Youth Reception @ Co-operative Party Conference

Co-operative Party Conference is on 10, 11, 12 September at the Hilton Hotel, Cardiff.

Co-operative Party Youth will be there in force engaging and influencing the Party as it meets to discuss the major policy issues facing the Labour & Co-operative movements.

As with previous years Co-operative Party Youth will hold a Youth Reception at conference where all members will be more than welcome.

Our Youth reception will be held on Friday 10th September at 8.30pm in the Owain Glyndwr on St. John's Sq., Cardiff a short distance from the conference venue.

Please come along if you can!

It's also worth noting that visitors can attend Co-operative Party Conference for FREE!

See you in Cardiff!

You can be a Cllr!

Emma Hoddinott the Co-operative Party Youth rep for Yorkshire & the Humber organised an event last week called "You Can be a Councillor" where young people from around the region, members of Co-operative Party Youth and Young Labour met for training and advice on getting selected and elected.

You can watch the video below:

Co-operative Party Youth Announces General Election Plans


Co-operative Party Youth will be hitting the road during the election campaign visiting key Labour & Co-operative seats across Great Britain – Fighting hard for a 4th term with co-operative values at its core.

We will be starting in the north in our 7 seat battle bus and working our way south. The highly marginal seat of Edinburgh North & Leith will be our first stop and we’ll be finishing up in Brighton Kemptown.

How can you help?

Below is the timetable for where the battle bus will be during the course of the election. To help you can join the bus – either for the full tour or just for parts of it. We’ll pay fares to get to us. A few days help will make a massive contribution to our efforts to elect a record number of Labour/Co-operative MPs.

Also if the bus is visiting a seat near you, come and join us! We’ll cover travelling expenses so you’re not out of pocket. If you’ve never campaigned before, training and support will be available, so don’t be shy.

So join us on Co-operative Party Youth’s epic tour of Britain. To come join the bus or for further information please contact me on j.russo@party.coop or 07545 925 121.

Timetable


Edinburgh North & Leith – 13 & 14 April

Barrow in Furness – 15 & 16 April

Liverpool Wavertree – 17 & 18 April

Morley & Outwood - 19 April

Halifax - 20 & 21 April

The Wrekin - 22 April

Corby - 23 & 24 April

Swansea - 25 & 26 April

Luton South - 27 & 28 April

Stevenage - 29 & 30 April

Croydon Central - 1 May

Harrow West - 2 & 3 May

Brighton Kemptown- 4 & 5 May



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Bank on Owen

The Scottish Co-operative Party has released a video to go along with their 'Bank on Owen' campaign. The campaign's purpose is to highlight the failure of casino capitalism and show that mutual models where the financial institutions are owned by the people is a far more sustainable platform for the banking sector.

The campaign is determined therefore to get one of the Scottish clearing banks to put a portrait of Robert Owen on a bank note to commemorate 2012 being the UN's international year of the co-operative.



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John Woodcock writes for Co-op Youth!

I am very proud to be an official Labour & Co-operative candidate - the first ever in Barrow & Furness - because co-op values have always been my values and it is important for me to put them at the heart of my offer to people here. At a time when there is a general distrust in politics and uncertainty over our economy, we can show we are on people’s side by supporting co-operative solutions that are making a real difference on the ground.

The fact is that co-operative and mutual solutions can and do make a real difference to people in constituencies like mine. They are the practical solutions run by Barrow & Furness people, which are changing people’s lives. For example, the Walney Island Credit Union offers an alternative to the loan sharks offering 300% loans on the street, whilst Baywind produces co-operative energy used by the community and The Co-operative Food stores across Furness offer those who use them their share of the profits twice a year.

I am always amazed at the breadth of the co-operative and mutual sector and it is clear from the Co-operative Party’s General Election manifesto that there is huge scope for more co-operative and mutual ideas to become reality so we can move on from the financial collapse to a better, more stable future. These ideas are genuine solutions offering an alternative way of working and if am lucky enough to get elected to Parliament I will do all I can to make these ideas reality as part of Labour’s vision for the future.

John Woodcock

Labour & Co-op PPC for Barrow & Furness

Join Co-op Youth North West on our campaign day with John in his Barrow constituency on Sunday 24th January - e-mail coopyouthnw@googlemail.com or see http://tiny.cc/barrow for more info!

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