Dear colleague

Thursday 5 February is National Voter Registration Day and UCU along with our partners at the National Union of Students (NUS) and the Bite the Ballot campaign are encouraging students to register to vote.  You may be aware that declining voter turnout is likely to worsen under the new system of individual registration and that this is particularly likely to affect students and younger workers (currently 30% of 18-24 year olds are not even registered).

Please help us reach the campaign target of adding 250,000 young people to the electoral register by:

1. Distributing our joint NUS/UCU leaflets and posters to your colleagues and students

2. Circulating this link to the online voter registration page

3. Tweet using #NVRD and #GenerationVote and add this to your email footer With the general election just months away there is a real danger that thousands of our students and colleagues will not be registered to vote so please support National Voter Registration Day and the campaign between now and the registration deadline 20 April 2015.

Thank you.

Sally Hunt

UCU general secretary