get Prepared: managing exam stress workshop
  • Bee Love
  • Writers Group
  • Muse Headbands
  • Managing procrastination workshops
  • Candlelit Yoga for Advent
  • Dentistry Postgraduate Christmas gathering
  • Reducing the stress of perfectionism
  • Challenging unhelpful thinking habits workshop
  • Revision Refresh Sessions
  • Time to talk day (coffee and crafts)
  • Understanding your strengths workshop
  • Community Festival Fallowfield
  • Photography competition
  • Exam Extra (Library support)
  • Deck chairs in the quad- North Campus
  • Peer Support photo competition
  • Mindfulness Sessions
  • Unit health checks
  • Mindfulness Drop ins
  • Film Club
  • Great Escape: Walking for Wellbeing
  • Creating a "chill out" space within the space
  • A mindful life
  • Walter Carrol lunchtime concert: Oriental breeze

  • National Fitness Day
  • Mindful Movement Sessions
  • Try before you buy
  • Staff- Student football match
  • Dissertation de-stress sessions with muse headbands
  • Great Escape: Yoga
  • Be Active Programme
  • Sporticipate (Weekly Sessions)
  • Running Club
  • 'Learn to' Sport sessions
  • National Skipping Day
  • Campus Sport Tournament
  • Tree Trail Walk
  • Summer Sport Programme
  • Peer Support Dodgeball
  • Social Justice Photography Competition
  • Employability Outdoors mindfulness activity
  • Ballroom and Latin for beginners
  • Great Escape: Tai Chi for wellbeing
  • Campus Sport internal leagues for staff and students
  • Litter pick

  • Organic Veg boxes and competition
  • Mindful Movement Session
  • World Mental Health Day
  • Sleep on it Workshops
  • Healthy and affordable recipe photo prize draw
  • Exam De Stress
  • Healthy eating week
  • PGR 'FUN DAY' with taster activites
  • Manchester 10K #purplewave
  • Yoga Breakfast
  • Yoga for beginners
  • Lunch break gathering
  • Wellbeing/Resilience session 
  • Summer exam De-stress (Sporticipate)
  • Mindfulness Meditation Sessions for PGCE Students
  • Yoga to unwind
  • Cook School
  • Pastoral Care and Counselling

  • 'Making the modern world' tour
  • The rise of a university - Heritage Tour
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering Freshers Fair
  • Employability mock conference
  • Scavenger Hunt
  • Pre arrival guides years 3-5. Base hospital student survival guide.
  • Science undiscovered 
  • Explorer tour
  • Aperture Tour
  • Managing my future
  • Meet the professionals
  • Frightened about your finances
  • Speak Up Stand Up: Learn how to report a hate crime workshop
  • #CrimeLive
  • Talk money week
  • "Celebration of achievement"
  • Death Café
  • Sustainability Series: Modern Slavery Seminar
  • Applications for Team Uganda
  • Chinese New Year Event
  • Preparation for practice placements
  • National Student Money Week
  • Women in Engineering Q+A with Alumni
  • PGR Faculty Showcase
  • Dentistry Postgrad Event
  • Sign up to a UCIL unit
  • Dentistry Postgraduate Summer Day out
  • Pre arrival UCAS visits/quiz
  • Work and Research Experience Bursary Schemes
  • Student Experience Internships Scheme
  • Cookery Classes
  • Study skills/time management workshops
  • English Corner
  • 'Thursday lates'
  • Basic Life Skills
  • Workshops on meditation, making the most of your mind
  • Workplace Ethics Challenge
  • Social Justice Challenge
  • CV Clinic
  • Social Justice Challenge
  • On-going careers skills events
  • ResLife Recipe Books

Event planning documents

Below you will find the links to a blank event planning document, for you to plan your event/activity ideas, and some example event planning documents for you to take a look at if you would like some inspiration. These documents are for planning purposes only.

If you are a Wellbeing Champion please note that you still need to complete the event/activity proposal form in order to formally submit your event/activity idea.