Wednesday 06-11-2019 - 17:00

Ben Evans, Vice-President Activities, has today resigned his position at Lancaster University Students' Union with immediate effect.

Since the information about the negotiations for a potential sale of The Sugarhouse was leaked, Ben has felt under considerable pressure, in terms of his mental health and wellbeing.

The decision to engage in negotiations was taken collectively by the whole Trustee Board. The focus on Ben and attempts to blame him alone are unwarranted.

The personal attacks to which he has been subjected are unjustified. It is to his credit that in spite of this he continued to perform his role as VP Activities. However, he has now decided that for his own health and wellbeing he has to resign.

We are very disappointed that Ben has been put in a position where he feels he has to take this decision, but we fully respect his reasons for doing so. We would like to thank Ben for his work for students at the Union since his election and the valuable contribution he has made to the team. We will miss him very much and we all wish him well for the future.

In the meantime, we are ensuring that Ben's duties are fully covered while arrangements are made for the election of someone to take over his role. We will keep students fully informed of this process.

Our Advice Team are available to provide independent and confidential support to any students. They can be contacted at advice@lancastersu.co.uk.

For further information contact Misbah Ashraf (Head of Marketing & Organisation) at misbah.ashraf@lancaster.ac.uk.