Sutton and Cheam Labour Party Sutton and Cheam Constituency Labour Party, London Borough of Sutton
Sutton Labour Member Training and Skills Programme
Below are a range of sequential links that can help with new member induction into the Local Party as well as providing training and skills opportunities as a member develops their involvement with us. This page will be developed further as we expand our own local training & skills programme for local members.
Party Values and History – A political education primer
As a new member, learn more about the Party, it’s values and its more than century of national and local campaigning for the democratic socialist values of equality and social justice. Here are a range of short and long articles, books, PowerPoints and lectures that you might find helpful:
Welcome to the Labour Party Powerpoint
Our Local Labour Party History
A century of Labour Government Achievements
1997-2010 Labour Government Top 50 Achievements
Lecture on the History of the Labour Party 1900-2018 by historian Vernon Bogdanor
History of the Labour Party 1914-1948 by G.D.H Cole
History of the Co-operative Movement
People’s History Museum Manchester online site
International Political Organisations that the Labour Party is affiliated to (at the bottom of this link)
How the Local Party Works
The following should help you understand how the local party operates and how you can participate:
Local Party Officer Role Descriptions
Local Affiliates to Sutton and Cheam Labour
Take part in Policy Making
The process by which Labour makes policy is set out here:
Labour National Policy Development Process
The local Party proposes policy ideas to National Policy Forum (NPF) consultations and also through motions and reference backs to Labour Party Annual Conference which we send delegates to:
Labour National Policy Forum (NPF)
The following link covers current and past policies of the Party (including all Labour Manifestos back to 1900) but also includes various declarations of principles the Party subscribes to:
Current and Past Labour National Policies
The Fabian Society Think Tank (a Labour Party affiliate) develops policy ideas and has a large series of recent publications to stimulate discussion:
Policy Issues – current Fabian Society Publications to stimulate ideas
The Fabian Society digital archive also has all their policy “tracts” publications back to 1884
Policy Issues – Fabian Society publications 1884-2000
The Local Party also takes part in London Labour Consultations on Policy and proposes Motions to the London Regional Conference which we send delegates to:
London Mayoral Manifesto & London Policies
The Local Party along with Carshalton & Wallington Labour Party helps develop local policies along with our Labour Councillors through a Sutton Borough Local Government Committee (LGC) which we send delegates to. Current local policies are set out below:
Local Manifesto and Local Policies
Get involved with campaigning in the local community and more widely
The local Party has campaign activities which are listed below:
You can also make phone calls from home to build our local engagement with voters. All the information you need is at this link:
Online Phone Bank to call voters
Members in our local branches can also develop their campaigning on local issues in their community and there are some useful toolkits to help below:
Community Involvement and Local Issue Campaigning
As well as local campaigning the Party is also involved in national campaigns and shows solidarity on global issues:
Training, Skills and Mentoring
In recent years the Party has strongly developed its training offer to members using online tools and webinars that can be accessed at the “Labour Learn” website which you can use the at website below to undertake training and skills acquisition at your own speed. It is particularly good at helping you to develop skills such as doorstep and online campaigning and learning to run an election campaign:
National “Labour Learn” Online Training Hub
You can also take part in many national live online training webinars below. We will be supplementing this with local training either face to face or online.
Upcoming National Online Training Webinars
The Party has a Future Candidate’s Programme it advertises from time to time. Labour affiliates also organise future candidate training programmes:
Labour Unions individual and collective Political Schools
Co-operative Party Candidate Development Programme
There are also national level Leadership Skills training programmes to encourage Women and Black members and locally we also try to ensure all equalities strands are taken account of in our own local training:
Labour Women’s Network Training Programmes
Labour Women’s Network “Making your mark” online training course
Jo Cox Women in Leadership Programme
Bernie Grant Leadership Programme
Standing for Election for the Labour Party
Useful Guidance on this is here:
How to Stand for Election for the Labour Party
This information above will be supplemented by online webinars run by the national, regional and local Party to encourage members to step forward to stand for us