East Sussex Co-operative Party: June 2016

Sunday 26 June 2016

AGM Success

Gill Roles- top, our new chair, and

outgoing chair Jean Couture.

The East Sussex Co-operative Party branch held it's AGM today in Eastbourne. Long standing chair, Jean Couture stood down after many years service, and Gill Roles, a former Parliamentary and European Candidate for Eastbourne/East Sussex was elected in her place. A vote of thanks for her service was passed, and Jean will continue as vice chair.

The branch is very healthy in terms of both membership and finances, and a number of campaigns and events were discussed for the year including:

Party street stalls and stalls at Labour and Fairtrade events to promote our agenda
A barbecue in Heathfield over the summer break
A repeat of our Fairtrade Coffee Morning
Exploring options for Co-operative speakers to come to joint Co-op/Labour Party meetings
Making sure we field Labour and Co-op Candidates in next year's County Council election

The meeting ended with a moment of silence to remember Jo Cox, and an agreement to add our voice to those tributes to her service to our movement.

Wednesday 22 June 2016

Policy 2016- have your say !

Following feedback from Party members and review, the policy sub-committee of the NEC agreed to produce three ‘policy summary’ documents based around the following themes:

Secure and Confident Communities

http://eastsussexcoop.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html

Building a Shared Economy

http://eastsussexcoop.blogspot.co.uk/p/building-shared-economy.html

Creating a More Equal Society

http://eastsussexcoop.blogspot.co.uk/p/creating-more-equal-society-policy.html

Click on any of the images to find out more, and how you can have your input !

Thursday 16 June 2016

Branch AGM: Saturday 25th June

The Annual General Meeting of the East Sussex Branch of the Co-operative Party will be held on on Saturday 25th June, commencing at 10.30am at the Grove Room, Eastbourne Central Library (2nd floor), Grove Road, Eastbourne.

A G E N D A

1. Apologies for Absence
2. Minutes of the last AGM, held on June 26th 2015.

3. Reports:

Chair,
Vice Chair,
Secretary/Treasurer (including annual accounts)
Constituency Labour Parties
Party Council

4. Elections:

Chair
Vice Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
Any other officers
Delegates to Party Council (2)
Delegates to Constituency Labour Parties (Hastings and Rye, Bexhill and Battle, Eastbourne, Wealden, Lewes and Brighton City [Kemptown CLP]

5. Plan of Work for 2015-16, to include confirmation of meeting dates for the year and summer event.

6. Any other Business

Officers of the East Sussex branch of the Co-operative Party

About the Co-operative Party

The Co-operative Party is the political arm of the co-operative movement. We have more than 9,000 members.

Our party was established in 1917 and has been a sister party of the Labour Party since 1927.

We believe that people achieve more by working together than they can by working alone. We support the efforts of those who seek success through that co-operative endeavour.

We believe that the only way to create a just and fair society is through power being spread evenly throughout society, and not arbitrarily based on wealth, class, gender or race.

We work to promote co-operatives and all forms of mutual organisation.

We work in partnership with the Labour Party as its sister party to achieve these ends. That means we stand candidates jointly with the Labour Party at all levels of government. There are currently 29 Labour and Co-operative MPs in the House of Commons, 15 Members of the House of Lords, 5 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 9 Members of the Welsh Assembly and hundreds of councillors around the country.