Get involved with our Local Party Alumni Network and Network of local supporters and friends of the local party.

Sutton and Cheam Labour has a long history and many people have been active in it and moved away or on to other things. As a result we are developing a network that will continue to keep us in touch with:

• Our Alumni Network – members who have moved away from the area. We now have a developing mailing list to inform them about important issues of interest,
• Members from other areas who have campaigned with us locally over the years such as some of our former candidates for public office.
• Those who like the often pioneering social and political work we do within the Party and local community and want to support us in various ways to continue this work.
• Registered Affiliated Supporters of the Local Party – we have had just under 300 of these since 2015 and we maintain contact at various times.
• Local Affiliated Trade Union Members, Members of Trade Unions Affiliated to the TUC, Co-operators, members of Affiliated Socialist Societies and the members of local public campaigns that we as a Party support who see themselves are part of the wider Labour, Trade Union and Co-operative Movement but who have not yet made the step of joining the Local Party.
• Former members who may have left the Party at some point but still value the local friendships they established with us when they were a member.

What you can do as a Friend?

• If you want to be added to our mailing list contact us at: suttoncheamclp@gmail.com
• If you want to show further support for us you can make a one-off or regular donation to us here.
• We will consider holding an “Annual Reunion” online Zoom meeting each year (possibly near our 21st June founding date) to commemorate our founding over a century ago to celebrate the lives of our late members and former local members and will encourage Friends of the CLP to suggest additions to our comprehensive local history.
• If you are a former local member and in the Party elsewhere in the UK and want to help our election campaigns you can phone our local voters here.
• If you want to come and help our election campaigns go to this page here.
• If you are not a member here or elsewhere and enjoy your relationship with us you can volunteer to help here or apply to join the Party here.

Please note with the exception of Registered Affiliated Supporters (who may have specific voting rights in future Leadership Elections) inclusion in any Friends of Sutton Labour mailing list is solely a decision of the Local Party and does not incur any rights or responsibilities for either the Party or the individual. It is merely a mailing list to keep people in touch and encourage friendship and solidarity.

Friends List

We may at some point produce a public list of “Friends” and if you and the local Party were happy with it we would include you on this page.

Former Constituency Party Members in other areas

Examples of relatively recent former members of our CLP currently active in other areas or recognised fields of public activity include:

• Matthew Pennycook MP for Greenwich and Woolwich
• Morgan McSweeney – Director of Campaigns at the Labour Party
• Enid Bakewell MBE – A member of the English Women’s Cricket World Cup winning team of 1973.
• Lester Holloway – Editor of the Voice Newspaper
• Adrian Lovett – Former Director of Jubilee 2000 & the Drop the Debt campaign and Chief Executive of Development Initiatives
• Frank Syratt – Former Chief Executive of the Ramblers Association
• Alan Olive – Former Regional Director of the London Labour Party

Recent Election Candidates for us – former members or members from other areas

Examples of members of the Labour Party (either from other areas or former members who have moved away) who have stood for us in more recent elections include:

Sutton and Cheam Parliamentary Elections

• Councillor Emily Brothers
• Councillor Lisa Homan
• Mark Alison
• Geoff Martin
• Loraine Monk
• Geoff Dixon

Note: Other recent Parliamentary Candidates are Anand Shukla, Kathy Allen and Bonnie Craven who are still local CLP members.

Croydon and Sutton GLA seat

• Councillor Patsy Cummings
• Marina Ahmad AM
• Louisa Woodley
• Councillor Shafi Khan
• Councillor Sean Fitzsimons

London-wide GLA List Seats

Elected:

• Tom Copley
• Fiona Twycross
• Murad Qureshi
• Nicky Gavron
• Jennette Arnold
• Diana Johnson MP
• David Lammy MP
• Trevor Phillips

Note: Elly Baker and Sakina Sheikh are current sitting Labour London list members and can be contacted via this link.

Stood for election:

• Councillor Emine Ibrahim
• Faduma Hassan
• Sophie Charman-Blower
• Bob Littlewood
• Councillor Miriam Mirwitch
• Shahina Jaffer
• Taranjit Chana
• James Beckles
• Alison Moore
• Preston Tabois
• Feryal Demirci MP,
• Councillor Mike Katz
• Councillor Emily Brothers
• Bevan Powell
• Sara Hyde
• Florence Nosegbe MP
• Unmesh Desai AM
• Kirsten Hearn
• Liquat Ali
• Mabel McKeown
• Kevin McGrath
• Christine Quigley
• Ranjit Dheer
• Balvinder Saund
• Leonie Cooper AM
• Ansuya Sodha
• Councillor Shafi Khan
• Alex Heslop
• Sally Mulready
• Karen Helena Hunte
• Virendra Sharma MP
• Martin Jonathan Lindsay
• Bernadette Lappage
• Raj Chandarana
• Muhammed Abdal Ullah
• Joseph Paul Docherty
• Abdul Asad
• Pamela Wharfe
• Katy Thorne
• Navin Shah

London South and the London South & Surrey East European Parliament Seats

• Gill Roles
• Councillor Robert Evans
• Andrew Mackinlay

London-wide European Parliament Seat

Elected:

• Lucy Anderson
• Seb Dance
• Councillor Robert Evans
• Claude Moraes
• Mary Honeyball
• Pauline Green

Stood for election:

• Katy Clark MSP
• Laura Parker
• Taranjit Kaur Chana
• James Beckles
• Ivana Bartoletti
• Kamaljeet Jandu
• Sanchia Alasia
• Andrea Biondi
• Anne Fairweather
• Kevin McGrath
• Emma Jones
• Raj Jethwa
• Nilgun Canver
• Anita Pollack
• Hugh Malyan
• Steph Elsy
• Jane Briginshaw
• Jo Ejiofor
• Carole Tongue
• Shaun Spiers
• Munir Malik
• Pam Wharfe
• Michael Elliott

Examples of various types of alumni who have subsequently passed away can be read on our CLP In Memoriam page.