Ballot paper No. 01 — Sabbatical Officer
Prepare
to win.
Most candidates start campaigning the week nominations open. By then it's already decided. I mentor UK students through the six months before that — research, strategy, manifesto, hustings. Every student I've coached has won.
Official ballot — mark one
Win rate, mentored campaigns
Months of prep before nominations
Elected as VP Welfare, first attempt
Any students' union, anywhere
What you're running for
A paid year running the place
A Sabbatical Officer isn't a badge. It's a full-time salaried job for a year, open at any stage of your degree, with a seat at the tables where university policy actually gets decided.
Inside
Boards, senates, budgets
You sit on the committees where real decisions land, manage union budgets, and hold the institution to account on welfare, education and housing.
Outside
Councils, NUS, petitions
You represent students nationally, work with local councils on housing and safety, and can put real weight behind parliamentary petitions.
After
A public affairs track record
Negotiation, media handling, stakeholder management — the skills most graduate schemes only teach you three years in.
About me
Four elections. Four wins.
I studied Accounting and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. Over three years there I ran in four students' union elections and won every one of them. This mentorship is built from the notes I kept doing it four times over, not a theory of how it's supposed to work.
Election record — Queen Mary University of London
The campaign, month by month
Scroll the whole run
6 months out
Read the institution
Learn how your union really works.
We map the trustee board, exec and part-time officers, then read three years of past manifestos to see what has actually worked.
4 months out
Pick your one issue
One promise, costed and defensible.
Not five vague pledges. One thing students genuinely care about — pressure-tested until it holds up at hustings.
2 months out
Build visibility
Be known before you're a candidate.
Show up where students already are, in ways that don't look like campaigning. By nomination day they know your name and your issue.
Nominations open
Manifesto locked
Everything ready before the starting gun.
Written, edited, specific, and shorter than everyone else's. Team briefed, timeline on paper, materials printed.
Campaign week
Hustings and the ground game
A plan for every single day.
Speaking drills, answers rehearsed for the questions you're dreading, lecture shout-outs, and a route that covers the quiet courses.
Polling day
Get out the vote
The unglamorous hours that decide it.
Chasing your soft votes until polls close — then, if you win, support stepping into the job in your first month.
What they say
Postcards from the campaign trail
“[Placeholder] Working through the structure of our SU before campaigning even started completely changed how I approached the election.”
[Student Name]
Elected [Role], [University]
“[Placeholder] I went from having no profile at all to running a campaign that actually addressed what students cared about.”
[Student Name]
Elected [Role], [University]
“[Placeholder] The research-led approach meant I walked into hustings more prepared than any other candidate.”
[Student Name]
Elected [Role], [University]
Placeholder copy — swap in real quotes, names and universities as they come in.
Pricing
Free to talk. Priced to what you need.
The discovery call costs nothing, whatever you decide afterwards. Anything beyond that isn't a fixed package — it's tailored to your university, your timeline and your own profile as a candidate, and priced around what your campaign actually needs.
How it works
Questions
Straight answers
No. Several students I've worked with had zero society or union profile when we started. Visibility is something we build deliberately over months — it isn't a prerequisite.
Six months before nominations is ideal. Three is workable. Two weeks is a sprint, and I'll tell you honestly if I think it's too late to help properly.
The opposite. If your reason for running is a line on LinkedIn, the mentorship won't work and hustings will expose it. This is for people who actually want the job.
We do an honest debrief and a plan for what's next — a part-time officer role, a rerun, or a different route into public affairs. Losing well is still worth something.
Yes. The first month in post is its own challenge, and we can just keep working together for as long as it's useful.
Nominate yourself
Book your free discovery call
Twenty minutes. Your university, your ambitions, and an honest read on whether running is right for you. No pitch.
or email eshwindersingh2005@gmail.com