East Sussex Co-operative Party: October 2018

Tuesday 2 October 2018

Next Branch Meeting: Saturday 6th October

The next meeting of the East Sussex Branch of the Co-operative Party will be held on Saturday 6th October, commencing at 11.00am at the RAF Association, Wish Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4NX. (Please note that the meeting room is up one flight of stairs) (map)

A G E N D A

1. Apologies for Absence

2. Minutes of the Previous Meeting and any Matters arising

3. Reports:

Membership

Finance

Constituency Labour Parties

Party Council

4. PREPARATION FOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE including discussion on motions and agenda.

5. MONTH of ACTION on Modern Slavery and possibility of a speaker meeting later on.

6. Local elections preparation- reference to the Co-op Party's 12 ideas for Local Government Manifestos

7. Any other Business

We will be staying for lunch afterwards, and all members are warmly invited to join us. The RAFA lunch is always excellent!

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.