I hope you’re all doing well and are looking forward to the Xmas period!

I am sending you our latest but long bulletin just so you know everything that’s going on in Huddersfield Conservative Future and how you can get involved.

Latest Event
Huddersfield Conservative Future had a great night last week at laser quest where we played 3 different games for just £6. We went to some bars afterwards where we had various discussions, played table football, pool and on games machines. Thanks for all who came to this and for Harry Doodson our HCF President for organising it and who also came top of each game out over 40 players.

Next Event
Following on from the successful dinner in Leeds I am organising a Huddersfield Conservative Xmas Curry Night for HCF and our local association where I am also an Officer which will be held on Tuesday the December 6th from 7.20pm.at the Huddersfield Central Lodge11/15 Beast Market, HD1 1QF (Opposite Eden Night Club and formerly Johnny’s). They have plenty of free parking at the back and their website can be viewed at www.centrallodge.com. I will buy a drink on the house for those people who signed up to our group but haven’t been involved yet.

5 Course Buffet for just £7.95 and English dishes are on offer if you’re not a curry fan. Set meals on offer and of course a choice of other Indian & Asian cuisine. For more information please view their website at www.shababrestaurant.co.uk. The address is 37 New Street, Huddersfield HD1 2BQ.

We will be arriving at Shabab Restaurant (near HSBC) in the Town Centre at the booked time of around 8pm. You don’t have to go for a drink beforehand if you don’t want and I and others will meet you at the restaurant likewise if you’re not coming to the meal you can drop in at the bar.

It’s upto you what you want to wear for this event.

More details of the Curry Night can be found at www.facebook.com/events/240803165978663 and through our website http://huddersfieldcf.wordpress.com where you need to look under the “Events” page.

All are welcome but if you can say whether you’re coming or not ASAP that would be great. No problems if you forget as you can just turn up on the day.

Future Event
In January I will look at organising a trip to the Cinema to watch the Iron Lady. To get a taste of the movie please view it’s trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSiXVVdw0Yc. If interested in this then please do get in touch.

National Conservative Future
Philip Smith is putting himself forward for a chance to become part of the team for the National Conservative Future group http://www.conservativefuture.com. Philip has done a lot for young conservatives in Yorkshire and also played a key role in keeping our HCF going. To view why he is standing and his policies please either click on the link or copy and paste the attached link into your browser http://www.facebook.com/pages/Philip-Smith-for-National-DC-Political/266837273327450.

Yorkshire & Humberside CF
HCF member Chris Meadows and also uploaded his last blog about his experience over the last month or so on Yorkshire CF. If interested read over at http://yorkshirecf.wordpress.com. Chris helped with our stall at Fresher’s Fayre and attended the Policy Forum with fellow HCF member Mark Dodsworth.

Media/Branch
HCF would like congratulate Katie Frank who appeared on Leeds radio to air her views on Tuition fees.
Katie is also trying to get a group CF going at a College and trying to get her friends involved with HCF.

Members View
Eddie Skinner “I really enjoy being part of CF. I’ve only been a member for two months and it’s already like having a second family”.

Get Involved/Contacts
No worries if you haven’t got involved in our group so far as there is always something going on and remember this is your group so you can do as little or as much as you want.

If you do want to get involved in HCF in anyway such as being on the committee, getting involved in campaign activity, if you have got a question, some ideas to improve HCF or want further information please don’t hesitate to contact either myself, any of the officers or post on the groups wall as we will be more than happy to help.

Get the latest information on HCF by showing your support by joining and adding your friends to our Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/groups/huddersfieldcf/

Feel free to forward this bulletin to your friends.

P.S A big thank you to everybody involved in HCF for all your efforts since Freshers’ Fayre and with your continued support we can continue to grow.

Thanks
Robert McGuin
On Behalf of Huddersfield Conservative Future
robert.mcguin@hotmail.co.uk
07598917198

http://huddersfieldcf.wordpress.com/

If you do not want to receive emails from Huddersfield CF then please contact us and we will remove you from our database.

First of all I would like to say a thank you to those who attended the Conservative Future dinner in Leeds. We had a great discussion with fellow CFers/MP and the food and drink wasn’t bad either.

Some of us went to a Conservative Halloween Ball where we enjoyed great food, wine, raffle, tombola, band, auction etc as well as great company.

