Manchester Labour Students

Campaigning for the Future

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee organises our events, campaigns and membership. Our Executive Committee is a group of Labour Students either attending the University of Manchester or Manchester Metropolitan University. It's lead by the two co-Chairs, one from each University. All Executive Members have a defined role within Manchester Labour Students. The Executive Committee is elected at the Annual General Meeting in November/December each year.

Honorary Presidents
   
John Mann MP  Honorary Co-President: John Mann MP

John is MP for Bassetlaw who is a former Chair of Manchester Labour Students, Sabbatical Welfare Officer at UMSU and National Chair of Labour Students.
   
Bev Hughes MP  Honorary Co-President: Bev Hughes MP

Bev is MP for Stretford and Urmston in Trafford.
   
Executive Officers
 
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Co-Chair (MMU): Lauren Day-Cooper

Lauren's role is to oversee and give general direction for Manchester Labour Students, chairing the Man Met Labour Club.
   
Andy
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Co-Chair (UoM): Andrew Campbell

Andrew's role is also to oversee and give general direction for Manchester Labour Students and chair the University of Manchester Labour Club.
   

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Labour Party Campaigns Officer: Bill Martin

Bill is responsible for our campaigning with and for the Labour Party, be it locally in Manchester or nationally.
   
 

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Membership Officer: Tamoor Tariq

Tamoor is responsible for keep all our records up to date and working to get some of our less-active members more involved.
   

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Political Events Officer: Elsie Wraighte

Elsie is responsible for organising our political events including visiting speakers and Policy Forums.
 
   
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Publicity Officer: Ben Furber

Ben is responsible for our blog/website and keeping our members up to date with what is going on. Ben also represents Manchester Labour Students on the Manchester Young Labour Committee.
   

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Secretary (MMU): Josh Terry

Josh is responsible for keeping our paper-work in order at MMU and registering our MMU members to national events.
   

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Secretary (UoM): Talia Akhtar

Talia is responsible for keeping our paper-work in order at UoM and registering our UoM members to national events.
 

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Social Secretary: Francesca Lemanczyk

Francesca is responsible for organising our club socials.
   

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Students' Unions Campaigns Officer: Fionnuala McGoldrick

Fin's role involves coordinating our campaigns at UMSU, MMUnion and within NUS.
   

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Treasurer (MMU): Luke Pollard

Luke looks after the finances of the MMU Labour Club.
   
Hannah
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Treasurer (UoM): Hannah Spector

Hannah's job is to manage the club finances including planning and funding. Hannah is also a Labour Students National Committee member.
   
Liberation Officers
   
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BAME Officer: Rashad Raoufi

Rashad is responsible for representing BAME students on the Executive, running MLS BAME events and caucuses.
   
Vacant Disabled Students Officer: Vacant

The Disabled Students Officer is responsible for representing Disabled Students' on the Executive. This post is vacant due to graduation.
   

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LGBT Officer: Curtis McLellan

Curtis is responsible for representing LGBT students on the Executive, running MLS LGBT events and caucuses.
   
 
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Women's Officer: Elsie Wraighte

In addition to being Political Events Officer, as Women's Officer, Elsie is responsible for organising Manchester Labour Students Women in Red events and for representing women on the Executive.
   
Ex-Officio Executive Members

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President of MMUnion: Rob Boardman

Rob is the President of MMUnion. Rob attends Executive as Leader of the MMUnion Labour Group.

Contacting the Committee 

To contact any members of the Executive Committee, click on their names to email them.

Alternatively follow one of the other buttons under their photo to find them via other sites:

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Former Club Chairs 

If you're interested in some of the past history of Manchester Labour Students, take a look at the list of previous chairs here.

Manchester City Labour Party Delegates 

Manchester Labour Students sends 5 delegates to Manchester City Labour Party meetings, you can take a look at our current delegates here

Election Results

Most of the current Committee took over in December 2009, the election results can be found below:

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