[HDNG]SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P5[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 7 sabbatical [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 25% [BULL] Ave. turnout at[PARA]General Meetings: 3% [BULL] NUS member [ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]The SU is open, non-cliquey, busy and friendly, partly because [PARA]it's so decentralised. Despite the strong political thrust, leisure [PARA]and business activities get top slot. It has the largest annual [PARA]turnover of any students' union in the UK with its own [PARA]purpose-built building (Graves Building) and furiously good [PARA]facilities open 7 days a week, employing a force of 250 staff and [PARA]with plans for expansion.[EITAL][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][PARA]2 pubs. In the Graves Building there are 4 bars (1 non-smoking), [PARA]2 snack bars, pizza kiosk, 1 staff canteen, [ITAL]big [EITAL]travel agent, [PARA]general shop, advice centre, NatWest Bank, Endsleigh [PARA]Insurance, cinema, ticket agency, prayer rooms, creche, TV [PARA]lounge, pool and snooker tables, daily stalls and Monday market, [PARA]photocopiers, video games, juke boxes, vending machines, [PARA]launderette and conference facilities.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]Amnesty International; Anglican; Anti-Nazi; Asian; Ba'hai; [PARA]Ballroom Dancing; Bangladesh; Birders (ornithology); Bisexual; [PARA]Catholic Chaplaincy Fellowship; Change Ringers (bell ringing); [PARA]Chinese (x2); Christians in Sport; Club (nightclubbing); [PARA]Cymdeithas Gymraeg; Egyptian; Everton Supporters; Finnish; [PARA]Flint Mooting (plastic armour and jousting); Flying Teapot Circus [PARA](street performers); Folk; Free Church; Greek and Cypriot; [PARA]Hispanic; Hunt Saboteurs; Indonesian; Iranian; Iraqi; Irish Freedom [PARA]Movement; Israeli and Jewish; Malaysian; Malaysian and [PARA]Singaporean; Manchester City FC Supporters; Mexican; Not Only[PARA]Dungeons and Dragons; Pagan; Pakistan; Peace and [PARA]Democracy in the Middle East; Photographic; Poetry and Creative[PARA]Writing; Radio and TV; Revolutionary Communists; Riverdale [PARA]Flats (hall of residence); Sahaja Yoga Meditation; Sci-Fi and [PARA]Fantasy; Soccer Supporters; Syrian; Third World First/Oxfam; [PARA]Turkish; War Games; Welsh; YHA.[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]'Darts' is the award-winning, free, weekly newspaper published [PARA]by, but independent of, the SU which also produces the weekly [PARA]'What's On' and an occasional arts magazine. There's a campus[PARA]radio station (Forge FM). The charity Rag (Sheffield Students [PARA]Charities Appeal) which is run jointly with [ULNE]Sheffield Hallam [PARA]University[EULNE], employs a full time staff member. Every year it [PARA]organises the pyjama jump - a huge party in, well, pyjamas. This [PARA]alone can raise up to ú30,000 and is England's biggest single Rag[PARA]event. Last year, Rag raised ú85,000. The student community [PARA]action group is [ITAL]immense, [EITAL]involving between 700 and 800 students[PARA]in all sorts of community and charity work (teaching English, [PARA]helping the elderly, etc).[HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][PARA][STAT][BULL] 8 chaplains[ESTAT][PARA]There are centres for both Jews and Muslims in the SU. In town, [PARA]there is no shortage of places to pray including 2 cathedrals [PARA](Anglican and Catholic).[HDNG]PAID WORK:[EHDNG][PARA][ITAL]Sheffield may offer a lot of things to students, but employment [PARA]isn't one of them. It has its own unemployed to worry about first.[PARA]Only the usual bar and restaurant work.[EITAL][PARA][PARA]