By Simon Iles (BUCA Chairman)
In a city dominated by the Liberal Democrats and Labour for years, the Bristol University Conservative Association is in a difficult position. However, in effectively relaunching the association this year, we achieved decent results at the recent Freshers’ Fair. Signing up over 30 paid members, recruiting a number of existing national members and assembling a 100-strong mailing list, we hopefully will have a solid group of members to create an active social and political calendar over the coming months.
With the General Election coming up, BUCA members …

By Alex Clarke (Chairman EECF)
Thursday the 1st of October was the culmination of a week of Fresher focused activity by the EECF…all of which was done on a budget of £0 and a box of goodies provided by the Conservative Future National Executive.
Instead of running a stall at the Epsom Campus of the University of the Creative Arts; we ‘canvassed’ it for two days running with teams of CF committee members armed with national leaflets provided in the centrally dispatched pack. When we ran out of those we used the …

Clare currently has three main roles in the Conservative Party; working as a Councillor in Croydon, as Chair of London Conservative Future and serving as Vice Chair of Student Life:

2009 has been a year of numerous campaign days, meetings and social action projects and 2010 is going to be busier!

London CF is campaigning every week across London, providing strong support in crucial target seats in the run up to the general election.

Last week Universities of Manchester Conservative Future once again embarked upon the rough seas that is political campaigning at the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University.

Over the three days of freshers’ fairs at both universities, around 20 different activists from the University and all over Manchester came down to help out at our three stalls, outgunning the Labour and the LibDems, who struggled to keep even one stall afloat.

By David Bean

On Wednesday 30 September the Conservatives became the only political party to be represented at the freshers’ fairs for all four universities in Greater Manchester. We capped off the season, which began the previous week with Manchester and then proceeded through Manchester Metropolitan and Salford, with a visit to Bolton University, a campus traditionally only the Conservatives have shown interest in engaging with. But with many of its students part-time, mature or from linguistic backgrounds other than English, it has proven a tough nut to crack.
Planning our visit, …

Having previously been the Chairman of the University of East Anglia (UEA) Conservative Future branch for two years it was a pleasure to be invited back to help out at their stall at this years Fresher’s Faire.
CF has long been the dominate political force amongst the mainstream groups at UEA. This year proved to be no different and the Party for Change message went down exceptionally well with the new freshers. Once again we were able to succeed in recruiting more paid members than any of the other political parties, …

By Sophie King (Fylde CF Chair)

Last Saturday, the Fylde Branch of Conservative Future and Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Mark Menzies launched the Save the Great British Pub campaign in the Fylde.
Conservative Future spent the morning in St Annes Town Centre petitioning for more Government support to the British Pub industry. Mark Menzies and members of Conservative Future then visited the Lytham Beer Festival during the afternoon.
Save the Great British Pub is a national Conservative campaign. The Conservative Party are calling on the Government to help save pubs and safeguard jobs by:

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The Fresher Fair drive across Yorkshire has been going extremely well this year. So far we’ve had CF man stalls in York St John, Huddersfield, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford and Barnsley. This week it will be the turn of Hull University which will finish off our recruitment drive for another year! Never before has Yorkshire CF been able to base itself in this many locations across our Region.
We’ve been able to recruit hundreds of new members which has been fantastic. I’d like to thank every young Tory who has supported the …

Showing that politics has never been more relevant to young people, The Nottingham University Conservative Association (NUCA) have recorded a massive uptake in membership at this year’s Freshers’ Fayre, exceeding the numbers for the same time last year despite a £2 increase in membership fee.
The President of the Conservative Association at Nottingham, Nick Allsopp said “Response has been overwhelmingly positive; a lot of people who have never been involved with the Conservatives before are coming up and joining; seeking to find out more about the party, to get involved and …

The Freshers’ fair season is the most important time of the year for Conservative Future; providing the main recruiting opportunity for our branches.

The first packs went out two weeks ago and we’re now starting to hear feedback from branches.

By the end of September we will have sent out 244 boxes to CF branches in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; a 70% increase on the number of packs sent last year.