Clubs and societies

Shetland Students Green Team was founded in March 2019. Since then they have worked hard to raise awareness of environment and sustainability issues at the campuses and were awarded the HISA Society of the Year Award in 2019 and were Highly Commended in the HISA Society of the Year category in the 2021 awards. 

The society have had students and staff involved in events and have taken part in the Shetland Amenity Trust’s Da Voar Redd Up which is a community led litter pick-up.  They have also organised a collection point for used stationery so that items can be sent to the mainland for recycling, as well as looking at the recycling options available at the campuses. Beach cleans are a regular feature and more recently members have been involved in organising local social enterprise Transition Turriefield who grow fruit and vegetables for the Shetland community to speak at the UHI/HISA World Earth Day Celebrations, sharing and promoting the mental health benefits of connecting in nature, information about the circular economy and helping create the HISA nature explorer packs. 

The Shetland Students’ Green Team is the first student society to have been set up at either of the Shetland campuses. It is affiliated to HISA which ensures that the society and its members are supported. The Shetland Green Team says: "We would like to share the sense of empowerment we get from taking action, like our beach clean, with as many people as possible.”