Busy! Busy! Busy!

Hi Readers! Megan here! Cosplay and Craft have been super busy this week! Our Wednesday meeting was jam packed!

This week, our society took on the challenge of trying to repair our own clothes or costumes. For a lot of our members, this is the first time they have picked up a sewing needle or touched a sewing machine. However, they showed determination and perseverance and we ended up with some pretty great results! Well done, Guys!

Along side sewing our own things, we helped out the SU with the Wiggly Bags for Great Ormand Street Hospital!
If you don't know what Wiggly Bags are, Wiggly Bags are small bags which are distributed out to children who have a Hickmen Line (a central venous catheter most often used for the administration of chemotherapy or other medications, as well as for withdrawal of blood for analysis.) We helped out by re-sewing some bags that have come slightly undone and strengthened others. Our aim for this is that when the SU hands over those bags, we get to give them a best we possibly could! Everyone in the society loved helping with these bags and can't wait to do more!

To keep up with the pace of the session, the committee got the society involved with VPSI Jimi Adeyinka's campaign "Buck's Proud"!
If you don't know what "Buck's Proud" is, it's a campaign that allows the students of Buck's SU to show how proud they are to be part of  Bucks! It's a great way to show the SU our appreciation and also help us get geared up for Varsity!

The last thing we did while we were a busy bunch was that we held our Annual General Meeting and asked the society a few questions. These were the responses we got:

• The society really enjoyed hosting and being part of our Globetrotters Italian Takeover.
• The other things that the society enjoyed were: 
• Hama beads sessions- Everyone said that they loved the ability to relax, have some fun, and chill out!
• Poster session- Members said that they thought it was really fun to be able to design something that would benefit the society and let other people know what kinds of things we do as a group!
• Blades Collaboration- Members also agreed that the RAG Pajama collab with Blades was really fun and it allowed us to hang out and get to know the members of  Bucks Blades and try something new.
• The society also said that they wanted to do some weapon crafting sessions.
• Other things they asked that we could do are:
• Resin sessions- Make charms and jewellery for costumes all while learning a new skill and techniques
• Hama beads! This society can't  get enough of those Hama beads! Lucky for them we're just waiting for some to be delivered and they can Hama bead to their hearts content!
• Actual Costume Sessions- Because we're a new and start up society, we haven't had the chance to do a costume session so they want to do a session ACTUALLY based on
  costuming. Mostly planning and designing and they doing the odd creation session.
• We also asked what they thought that committee was doing well and the answer that they gave us were that we were really friendly and welcoming and that we get across any info and news well.  They also said that we always meet the needs of the society and never leave them hanging.
• Although we liked hearing all the good things we do, we also asked what we could do better and they said that they wanted to do more recruitment events to try and get more members. They also asked that we could do concourse activities. They want to do more things to show they uni the fun stuff that we can do at the uni.
• One  last thing that they thought we could do more as a committee is UXB activities. They thought that it would be really good for the nurses studying at Uxbridge to just take an evening off to do some Hama beads and crafts and just get a chance to relax and have some fun.
• The committee also asked everyone what they thought would be a good idea for RAG ideas for the society and they thought up some fun and wacky ideas!
• Charity Week
• Lazer Tag Water Gun
• Human Chess
• Globetrotters
• Hama Bead Charms sale
• Craft Sale
• Paint Fight
• Carnival/ Funfair games
• Dick and Dom charity night
• Tutor Water Bombing
• One last thing we talked about as a society was about socials! We wanted to make sure that when we arranged socials, everyone felt welcomed and included. The ideas that they had were:
• Games Tournament
• Movie Social
• Movie Social with dressing up
• Disco Social
• Roller rink 
• Rush
• American Diner
• Food Social
• Toast Social (Toast-ial)
• Bread Social
• Garlic Social
• Cooking Social
• Jelly Social (Jell-o-cial)
• Water Social (H2O-cial)
• Dark Social
• Glow-in-the-Dark Social (Glow-cial)

See? I told you guys that we've been busy this week! See you next time! :D
-Megan