Thu 1 May to Mon 12 May
Should you wish to appeal your allocation, either on the basis of unjust process or an administrative error, you may do so from Thu 1st May to Mon 12th May, 9am.
Appeals
Once you have been informed of the outcome of the budgeting process for your CSP you may wish to appeal decisions if you are unhappy with your CSPs grant allocation.
Grounds for appeal include, but are not limited to:
- Administrative Error
For example: The notes on a particular line in your budget state A but the amount allocated is B.
- Unjust Process
For example: The policy states A but the decision from the committee is B, without the committee explaining the decision.
Grounds do not include:
- Lack of information initially provided by the CSP
- Misrepresentation of funds by the CSP
- Not receiving the allocation you requested
- Your budget being scaled due to total available funds
Before you submit an appeal, please also consider other sources of funding that are available or applying for a sponsorship.
To submit an appeal, please click the appeal button on your eActivities budget.
If you wish to submit additional information, you can fill out this form.
The appeals panel will share your appeal with your Management Group/Constituent Union representative. They will be invited to support your appeal in the appeals meeting, as an advocate/representative for your CSP.
Conduct
If deliberate deceit is discovered during the budgeting process, reviewers escalate the issue to the Activities Team. This can beIf a CSP believes that the decision is unjust they may make a formal complaint to the Union.
An outcome of budgeting deceit can be to reduce a CSP’s grant allocation to £0, or in extreme cases to escalate the issue to the Union's Members Disciplinary Process.
Submitted budgets will be judged against previous years' expenditure. It is against CSP Policy to run funds through external bank accounts and groups will be penalised under Union Disciplinary Procedures if found to be using an external bank account.
Once allocated, grant must only be spent on the categories it is allocated to. Contravening this will be considered deceit by CSPB. This will negatively impact the funding provided to the CSP in future.
Transparency
We believe that CSP budgeting should be a fully transparent and accountable process. As such, all budgets can be viewed by all students.
Whilst Annual Budgeting Committee are not open to all students, due to capacity concerns, all minutes will be made publically available.