There was number of you who came to the Huddersfield Conservative Association meeting the other week which was very much appreciated.

Next Tuesday on the 8th Huddersfield Conservative Future will be doing Lazerquest. This event is just off St Johns Road (Opposite the Ringway Centre) and will start from 8.30pm which costs just £6 for 3 games! For more information please visit our facebook group and http://www.laserzone.cc/. There are 9 of us confirmed as attending so far.

I am expecting 2 of our HCF members to be standing in the Local Council Elections next year.

Harry our HCF President and I have sent a press release to the University Student paper about our group and we along with other HCF members are trying to get more advertisement of our group at the University.

Jason McCartney MP has kindly agreed to get some exposure of our group in his next newsletter.

I think I have covered everything but if you want to keep up to date with what’s happening with our group the join our facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/hudder​sfieldcf or view and add our website to your favorites at http://huddersfieldcf.wordpres​s.com/

If you want to get in touch about our group then please do contact me via email me robert.mcguin@hotmail.co.uk or phone/txt on my new number at 07598917198.

P.S Feel free to add your firends to our facebook group.

Thanks
Robert McGuin

I would like to say a big thank you to everybody that attended our social gathering at Varsity especially given the weather.

We had a great discussion of who we all are, what are thoughts were on the national party, introduction to the local association/Conservative future and of course our own branch.

On a personal note it is fantastic to see after I and others helped set up the group 4 years ago that Huddersfield Conservative Future has never been as big as it is now. I and others have seen the dark days of HCF such as organising a meeting and I am the only one being there. However I have stayed loyal to the group when others pursued other things and hopefully considering after last year’s success with the efforts of Stephen, Chris, Harry Andy and others this year and for a few more years to come HCF can continue to grow and become more of a success.

In the future we are looking to have campaign days, more meetings, advertising our group at Uni, debates at Uni, Refreshers Fayre, Organising and attending association/HCF/Conservative Future meetings and events etc.

Our next event will be at Browns Restaurant in Leeds where we will be joining other CF members and an MP for a meal. This is Next Saturday starting at 7.30pm and if you are interested and want further information then please click copy and paste the link into your web browser http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=205713972825955. We will be meeting at the Head of Steam Pub(next to Huddersfield Train Station) from 6.15pm and catching a train at 6.45pm

If you or any of your friends want to get involved in HCF in anyway such as being on the committee, if you have got a question, some ideas to improve HCF or want further information please don’t hesitate to contact either myself, any of the officers or through our Facebook group as we will be more than happy to help.

P.S Hopefully we will be having a Curry night with MP Jason McCartney soon so watch this space.

If you do not want to recieve emails about Huddersfield CF please contact us and we will remove you from our database.
Thank You
Robert McGuin
Committee Member
robert.mcguin@hotmail.co.uk
07598917198

http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/huddersfieldcf/

http://huddersfieldcf.wordpress.com/

What’s Been Going On?

In January HCF had a stand at the Huddersfield University refreshers fayre. Existing HCF members spoke to students interested in joining the Conservative party (and those not interested!). This was a successful day and helped to raise the profile of HCF within the University.

HCF at Huddersfield University has also established good links with the other political societies, with social gatherings taking place. Conservative, Labour and Socialist members drinking together, who’d have thought it!

In May members of HCF took part in local election campaigning in Kirklees. knocking on doors, delivering leaflets and trying not to get bitten by angry dogs, its all part of the fun on the election trail.

HCF also had three members standing as candidates in the local election:
Christopher Meadows – Dalton Ward – 892 Votes
Robert McGuin – Greenhead Ward – 972 votes
Louisa Waple – Crosland Moor and Netherton – 1151 votes

All three candidates achieved impressive results in their respective wards and it extremley encouraging for the Huddersfield Conservative Future branch to be fielding candidates in an election. HCF members also helped out with campaigning in other regions including the high profile Oldham by-election.

HCF members have attended a number of important Conservative party events such as Spring Forum in Cardiff and the Yorkshire Conference at Wetherby racecourse.

