Welcome to our welfare page!

The Welfare Officers run Welfare Tea every Sunday at 3pm in the JCR space. Here you can help yourself to loads of free food and snacks!
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We also do Welfare Yoga at 4pm on Sundays in college for people of any ability to take part in!

Just after the halfway point in term, week 5 is welfare week! It’s at when students usually need it most, because of ‘fifth week blues’, a term we have for the stress which fifth week is known to bring.

But don’t worry, welfare has your back! We organise welfairies, which are when you can send anonymous messages and sweets to other JCR members, as well as invite several cute little animals to the gardens of Stevens Close.

The following supplies are available from the Welfare Reps:

• Condoms (regular, king-size, latex-free)

• Dental dams

• Lube

• Pregnancy tests

• Reimbursement for the morning after pill

• Sanitary products

• Drink covers

• Rape alarms

To request any of these email either of the welfare reps or, if you prefer, anonymously put a request in one of their pigeon-holes and they will leave the supplies in their pigeon-holes for collection.

If you require anything not on this list please contact us.

Many of these supplies are also available in the JCR toilets.

A Student Support collection in the Jesus College Library (section SS in the Lower Library) holds books on study skills and welfare issues, whether for your own use, or to help you support a friend. Borrowing is anonymous: neither staff nor students can see who has which books. Simply take the books you need from the shelves. When you have finished with them, place the books directly on the returns trolley.

College parenting is a system where second year students ‘adopt’ freshers when they get here! College parents will take their fresher children out to brunch, cook homemade dinner for them and answer all their questions!! This is great in making freshers feel at home early on, and in ensuring inter-year bonding.

For international students, we also have international godparents who can offer you some more specific adv about adjusting to life and studies in the UK.

In addition to our Welfare Officers, we have Peer Supporters, students who are there for you to informally talk to about anything that's on your mind. As fellow Jesus students, they might be able to understand your experiences better than college staff.

Peer Supporters have had a term of training to prepare them for their roles. However, they are not counsellors and, where appropriate, they may encourage you to seek more formal support through college welfare, your GP or the University Counselling Service.

Click here for more information on reaching out to peer supporters!

Here are our top tips for your safety in the area:

1. Walk home in groups or cycle; stick to main roads with lights

2. Avoid barracks lane (near barts), and the less well-lit portions of jericho - walk back to stevens via woodstock and not jericho

3. we have a stock of personal panic alarms from the SU; message the welfare reps if you'd like one and they’ll pass it to you when it arrives

4. Be careful when ride sharing

5.If you have no choice but to walk home alone, call the nightline at 01865 270270 and they'll chat to you until you reach home

6. The lodge may also be able to help you; the lodge's number is 01865 279700