About the Agents Association
The Agent's Association exist to help all Liberal Democrat agents be the most effective campaigners they can be. We offer Access courses to develop Agents potential, Advocacy giving real support to agents in the field, Action within the Party to improve the status of Agents, and Accreditation in developing a structure within which agents can develop and demonstrate their status within the Party.
If you are a Liberal Democrat Agent or Organiser, join us today.
November Returns - In the post shortly 15 November
The November issue of Returns will be in the post to all members shortly.
Read this Story in Full. AGM - Election Results 2 November
At the AGM the following people were elected to the Executive for 2009.
Chair - Chris Keating
Treasurer - Libby Calton
Executive Officers - Simon Drage, Lloyd Harris, Season Prater, Tim Prater.
There are vacancies for Vice-Chair, Secretary, and one Executive Member. The procedure for filling these vacancies will be announced shortly.
If you are interested in being on next year's Exec please contact the Chair-Elect, Chris Keating, on
chris.keating at libdems.org.uk Read this Story in Full. Agents Association AGM - 2nd November 08 22 October
Members should by now have received Returns with details of the 2008 Agents' Association AGM - this year on Sunday 2nd November from 11am. The venue is the Riverside Room, Browns Restaurant Butler's Wharf (see http://www.browns-
restaurants.com/details-butlerswharf.php for details and map).
This year, the AGM will have a short session for official business (including election of officers for 2009) followed by an afternoon of training provided by leading Party trainers. These sessions form the first part of the new Level 3 Accreditation scheme, being launched at the AGM - come along and hear more!
If you need more details or have any questions about the AGM, contact us at members@achievemore.org.uk. We hope to
see you there! Read this Story in Full. Albert Ingham Award 2008 22 October
Each year, the Agents' Association awards a prize in memory of the great Liberal agent Albert Ingham who ran many successful election campaigns and built strong teams of activists in the process!
The award is given to an election agent for a specific campaign, polling during the previous year (this time September 07-October 08). The agent themselves must be a volunteer (and campaigns involving members of the AOA exec are not eligible).
The winning campaign/agent will be the one which shows most success judged against three criteria:
- electoral success; either a gain, or a substantial swing to us, or a defence in difficult circumstances would meet this criteria
- campaign quality; we want to hear about the leaflets, canvassing and other campaigning techniques used, showing that the agent used best practice in running the election
- team development; the campaign should be one which changed the local team too, perhaps increasing membership or training up new activists.
You can nominate an agent for the Albert for this year by filling in a simple form either online at www.achievemore.org.uk or
by emailing the attached document back to albert@achievemore.org.uk. Your form must arrive by 9am Saturday 1st November to be considered for this year's award.
For more details, email Lloyd Harris at albert@achievemore.org.uk. Read this Story in Full. Membership Subscriptions - Now £20! 22 October
There are still a few members who have not amended their standing order payments to the new sub rate of £20. If this applies to you, please email libby@achievemore.org.uk to find out how to get your sub up to date! Read this Story in Full. Training a success at Federal Conference in Bournemouth 17 September
The Agents and Organisers Association has had a successful week in Bournemouth. The organisation has provided a good mix of training sessions all of which were part of the accreditation scheme.
Party Trainer Season Prater trained "Money, money, money!" along with Eastbourne Organiser Dan Purchese and said
"I was really impressed with the numbers who came to this session. There were a lot of good ideas shared by the participants.
"Dan and I will ensure that all these useful comments are shared with others"
If participants have any ideas for new training sessions for next conference - please get in touch! Read this Story in Full. Agents Association Exectutive 2008 22 November
Following the election for the executive member positions of the Agents and Organisers Association, the executive for 2008 will be:
- President: Candy Piercy
- Vice-Presidents: Hilary Stephenson, Victoria Marsom and Colin Ross
- Chair: Miranda Roberts
- Vice-Chair: Tim Prater
- Treasurer: Libby Calton
- Secretary: Ruth Wharram
- Executive Members: Chris Keating, Season Prater, Adam Teladia, Andrew Reeves and Lloyd Harris.
Condolences to Simon Drage, who missed out on election this time. Read this Story in Full. Revised Agents Manual Available NOW 4 October
A revised and updated version of the Agents Manual is now available for download (Agents Association members only - login required).
The updated edition integrates all the changes in election law which have occurred since the last edition (Feb 05). Read this Story in Full. Royal Mail FREEPOST Candidates Guidance Issued 4 October
The Royal Mail have issued a revised guide for candidates FREEPOST / Election Communication mailings for Parliamentary elections.
The revised pack dated October 2007 is available to logged in Agents Association members from the Resource Centre on this site, and from the Royal Mail web site. Read this Story in Full. New Agents' Manual Coming Soon! 1 October
A revised and updated version of the Agents Manual is being produced right now.
The updated edition integrates all the changes in election law which have occurred since the last edition (Feb 05) and will be fully up-to-date for a snap election. Read this Story in Full. New Agents Association Officers Elected 18 September
Miranda Piercy will be the new Chair of the Agents Association for 2008, with Tim Prater the new Vice Chair. Ruth Wharram has been elected as Secretary, and Libby Calton as Treasurer.
With more nominations than places, there will be an election for General Executive members, which will be held in the next few weeks. Read this Story in Full. Conference fringe meeting 21 July
The association's meeting, Local Best Practice - what worked for you, will take place on the Tuesday of the party's autumn conference. Read this Story in Full. Training day in south east region. 5 July
The next Agents' and Organisers' Association will hold its next training day on 11 August with the party's South East Region. This event will be free to current members of the association. Read this Story in Full. AGM date confirmed 3 July
The Agents' and Organisers' Association's 2007 AGM will take on Sunday 16 September from 1pm. The meeting will be in the Lancing 3 room of the Holiday Inn in Brighton. Read this Story in Full. New guidance and forms from the Electoral Commission 22 March
You can now download the latest Electoral Commission guidance from our members resources area. Read this Story in Full. New Returns now going out! 16 March
The latest copy of Returns, the Agents Association newsletter, is hitting doormats over the coming week.
Read this Story in Full. Returns and law briefing now online 15 February
You can now download the recent issue of our newsletter, Returns, along with the new Returns Briefing which includes news on the changes to election law for this May's elections. Read this Story in Full. Training at party conference - details 22 January
We can now confirm details of our training at the party's federal conference in Harrogate. Read this Story in Full.
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