UG finalists: log your points before 1 April 2025!
Log your Spirit of Sussex Award points by 1 April 2025!
As a university-accredited award, SoSA is an excellent way of demonstrating your transferrable skills and passions to employers when you graduate from Sussex, which can help you stand out from other candidates. It also comes with extra perks: you’ll get an additional certificate at graduation, a pin badge at the SoSA celebration event, and an opportunity to win £200 towards a prize of your choice!
Struggling to know how to start? Check out our top 10 ways to log below!
- Have you had/ do you have a part-time job? Log these in the Work Experience category under the question “Do you have a part-time job?” (+5 points)
- Have you been a part of a Club or Society? Log these in the Society and Media Membership category.
- Members - use the question: “Are you a member or a participant of a society or community?” (+5 points each)
- Committee members – use the question:“Are you a member or a participant of a society or community?” (+10 points each)
- Presidents – use the question: “Are you president of a Students' Union or BSMS society?” (+15 points)
- If you were previously a member and are now a committee member or president, you can log these as separate points.
- Have you completed the NSS? Log this in the Co-Creation and Evaluation category under the question “Have you provided voluntary formal feedback on academic or professional matters on a one-off basis?” (+5 points)
- Have you joined any Academic Skills or ELAS workshops? Log this in the Training and Development category.
- Academic Skills – use the question: “Have you participated in Academic Skills workshops or webinars?” (+5 points)
- ELAS – use the question “Have you participated in any English for Academic Study workshops?” (+5 points)
- Have you taken part in any wellbeing activities, like Canine Cuddles, Halloween @ Sussex, Valentine’s @ Sussex, or community cafes? Log these in Sports and Wellbeing category under the question “Have you participated in mindfulness or well-being activities?” (+5 points)
- Have you developed a new hobby or skill?
- Log hobbies in the Creativity and Culture categoryunder the question “Have you started or developed a new hobby or craft?” (+5 points)
- Log new skills in the Training and Development category under the question “Have you been regularly studying a new skill in addition to your course?” (+5 points)
- Have you taken part in any Careers development activities (jobs fairs, workshops, careers consultations, job interviews, LinkedIn learning)? Log these in the Work Experience category under the question “Have you accessed any career-readiness & employability support?”(+5 points)
- Do you go to the gym, regularly attend sports, or take part in ActiveUs activities? Log these in the Sports and Wellbeing category under the question “Have you participated in any regular organised sporting activity?” (+5 points)
- Have you watched a performance, been to a festival, attended an exhibition, or taken part in a protest? Log this in the Creativity and Culture category under the question “Have you been involved in any creative or cultural activity?” (+5 points)
- Do you practice a faith? Log these in the Creativity and Culture category under the question “Have you been involved and engaged with a faith or religious society or community?” (+5 points)
Looking for more inspiration on ways to log? Check out the SoSA instagram!