Ideas Forum

Welcome to the Ideas Forum! This is a place where you can submit any idea for change about your university experience or vote and comment on existing ideas.

If you can get at least 25 other students to vote for your idea, the Union officers are then able to consider it. Don't stop at 25 though - the more votes and comments an idea gets, the more power it gives us to try to action it!

Once an Idea has reached at least 25 up-votes, it will be sent to Executive Committee and/or Student Summit which are meetings where Union staff and students discuss, vote on and potentially action your idea. So don't hold back, let us know what you want us to do! (You can even post anonymously if you prefer to)

The Ideas Forum is such a direct and effective way to get your voice heard and you can use it as many times as you like during your studies - we know that your needs and wants change year on year, so use the Ideas Forum to reflect the current issues you are facing and let us know what it is you care about.

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  • 12 score
    12 votes

    Create a Blends App

    Submitted 3 months ago by Tracey Taylor Expires on 10 May
    Current
    • Facilities
    • Resources
    • Food and Drink
    • Environment and Sustainability
    • Blends
    • Union Shops
    • University Sites and Campuses
    2comments
    I would love to see a Blends app. We are always given the loyalty stamp cards to collect and redeem for free drinks. But I constantly loose these and then I end up with lots of different cards with 1 or 2 stamps on. Creating a blends app would allow the coffee shop to provide a paperless loyalty scheme which would reduce waste, whilst also an additional platform for advertising the seasonal specials, discount codes or events.
Darren Cassidy
10:27pm on 13 Nov 24 Would be helpful, I too have a few cards now and I forget mine. It would be more sustainable for the environment sake also. I would love to see this done sometime.
Connor Hearn
2:23pm on 1 Dec 24 This sounds like a fun project to work on, as a computer science student. However, it would be at risk of becoming like other loyalty schemes. User data would be collected and this can put people off. Also, a lot of the population aren't keen on having to use an app just to get money off. This is evident in supermarket loyalty schemes when customers share the frustration when their app doesn't load. A mitigation of this issue would be to link a bank card to the loyalty scheme, so that each time you pay, loyalty stamps are automatically added onto the app. We'd also need to analyse whether this project is even worth the cost. App development comes at a cost, and it wouldn't necessarily be more sustainable than a small bit of paper.