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What is UMSA?

The Universities at Medway Students’ Association (UMSA) is the students’ organisation for the Universities of Greenwich, Kent and Canterbury Christ Church at the shared Universities at Medway campus in Chatham Maritime. 

The Association provides representation, activities and wide-ranging services to its 9,000 students and is the fastest growing student organisation in the UK.  This includes 2 nationally award winning bars, a convenience store, a student advice centre and a JobShop to find part time work for students. In addition, the Association operates numerous sports clubs and societies through its student activities centre and boasts over 1000 active members. Highlights include a growing number of successful sports teams, a campus newspaper – Pulp, various fund raising activities and an annual boat race between the universities on the river Medway.

The Association employs a mixture of career and student staff and is based in the Jellicoe and Pilkington buildings. The organisation turns over £750,000 per annum, is a not for profit organisation and reinvests its commercial revenues into offering better activities and services to its students. 

The Association is a partnership between the students’ unions from the Universities of Greenwich, Kent and Canterbury Christ Church and works in collaboration with its stakeholders to achieve its goals. The partnership is unique in its structure and aims to be recognised as the model of best practice in providing representation, activities and services to students of multiple institutions. The Association is managed by Kent Union.

Am I a member of UMSA?

Students are automatically members of the Association by virtue of their registration to one of the institutions based at chatham Maritime.

Am I a member of National Union of Students (NUS)?

The Association is an associate member of NUS because all of the partner students' unions are affiliated to the National Union of Students (NUS).

To apply for an NUS extra card then please go to www.nus.org.uk/nusextra and select your University / College and select the delivery destination as Medway!