Volunteer Crawl is the best of what we can do in terms of volunteering here at Science Union.

Dozens of student volunteers all pile onto a bus and spend their entire morning heading from place to place to volunteer for a whole range of charities.

In 2022 the SU Volunteering Crawl was revived after a series of COVID lockdowns in previous years had seen it being cancelled. It came back bigger and better than ever and so it was with our a largest cohort yet that we spent a few hours colunteering at the West Australian Aids Council, St. Barts, and Woman’s Refuge.

As a group of future scientists we are all well aware of just how endangered our environment is.

Science Union dedicates ourselves to doing what we can to help take care of our planet. Every year we appoint a Enviromental Representative to ensure that our events are eco-friendly and to run a whole host from Beach Clean-Ups to collaborations with the UWA Student Guild’s Enviro Week.

The Science Union committee prides ourselves on being a diverse and open minded bunch - and we make a specific point of supporting LGBTQ+ both at UWA and in Australia as whole.

In years past this has seen a number of our queer-identifying members to come together to organise a pride fundraiser which saw us donating over two thousand dollars to Minus18 from just one event.

We also make a point of regularly partnering with LGBTQ+ organisations such as WAAC and avoiding venues and organisations which spurn this.

Ever the competitive bunch, Science goes all out every year to raise as much as we can for the Australian Cancer Council’s “Relay for Life” in October.

In order to raise funds for cancer research Science Union committee members step up to eat brain meltingly hot food, shave, wax, and dye all parts of their body, and run dozens of kilometres on no sleep to raise as much money as we can.

In 2022 Science Union ran the most laps of any faculty society, totalling a massive 514 unique laps. This amazing effort saw us raising $4751 dollars for that year.