Friends of Sutton and Cheam Labour - Sutton and Cheam Labour Party

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 have maintained 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 as 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 directly to us here.
You could sign up to the Labour Lottery here and if you use the specific links on that page, then Sutton and Cheam CLP will get 50% of the funds.
We aim to hold 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. We held our first one on 21st June 2024.
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.

Note: 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 Candidates since 1983

Councillor Chrishni Reshekaron
Councillor Emily Brothers
Councillor Lisa Homan
Mark Alison
Geoff Martin
Loraine Monk
Geoff Dixon – recent election agent for the new Labour MP for Stourbridge

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

Croydon and Sutton GLA seat

London-wide GLA List Seats

Elected:

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

Note: Elly Baker is the current sitting Labour London list member and can be contacted via this link.

Stood for election:

Councillor John Howard
Councillor James Beckles
Councillor Bora Kwon
Councillor Jasbir Anand
Councillor Martin Whelton
Councillor Omid Miri
Devina Paul
Councillor Sian Eiles
Councillor Patrick Lilley
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-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

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

Gill Roles
Councillor Robert Evans
Andrew Mackinlay
Geoff Duncan

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