Upcoming Events

Curry Night with Colne Valley MP Jason McCartney. This will be a great opportunity for us to meet, chat and discuss the future of HCF as well as having the company of one our most supportive members of parliament.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219300204761945

Pie and Peas Quiz Night on the 16th July.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105718392855122

The Huddersfield Conservative Association will also hold an Ordinary General Meeting on Tuesday 12th July, 8pm at Kirkheaton Conservative Club. This is a good opportunity for HCF members to meet members of the association and understand how the professional party associations operate. If you would like to attend this meeting please feel free to contact me and I will send you an agenda for the meeting. HCF can provide lifts to the meeting.

Party Conference – The Big One!

If you are planning on attending the 2011 Conservative Party conference in Manchester make sure to register by 17:30 on Thursday 30th June before the price goes up!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=216006501772942

Facebook
For more information or if you want to have your say on HCF please check out our facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56454121016

A big thank you to everybody involved in HCF and with your continued support we can continue to grow.

Best Regards
Christopher Meadows
Huddersfield Conservative Future

I hope you’re all doing well and you’re keeping warm from this cold weather!

It has been a fairly quiet time with Huddersfield Conservative Future since our last bulletin as we have now completed most of our targets in getting our new society group up and running.

Achievements
I thought it would be a good idea just to cap on some of the main thing’s we as a group have achieved over the last 2 months;

· We have booked a stall at the Fresher’s Fair/manned it /ordered and gave out freebies and collected a data base of those such as you who are interested in our group.

· We have kept in contact with you about updates of our society group through bulletins(such as this one).

· We have organised and had meetings under our belt.

· We have filled out lots of paperwork such as a constitution to get our group registered as a society at our University. So we can apply for funding and get support etc.

· We have elected a committee.

· We have updated our Facebook page, website and we are now on the SU webpage.

· We have responded to everyone who has been in contact with us

· We have attended a Yorkshire CF event.

· We have had our CF member writing a piece and it being printed in the SU newspaper.

· Etc

The Future
Over the coming months we hope to build on all of the above by getting more members, more committee members, more publicity around the University, to participate in more debates, to participate in political campaigns in and around Huddersfield, to have a stall at another Uni Fair, to attend more events, organise more trips etc.

Events
Some of us from Huddersfield Conservative Future will be attending a Yorkshire Conservative Future meet and greet event Next Sunday in Leeds at Bar 4 from 7.30pm. There will be free food on offer! If you like to attend the event or want further information please view the link below;

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=128774847181220

There is also an Holly & Ivy event from 7.30pm on Saturday December the 11th. This will be a great chance to meet other likeminded Conservatives and hopefully MP Jason McCartney will be there. The cost will be £15 each but that’s a bargain as it includes entrance fee, a hot buffet, mixture of deserts and lot’s of alcohol and soft drinks with all money being raised going to the local party and there will be a raffle as well. It will be pay on the day and afterwards the intention is for HCF to go round the bars and clubs in Huddersfield! We can sort out transport as well! So if you’re interested in this event please do get in with us.

Membership
If you have liked what we have achieved and like our future ambitions then why not become a member of Huddersfield Conservative Future? If you would like to join then please view this link http://www.huddersfieldstudent.com/izone/content/522053/conservative_future/ By joining Huddersfield Conservative Future for only £5 you will be eligible to be on the committee, have full voting rights, be giving money to us so we can expand our group, you will be also showing your support of the group as well as receiving other benefits.

Links
http://huddersfieldcf.wordpress.com View our Website and add it to your Favourites.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=26447260962 Show your support of HCF by joining our Facebook Group.

Contact
Please feel free to contact me at anytime if you want to get involved in the group in anyway, if you want further information or if you have any questions.

P.S Please feel free to forward this email onto anyone that might be interested in HCF.

P.P.S Huddersfield Conservative Future would like to congratulate Stephen Smith on being elected as Union Councillor at our University

Thanks
Robert McGuin
Huddersfield Conservative Future Member
07935564370
robert.mcguin@hotmail.co.uk

Our next meeting will be held on THURSDAY 28TH OCTOBER @ 7.30 IN VARSITY (on the second floor). It is the same venue as we had our first meeting but just a reminder if for whatever reason you didn’t attend that meeting the venue is just across from your University.

A FREE DRINK of your choice will be on offer to those who didn’t attend the first meeting but come to the next meeting!

