Starting a society?

Dave!

Hey folks,

just wondering what are the requirements and the processes for making an official society, maybe getting a grant, etc.? I'm not planning on doing it this year, but maybe in the future I might, I have a few ideas anywho..

Thankya!

Vorsprung

http://www.ucdsu.net/settingup.php

humbert

What have you got in mind?

Scraggs

ucdsu.net wrote:

sadly the Fr Ted Society is now defunct

aww... now that would have been a society worth joining

what kinda soc were ya thinkin of??

Red Alert

RSoc it's after QSoc

Dave!

Well they're not great

But I was thinking of:

Petsoc - For those of you with pets... Cats, dogs, iguanas, fish, birds... We could meet up and show them off basically! But also, for people with dogs who want to socialise them (get them used to other dogs) but haven't got a place to do it, then we could do that. If you need tips on training them, diet stuff, etc., then we could share that. Maybe if people want to have pups/kittens, then we could find a willing volunteer (among the animals!:eek: ) Things like that.

Astrosoc - It probably already exists, I would imagine it does... But for people into astronomy and the likes. I don't know anything about it myself, but I'd like to learn, so if there were people who knew about it, then they could share info... we could meet up at good places for looking at stars and sh!t like that. Experienced people could share their telescope and show people how to use it... point out constellations, etc.

Angling! - I didn't see anything to do with angling (fishing) in the sports expo, so I don't think it exists already -- but it should! Again I don't know much about angling -- but I'd like to! I'm sure there's experienced fishers in UCD, they could share their knowledge, show people how to cast, etc. Anyone who knows of good locations, lakes, and the likes, then they could share, and maybe we could organise a bit of a trip down to there for a day or a weekend.

That's all I can remember at the moment.. I'm sure I'll get more this year, though

What make ye of these ideas? Any of them been done already and I don't know about them?

EDIT:

Thanks for the link, btw -- I searched ucd.ie but couldn't find it, but I never thought to check the SU!

irlrobins

pet soc sucks! no offense, but really!

other two might struggle to get members. So unless a lot of effort was put in to organise good activities they could die a quick death.

Dave!

I think Petsoc is a good idea...! It'd probably be filled with girls and I'd be thought to be a bit on the homosexual side... but there's loads of people with pets and sh!t.

The other two probably wouldn't get many members, no, but I'm not looking to build LawsocII or anything. It'd just be cool for people with interests in those areas to be able to meet others.

irlrobins

yea but we're not 12 anymore Dave... it's not show and tell in school...

Just my opinion.....

Dave!

noted, thanks

LovelyHurling

Hey Dave, I think I heard rumours of an Angling Soc last September, I canno' be sure though and it's not listed on the sports club site but pretty sure there was one for a while, it might have folded.

Maybe you should combine petsoc and astrosoc, your patron could be Lolita, or whoever that Collie was to go into space:D Reckon you'd get loads of people for astrosoc what with the new astroscience course beginning next September

Mr.Nice Guy

PatSoc is where the fun's at.

John_C

Homebrew Soc?

Mr_Roger_Bongos

I tried setting up a society last year. Basically the process is, get your petition of 30 or so names (the more the better), outline what the society' role in student life will be, and what you would offer members. You can use the standard ucd consititution for society' to start. Then you present it to the committee for society' in august i think.

From a personal point of view, you need to convince the committee that your society will actually achieve a certain membership (beyond the people on your petition!) and be able to answer they're questions convincingly! They are reluctant to increase society numbers because it dilutes the funding available to each one, so you really have to convince them about student demand for your idea's. To be honest, im not sure they'd be convinced by Angling Soc, or Astro Soc. There's an angling forum here (Not that i've ever posted there ) and it doesn't have a big posting, not sure the student crowd would go for Angling Soc, but then again if you got it, you could have CRAZY ANGLING WEEKEND'S! to rival that of surf soc (iv never been, just heard the rumours).

LovelyHurling

Yeah Angling Soc could be the new Dutch soc... again, water and alcohol really smart combo!! Why not throw in fireworks and some petrol too! of course you dont technically have to get funding, look at aforementioned Dutch Soc and Crack Soc they arent funded afaik.

I deffo think you should go for it tho, I would join angling despite having graduated by that stage. Id be like a grown man at a playschool party trying to get comfie on a three inch chair.

zap

DaveMcG wrote:

Well they're not great

Angling! - I didn't see anything to do with angling (fishing) in the sports expo, so I don't think it exists already -- but it should! Again I don't know much about angling -- but I'd like to! I'm sure there's experienced fishers in UCD, they could share their knowledge, show people how to cast, etc. Anyone who knows of good locations, lakes, and the likes, then they could share, and maybe we could organise a bit of a trip down to there for a day or a weekend.

You can't have angling soc its a sport so therefore it's a club and isn't set up like a society.

The other two would be very small society's, finally you can't get any grant the first year.

Mr.Nice Guy

AstroSoc would be cool.

Students sitting under the stars, for example Scraggs and Panda100, then lowering their gaze to one another's eyes before...gettin' it ON!

Scraggs

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

AstroSoc would be cool.

Students sitting under the stars, for example Scraggs and Panda100, then lowering their gaze to one another's eyes before...gettin' it ON!

:rolleyes:

Dave!

^
But... that was the only reason I wanted to set it up in the first place...



Thanks for the help everyone

Scraggs

I think animal soc would be way better than petsoc...
much broader and would be attract a bigger and better crowd.

there could be road trips to the zoo and fota wildlife place and that wetlands place where you know those birds live [slobs??].

plus there'd be interest from vets and all those doin zoology and ag subjects.

[hehe the catchphrase could be AnimalSoc... Its wild!!!]

panda100

i think its quite easy really to get a society set up-you just have to get a certain amount of signatures.Sure paul d and dan Hayden tried to set up conker soc 2 years ago and got like 300 signatures from merville alone!:eek: Bit too sesonal though that society so wouldnt really have worked out.

I think if there was a boards soc i should be president

Scraggs

I call Boards.soc PR officer

Scraggs

OMG just thought of TEH BEST SOC EVAAAR..

Cash Soc where we pay tribute to johnny cash! that would be fucuking awesome!

LovelyHurling

Scraggs wrote:

I think animal soc would be way better than petsoc...

plus there'd be interest from vets and all those doin zoology and ag subjects.

[hehe the catchphrase could be AnimalSoc... Its wild!!!]

That might attract the type of person who counts beastiality as good clean fun! (ie aforementioned vets, zoology and ag.) No no best just stick to petsoc, you could go on the major pull in petsoc, twould be as good as coppers of a thursday!!

Scraggs

but petsoc sounds soooo dull [no offence dave]

LovelyHurling

Wait a diddlytootin' second here folks, shouldnt we ask the animals what they want? And anyway I can see major problems ahead for petsoc... owners getting competitive *my lizard is longer than yours* *which bitch can take the biggest... bone* etc... It would all end in prison and we'd all rue the day this was ever mentioned

Mr.Nice Guy

Scraggs wrote:

:rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

LovelyHurling

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

:rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

Mr.Nice Guy

LovelyHurling wrote:

:rolleyes:

LovelyHurling

Dunno

Mr.Nice Guy

LovelyHurling wrote:

Dunno

:rolleyes: