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ENRICH – your college experience

Maximize your college experience with our ENRICH opportunities! Join clubs, go on trips, attend inspiring talks from guest speakers, participate in exciting events, or give back through volunteering. Explore, connect, and make the most of your time at York College.

ENRICH Online – access our online platform for support with your Driving Theory Test, learning to cook or vital life saving First Aid skills.

ENRICH Clubs – Dominoes, Football, Crochet or Chess – plenty of opportunities to make friends and have fun.

ENRICH Events – Events and Activities throughout the year (previous events include; climbing wall, external speakers and a visit from some farm animals!)

We offer a wide variety of enrichment activities and events that develop skills to enhance employability and self-development. These range from clubs and societies that are run over the lunch time period, guest speakers, trips, competing in competitions and much more. 

All students are encouraged to take up a range of options to participate in new and exciting activities, develop personal skills, make new friends and gain valuable experience. Our ENRICH activities run on a daily basis (from mid-October), throughout the week at College. Each session is aimed to fit around every timetable and students have the freedom to choose which sessions they want to run and attend.

Students chatting in Christian Union Xtra Curricular

We offer a wide variety of enrichment activities and events that develop skills to enhance employability and self-development. These range from clubs and societies that are run over the lunch time period, guest speakers, trips, competing in competitions and much more. 

All students are encouraged to take up a range of options to participate in new and exciting activities, develop personal skills, make new friends and gain valuable experience. Our ENRICH activities run on a daily basis (from mid-October), throughout the week at College. Each session is aimed to fit around every timetable and students have the freedom to choose which sessions they want to run and attend.

Subject Enhancement

At York College it's vital that we increase our students' educational and cultural experiences buy offering trips and residential visits to complement studies.

Many of our study programmes have specialist trips and visit schedules to enhance the learning of our students outside of the classroom. Some examples are as follows:

  • A Level Physics- day trip to York University- Nuclear and Astrophysics
  • A Level Geography trip - Cranedale Field study centre near Malton - geographical fieldwork
  • A Level French studies - annual trips to Berlin for A Level German students
  • Hospitality and Tourism - Florence Italy trip
  • Hair and Beauty- Beauty UK at NEC Birmingham (hair, media and beauty trade exhibition)
  • A Level Economics - Bank of England
  • Sport & Public services - residential visit to Italy - football stadium visit
  • Construction - residential to Martinique - building site visit
Cross College Workshops

We hosts a wide-range of enriching and engaging workshops, covering a variety of topics including:

  • Building self esteem through laughter & comedy
  • Cyber-bullying
  • Prevent and anti-extremism
  • Healthy relationships
  • Sexual consent
  • Road safety awareness
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Mental health awareness
  • Visits and residential trips
“I always found Debating Society really enjoyable! We always debated topics that were in the news which made it particularly interesting, especially because I study politics where having a good knowledge of current affairs is important. There were also plenty of opportunities to lead or chair debates as well as just to sit in to hear the arguments. This made it really easy to get more involved in debates you were passionate about, but also meant that you didn’t have to if you didn’t want to.”
Societies and Clubs Timetable

Previous clubs and societies have included Photography Club, Jazz Band, History Club, Choir, E-Sports, Creative Writing, Debating, International Language Club, Dungeons & Dragons and much more. 

Put more in – Get more out!

Timetable for 2024-25 - Coming soon!


Student Union

Here at York College & University Centre, we believe it’s important to ensure our students have a voice and are listened to and heard.

Our Student Union ensures the student body and the College work collaboratively together to increase student wellbeing and satisfaction, embracing student advocacy to implement positive change.

Students sat in LRC laughing
Students sat in LRC laughing

Student Union

Here at York College & University Centre, we believe it’s important to ensure our students have a voice and are listened to and heard.

Our Student Union ensures the student body and the College work collaboratively together to increase student wellbeing and satisfaction, embracing student advocacy to implement positive change.

Your Voice Logo Full colour

Our College would not function in the way it needs to without taking student feedback and we have developed a robust and very active programme of student voice activity in order to ensure students are at the centre of our decision-making and continue to lead us in making the most informed choices in the best interest of our student body.

If you are interested in becoming a student rep please speak to your course teams.


Student Discounts

Students are entitled to a range of discounts from a wide selection of retailers, restaurants and more. Visit the TOTUM website to sign up and find out more.
Get access to over 350 of top brand student discounts, deals and flash sales on eating out and fashion, tech and travel, and everything in between. Co-op, ASOS, Boots, Samsung, Halfords, National Express, Apple, ODEON, PizzaExpress plus loads more. It's like NUS extra only bigger and better!