For all those attending can I ask you to bring £5 as this will cover your official membership to Huddersfield Conservative Future and the expenditure the group acquires in the future e.g. cost of publicity material etc but afraid it will not cover everything e.g. the cost of attending a partner event like some of us attended in Leeds the other week.

There are positions still available to be on the committee and we are now going to extend the deadline of Today to that of during our next meeting.

Positions still available include
Treasurer
Secretary
Equipment and Uniforms officer

Positions filled include

Membership Secretary- Andrew Macaulay
Publicity Secretary – Chris Meadows
Vice President – Harry Doodson

If you would like to be on the committee but the position is filled or we have not advertised it no worries as we as a society group are happy to negotiate in swapping positions or creating new positions. However you must get in touch ASAP or alternatively raise your interest (as some did from our last email) at our next meeting otherwise you might not get your preferred choice on the committee!
Also at this meeting we will be discussing our first political action day, our target seats, social events etc I will also be asking for volunteers to join me on the ‘march against the rise of tuition fees which will cost only £5 and will mean a trip to London!

I hope to see you there but again just in case you need reminding there is no problem if you can’t attend for whatever reason as this is your group so you can get involved in as little or as much as you like!!

P.S As always if you have any comments, questions etc please feel free to contact me and if you know of anybody that would be interested in getting involved in our group then feel free to pass on our emails or alternatively send us their contact details.

Thanks

Stephen Smith
Huddersfield Conservative Future President
stephen.smith@yorkshirecf.com
07533240844

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=26447260962

We had a very good meeting and discussed about campaigning, work experience opportunities, social events, National and local politics etc No problem if you didn’t attend!

Still want to get involved with Huddersfield Conservative Future?

Perhaps you want to be a committee member?

Committee positions are still available and positions available are;

Secretary
Treasurer
Kit and Uniforms Officer and Publicity Officer

Other positions can be created if you want to be on the committee.

If you wish to fill one of these positions or want to be a committee member with a different role then just call me on 07533240844 or email me at stephen.smith@yorkshirecf.com

The deadline for the interest in being a committee member is MONDAY 18TH OCTOBER

Where on Facebook to so pleases feel free to join us on Facebook and browse our site.

HCF Facebook Group http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=26447260962&ref=ts

Our next meet up is with fellow New Yorkshire CF members on the 7th of October from 7.30pm. There will be plenty of drink and food on offer. For more details please see the link at http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=156208054404374

Please feel free to contact me on the above details at any time if you have any questions etc

P.S Let me give a big congratulations to our New Vice president Harry Doodson, don’t be scared to add him on Facebook.

Cheers

Stephen Smith

President of Huddersfield Conservative Future

Why not join us for a drink on September 24th @ 6.30pm, just across from the Uni and we will explain what we are about and what is in it for you!

FIRST DRINK IS ON US!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t miss out on work experience opportunities, social events and a chance to be involved in political debate and on the front line of MP’s campaign teams.

Please feel free to contact me at any time and if you can’t make it for any reason no worries as there will be many other activities to come, or join us at HUDDERSFIELD CONSERVATIVE FUTURE on FACEBOOK!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=26447260962

Stephen Smith
Tel 07533240844
email stephen.smith@yorkshirecf.com
Huddersfield University Conservative Future president – Yorkshire and the Humber – Conservative Party

Below are some of our achievements;
We have a website
We have a facebook Group
A committee
We have a bank account for some donations kindly given to us. As a result we are officially an organisation and have the ability to try things we couldn’t do.
We have had stalls at Fresher’s Fairs.
Action days.
Photos taken.
Social gatherings.
Our group is linked on other sites.
We have appeared in some media.
Had presence at meetings.
Worked in partnership with other groups.
Etc

As a result we have played a small but significant part in helping win our two partnered target seats of Colne Valley and Dewsbury!!!

Thank you for all your help in helping us achieve the above. Who knows what the future will bring but if you have any thoughts, ideas etc of how we go about moving forward or if you want to get involved then please feel free to get in touch.

Thanks
KCF

Description Members of Kirklees CF will be out supporting Janice on Saturday meeting at 10.30am Cleckheaton bus station.

Please feeel free to contact me at louisa.waple@yorkshireconservatives.org.uk or leave a message on the “Wall” if you need further information.

http://www.facebook.com/video/?upload&oid=396815903626#!/event.php?eid=396815903626

Louisa x