Your Ideas

What is the ideas system?

The Ideas System is the easiest way to share your suggestions and vote on ideas from other students. When you submit an idea, the Student Voice Team and an Executive Officer will review it. We only decline ideas if they:

Break the law
Prevent us from meeting our charitable obligations
Name or identify individuals (including staff)
Contain defamatory or harmful content

If there’s an issue, we’ll contact you, explain why, and help you adjust the idea. You’ll also be told how to appeal.

Once approved, your idea is published for 10 working days, where students can give it a thumbs up, thumbs down, or comment.

What happens next?

If your idea gets under 50 likes:
Sent to the relevant Council to discuss. If they support it, they’ll start planning or developing policy.
50–99 likes:
Must be discussed by a Council. They may choose to act by creating a plan or policy for Leicester100.
100+ likes:
You can present your idea to Leicester100 (if you have a full policy). If not, a Council will create a policy or action plan with you.

You’ll be invited to any Council meeting where your idea is discussed, and you can be as involved as you like. If the idea becomes a policy proposal, the Council will help you build it—along with a handy guide.

Voting is simple

Just hit thumbs up or thumbs down on any idea. You can also comment and join the discussion.

Important to know

Ideas have 2 weeks to reach 50 positive votes.
Ideas are removed after 6 months.
Questions? Email su-council@le.ac.uk

Ideas

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99 score

109 voters

Revitalise the Botanic Gardens and Allotments to function as a community garden

Submitted 2 years ago by James John Chick

Current
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Turn the Botanic Gardens and Allotments into a community garden. They already have the capacity to accomodate such a task, but no advertisement or engagement.

The benefits would include:

- The ability for the university to grow its own food and transport it over to our own campus outlets, having truly home-grown, sustainable produce, a win for marketing and sustainability

- The ability for international students to grow produce from seeds of their own culture, introducing to Leicester a new taste and range of diverse cuisine

-The ability for students struggling with the Cost Of Living Crisis to be freely given volunteer-grown foods to alleviate their financial siutuations

Conor Alborn-Twomey: 2:04pm on 6 Nov 24 Great idea turning allotments into community garden's.
Aron Truszkiewicz: 9:22am on 13 Nov 24 I'm the president of Manufacture and Design and I think brining some use back to the gardens would be great! I would love to be able to help out, if any restoration would be needed, as it would be a great society project.