Some CFers may want to get involved with this year’s Schools Question Time:
Schools Question Time is a Political Literacy and Citizenship Life Skills initiative supported by Parliament’s Education Service, the Institute for Citizenship and the BBC. The initiative is designed to provide a unique chance for young people to participate in activities which will encourage them to become active and informed citizens.
There are two strands to the initiative:
Schools Question Time Challenge – Applications for 2009/2010 are now open (until 15th November 2009)
An opportunity to put on your own Question Time …
This might seem like a slight obvious question, but many branches do not have a website. Tools like Facebook mean that some branches have not bothered with an independent online presence – and you must!
We need to be much more professional in the work we do and a good website is a very easy way to do this.
For over 18 months we’ve had CFBranch.com – a free website hosting offer for branches. Thanks to the kind support of Politicos Online any branch can setup a free website in seconds.
We’ve also …
The 6th Young Britons’ Foundation Activist Training Conference will take place from lunchtime on Friday, 23 October 2009 to lunchtime Sunday, 25 October 2009 at Wellington College, Berkshire.
This year’s YBF Conference will be much more interactive, with students working closely with mentors as they discuss how to handle a political war-game over the course of the weekend. Students will also get the chance to devise campaign strategy and design campaign materials, debate issues with conservative movement leaders and hone campaigning skills in readiness for the general election next year.
Confirmed …
This year’s Conference Social Action Project is working to transform the Radcliffe Girls and Boys Club.
Radcliffe Girls and Boys club started as a boys’ football club in the late 1960’s and evolved into a Girls and Boys club in the early 1970’s. The club was founded by Ronnie Morris, a former Conservative Mayor of Radcliffe, and his son, Cedric Morris is still involved with the club.
Since the 1970’s it has settled into its current role as a general activities club for young people from age 7 upwards. The older children …
A message from the ippr relating to an event they are hosting at Party Conference – they want feedback from CF members:
I’m Carey Oppenheim, Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), the UK’s leading progressive think tank. You may have been to one of our events before, this will our fourth year at Conservative Party Conference.
Recognising that the debate dominating Conference this year is the future of politics itself as well as the economy, ippr is hosting a key event at each of the three main conferences where …
One of the events being run in the Freedom Zone @ Conference is just for under 30s and is a great way for CF members to improve their public speaking skills:
TORIES GOT TALENT
Back by popular demand after the success of this event at last year’s Freedom Zone in Birmingham, TORIES GOT TALENT offers up-and-coming young Conservatives the chance to try out their public speaking skills in front of a large, friendly audience and to receive tips from expert judges on how to hone their speaking skills.
TORIES GOT TALENT will be …
Back in August South & East Cheshire CF organised a litter pick in one of their local play areas.
A message from Tim Dier, Chairman of IYDU:
The International Young Democrat Union is delighted that Germany’s Junge Union will be hosting this year’s Council Meeting in Berlin between Wednesday 25 and Sunday 29 November 2009. November marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and this will be a key theme of the event. Participants should expect to meet interesting and engaging high-level speakers and be treated with great hospitality and friendliness. There will also be visits to points of interest in Berlin.
Registration will open shortly …
The official Conservative Future Twitter account, @ConsFuture, has just broken the 2,000 mark for supporters – is your branch one of them?
Twitter is one of the leading names in new/social media (although Facebook is trying very hard to stop it) and provides an easy way for CF branches to spread their message. You can setup an account for free in a few minutes, and it allows you to share a short simple message with people across the country.
Not sure what Twitter is all about? The website Mashable has put a …
CF will be getting involved with the Freedom Zone this year; we’re going to have a stand and we’re hosting a debate. More info on those to come soon, but for now here is some background on the Freedom Zone:
The Freedom Association invites you to The Freedom Zone. The Freedom Zone is an event on the fringe of the Conservative Conference 2009 in Manchester. It is outside the security zone so anyone is welcome to attend and entry is free.
It will take place on the 5th and 6th October at …
