Action Guides
Here are a whole bunch of useful guides for running your STAR group and supporting refugees.
Have a look and download what you think will be useful.
NEW STAR Group Guide 2010-11
A guide to help you run a successful STAR group this year.
Contents
1. The STAR Network
1.1 What is STAR1.2 Joining the Network
1.3 The National Team
1.4 Board of Trustees
1.5 Connecting the Network
1.6 History of STAR
1.7 Key Events
1.8 Campaigning
1.9 Volunteering
1.10 Fundraising
1.11 Your Summer Checklist
2. Running a STAR Group
2.1 Working as a Team2.2. Getting and Keeping Members
2.3 Effective Meetings
2.4 Communicating
2.5 Changing Committees
2.6 Student Unions
3. Changing Attitudes
3.1 Why change attitudes?3.2 How you can change attitudes
3.3 Hosting an awareness event
3.4 Ideas for events
3.5 Winning an argument
3.6 Speakers
3.7 Film Screenings & Theatre
3.8 Simple Acts for Refugee Week
3.9 Refugee Information
Event guides
4. Volunteering
4.1 Introduction and how STAR national can help4.2 Can your university help
4.3 What kind of volunteering can you do
4.4 Volunteering in partnership
4.5 Get someone to take charge
4.6 How to set up a STAR student led project
4.7 How to know you are really making a difference
4.8 Keeping things safe
4.9 Volunteers
4.10 Useful documents
Project Guides:
Running an English conversation class
Tutoring tips for homework club volunteers
Craft activities for children
5. Campaigning
5.1 Introduction5.2 National Campaigns
5.3 How to Campaign with STAR
5.4 Planning a Campaign
5.5 Perfect Petitions
5.6 Lobbying your MP
5.7 Passing a Students Union Motion
6. Fundraising
6.1 Why Fundraise?6.2 How to fundraise
6.3 Fundraising Ideas
7. Event Organising
7.1 Events Organising7.2 Checklist for Organizing an Event
Top Tips!
Starting a STAR group
10 easy steps to starting a STAR group at your university.
10 steps to starting a group
Committee Handover
Top tips on how to handover responsibility to a new committee of students for the next academic year.
Changing Committees
Simple Acts at University
STAR has teamed up with Refugee Week and the Simple Acts campaign to bring you a special guide to doing Simple Acts for refugees at your university!
STAR’s Simple Acts
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Share your ideas
STAR members have a huge amount of experience and skills, so don’t be shy to share it with the rest of the STAR network!
Send in any ideas or suggestions you have to the STAR national team and we’ll see if we can include it in our guides.
And if you have any requests for advice on an area not covered above, let us know and we’ll do our best to add it.
