Sophie Hunt

The meal card is God’s gift to first years. So many options, so much good food to sample. If there’s one thing I miss about being in catered halls, it’s having a meal card (even if I did put on a considerable amount of weight). Impact have selected the...

Worried about the food in catered halls? Fear not, there are many benefits to not having to cook for yourself in your first year at university; it’s easier to budget, saves your time and doesn’t require treks to Aldi and back every week. There are many tricks to making...

Welcome Week is a busy time of settling in, making friends and working out how to get to the Portland Building. For some, it will also be the first opportunity to check out Nottingham’s nightlife scene. So, Impact have put together this handy guide, providing you with a quick...

Dreamworks’ Shrek was hugely popular amongst our generation growing up, so I was very excited to have the opportunity to see the musical adaptation live on stage. Directed by Jason Moore and Rob Ashford, the London Production of the original Broadway musical delivered a feel-good, fun-filled and high energy...

Having seen four-piece indie rock/pop band Pale Waves perform at two festivals this summer, Dot to Dot Festival and Y Not Festival, I was very excited for the release of their debut album My Mind Makes Noises. Manchester born and bred, Pale Waves have frequently been compared to The...

I’ll admit that I went into this performance completely blind, having never seen the 1982 film version starring Richard Gere. As an avid musical fan I was certainly not disappointed with Douglas Day Stewart and Sharleen Cooper Cohen’s adaptation of An Officer and A Gentleman. Lively, uplifting and feel-good,...

I remember coming to university and my responsibilities hitting me like a fast-moving train, even with the safety blanket of living in catered halls. I wasn’t ready to be an adult yet, I certainly didn’t feel like one, and I was overwhelmed by the thought and having to grow...