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MAKING THE MOST OF IT

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UCD FRESHERS’ WEEK 2025

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FRESHERS WEEK

  • The busiest week of the year

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  • 8,000 students a day
  • The best opportunity to showcase your society
  • What will someone get out of membership?

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  • The Elevator Pitch?

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  • Solid FW ⇉ Solid Year

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Checklist

  • Stand forms
  • Event forms

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  • Stand design
  • Posters?
  • Social Media

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  • Bags?

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  • Rosters
    • Events
    • Stand

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Top Tips

  • Sleep!!!
  • Be aggressively friendly.
  • Be unavoidable.
  • Give it your all.
  • Plan, plan plan!

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Stand

  • Physical Presentation of your society
  • *Shiny shiny
  • Put actual thought into it

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Stand Regulations

  • Allocation
  • Size
  • Sellotape & Blu tac
  • Attendance & Start Time
  • FW Staff
  • CASH!!!
  • No Commercial Vendors
  • €2 membership

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  • External personnel
  • Student Focused
  • No offensive material
  • Cleaning
  • No chewing gum or stickers
  • FW Posters
  • Normal University Regulations

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QUESTIONS?

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If you have any issues over the coming weeks email societies.council@ucd.ie