MMU Athletic Union (AU)
The Athletic Union (AU) is the governing body of sport at MMU within the Students' Union. The AU currently has 38 sports clubs in Manchester.
Some of these are competitive that play in the
BUCS programme whilst others are non-competitive and people take part for social reasons and for enjoyment and fitness.
British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) is the governing body of University sport in the UK and is accepted as such by the UK Sports Council, National Governing Bodies of Sport and various other sports-related organisations.
Currently there are 151 Universities and Institutes of Higher Education in its membership. BUCS provides an inter-university championship programme in 49 sports as well as a representative programme and at the representative level teams are entered in the World University Games and World University Championships.
MMU is entering a record number of teams into this year's BUCS programme - a total of 41 teams.