In 2012, it scored one of the lowest satisfaction rates in the National Student Survey[4] but has since improved somewhat.

The Helena Kennedy Centre where the union was previously located was formerly the headquarters of Pergamon Press,[5] which was the site of Britain's longest running print strike.

[7] There were some international solidarity campaigns, the anti-apartheid group took students on coaches to London to protest British support for the policy of apartheid in South Africa.

The union also received speakers from Sinn Féin[13] and SWAPO[14] representing national liberation movements in Ireland and Namibia respectively.

At the Annual General Meeting in February 2015, it was motioned (and passed) that the existing format of three Sabbatical Officers would become four with a restructuring of the VP: Student Experience role due to the large remit.