The Liverpool Hope University Service and Leadership Award (SALA) is a way to recognise your extra-curricular activities, give something back to the community and enhance your employability.

You can complete the SALA alongside your degree and it earns you an additional reward on graduation day. You'll develop skills and abilities that you can use in your future career and completing the award whilst your at university demonstrates that you are committed, determined and versatile.

The award is made up of three elements:

Volunteering

You'll need to do a minimum of 80 hours over at least two separate projects. If you'd like to combine travel and SALA you can opt to volunteer abroad on our Global Hope Programme.

Personal Development

Through the Core Talks modules you'll learn and develop skills like reflection, self-analysis and self management. The three Skills Development topics you can choose yourself, meaning it's tailored towards your leadership and career goals.

Reflective Portfolio

This is the final task to gain your award and is a chance to reflect on and share your experience. Your final portfolio can be anything from a video diary to an essay.

If you're completing the Award, keep an eye out on the Events page on My Careers Centre for all the latest training and workshop dates.

You can manage your SALA from My Careers Centre, just head to the Task Manager to see the guidance for all of the modules, plus you can upload evidence and add notes. 

Volunteering Placements

Already got your volunteering sorted? Great!

In order for us to approve your volunteering hours we need to have the organisation registered as partner with SALA. You can help to speed things up by emailing sala@hope.ac.uk with a name and email address for your supervisor/line manager at the organisation. Once we've registered an organisation other students can volunteer there as well, so you're not only helping connect volunteers to the organisation, you're connecting other students too!

If you need help securing a volunteering placement you can head to the Volunteering Opportunities page or drop into the Employability Hub for a chat with one of the team.