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CF Newsletter – Issue 2

7 January 2009 admin No Comment

CF Newsletter – January 2009

Contents:

1. A message from the National Chairman
2. Regional Chairmen
3. Recent blog posts of interest
4. Inside CF
5. Branches
6. Campaigns & events
7. Contact us

1) A message from the National Chairman

Happy New Year!

I trust this message finds you all well watered, fed and rested after the festive season!

2009 will be a tough year for us all; we will face many challenges in the year ahead, with the economic crisis likely to affect everyone in one way or another and hit some very hard over the coming months. Even though we now have nationalised banks, debts that ‘our’ children will be paying off and millions facing unemployment, we can at least sleep peacefully at night in the knowledge that El Gordo has “saved the world”…!

But we should be positive – this year could see us put David Cameron into No 10. Conservative Future provides a campaigning backbone for the Conservative Party and it will be our members that put in an enormous amount of the groundwork to get Tory PPCs elected. Previously, there has been a lack of recognition for all the local campaigning all of you already perform, but I am determined to make sure that your efforts are better championed and rewarded. The entire Party still has a huge amount of work ahead of us but we should relish the challenge and remember the potential outcome: a Conservative Government.

The National Management Executive have made some striking changes in the last few months, most notably that we now have Regional Chairmen in place to provide extra support to branches. These people are a crucial addition to the national team as we aim to ready ourselves for a potential election: please do get in touch with yours and work together to improve your organisation locally. Encouraging more and better regional representation within Conservative Future has always been one of my main aims and I’m pleased to see that the RC’s have already made a positive impact ahead of the wider consultation on local structures.

So let’s work together, let’s campaign and let’s take this country back from the current leftist, statist control-freaks!

I wish you all a very successful 2009,

Michael Rock

2) Regional Chairmen

December 8th 2008 saw the creation of 12 Regional Chairmen (RC) positions, to form part of the national structure of Conservative Future. The National Management Executive (NME) has used section 8 of the Conservative Future constitution to create these positions.

The purpose of these positions is to give additional support to branches at a regional and local level. The four main areas of work the Regional Chairmen will focus on are branch development, regional campaigning, communication improvements and campaigns.

More about the RC’s
http://executive.cfbranch.com/2008/12/08/regional-chairmen-appointed/

Find yours
http://executive.cfbranch.com/contact/regional-chairmen/

3) Recent blog posts of interest
We welcome contributions from branches and members
http://executive.cfbranch.com/2008/12/04/guest-authors/

YBF – Every Monday Matters – week 1
http://executive.cfbranch.com/2009/01/06/every-monday-matters-week-1/

London CF Launch ‘Smash Brown’ game
http://executive.cfbranch.com/2008/12/23/london-cf-launch-smash-brown-game/

Social Action and Conservative Future
http://executive.cfbranch.com/2008/12/18/social-action-and-conservative-future/

Academies: The Future of Education?
http://executive.cfbranch.com/2008/12/17/academies-the-future-of-education/

Getting your message across
http://executive.cfbranch.com/2008/12/10/getting-your-message-across/

4) Inside CF
The main activities and areas that CF members are involved with

Student Life
Student Life is aimed at those CF members who are under-30 and in full or part time education.

http://executive.cfbranch.com/student-life/

Working Life
Working Life is aimed at those CF members who are in employment and under 30 years of age.

http://executive.cfbranch.com/working-life/

Exciting launch of Working Life Network coming soon – watch out for further details!

Social Action
CF takes a large role in social action projects across the UK. This is run by the CF Social Action Network

http://executive.cfbranch.com/social-action/

A look ahead to 2009 for CFSAN
http://cfsan.blogspot.com/2008/12/look-ahead-to-2009.html

5) Branches

Branch of the Month
A feature to highlight the great work our branches do, as well as providing advice and ideas to other branches.

Birmingham University Conservative Future

Back in October 2006 BUCF setup a blog and since then it has grown and grown. The blog is ready hundreds of people each week and won the Conservative Home ‘best young conservative blog’ award in 2007. This is a great way to communicate your message.

http://bucf.wordpress.com/

New Branch map

We have now launched a fully interactive branch map, showing CF branches across all of the UK. Let us know if your branch is not on the map, or the details are incorrect.
http://executive.cfbranch.com/branches/

6) Campaigns & events
We are running various ‘national’ campaigns and events and your branch can get involved. Visit the links to find out more.

CF backs NO2ID

Conservative Future officially supports NO2ID, the campaign against the Government’s planned ID card and National Identity Register.
http://executive.cfbranch.com/campaigns-events/cf-backs-no2id/

CFBranch

A free blog for any CF branch that wants to have one. CF needs to become a much more professional organisation and the starting point for that is to ensure that every branch has effective communication methods in place.
http://cfbranch.com/

7) Contact us

Conservative Future website:
http://www.conservativefuture.com

National Executive blog:
http://executive.cfbranch.com

Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Conservative-Future/22269108766

CF Exec twitter:
http://twitter.com/cfexec

The National Management Executive

Michael Rock, Chairman – michael@rock4cf.com

Christian May, Deputy Chairman, International Relations, Working Life – christianjmay@googlemail.com

Owen Meredith, Working Life, CF Wales Liaison – owen@owenmeredith.co.uk

Adele Douglas, Northern Board, Campaign North Liaison – adele.n.douglas@hotmail.co.uk

Steve Ricketts, Conservative Councillors – steven.ricketts@plymouth.gov.uk

Patrick Sullivan, Campaigning, Student Life – patricksullivan21@hotmail.com