1. Welsh Young Labour

2. Welsh Labour Students

What is Welsh Young Labour?

Welsh Young Labour is made up of every Labour Party member aged 15-27 (15 is the minimum age for joining the Labour Party) living in Wales.

Top 10: our aims and objectives

1. To help young Labour Party members play a full and active role within the Wales Labour Party.
2. To organise local social activities for young Welsh Labour members.
3. To train and politically educate young Labour Party members in Wales.
4. To change the culture, particularly the meetings culture, of the Labour Party at branch and constituency level, and to organise more social activities.
5. To persuade more young people to vote Labour at local, European, Welsh Assembly and general elections.
6. To recruit and retain many more young people into Labour Party membership.
7. To campaign against all forms of discrimination and prejudice, especially those based on race, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation or gender.
8. To reverse the declining number of young people who are registered to vote.
9. To maximise the number of postal votes from young people.
10. To cut through bureaucracy

What’s the difference between Welsh Young Labour and Welsh Labour Students?

Welsh Young Labour is the name given to Welsh Labour Party members between 15 and 27. Welsh Labour Students is an organisation affiliated to the Labour Party and its members do not have to be members of the Labour Party – although they often are – nor do they have to fall within the Young Labour age bracket. Only members of Labour Students who are members of the Labour Party have the full membership rights of other Party members.

Welsh Labour Students and Welsh Young Labour work closely together in their campaigning and social activities.

How do I join Welsh Young Labour?

If you are a member of the Labour Party, you automatically become a member of Young Labour if you fall into the age range, providing we have your date of birth in the membership system. If you don’t think we have your age details please email us wales@new.labour.org.uk or phone us on 02920 877700 and update us with your details.

If you are not a member of the Labour Party but would like to join you can do so by clicking http://www.labour.org.uk/joinus or by calling 08705 900 200.

Welsh Young Labour contact details

Please telephone the Labour Party on 08705 900 200 and ask for details or email us at wales@new.labour.org.uk.

Letters should be addressed to:

WEC Youth Representative
Wales Labour Party
Transport House
1 Cathedral Road
Cardiff
CF11 9HA

Welsh Labour Students is  affiliated to Welsh Labour and is the umbrella organisation for Labour Clubs based at universities in Wales.

Welsh Labour Students organises across Wales, from Cardiff to Llanelli, from Swansea to Wrexham. We fight for Labour values, to support Rhodri Morgan's Administration in the National Assembly, and to expose the Tories' lamentable history of running down Wales and their lack of support for devolution. In addition we are a key part of Labour Students and campaign outside of Wales with the rest of Labour Students.

At the Welsh Assembly elections in May 2007, Welsh Labour Students campaigned across Wales to return Labour AMs to Cardiff Bay. We put in hundreds of campaign hours, delivering leaflets, phone canvassing and pounding the streets. We work in partnership with local parties and with our friends in the wider Labour movement to ensure that progressive values frame the Welsh political debate.

Welsh Labour Students Officers

Chair: Estelle Hart

Vice Chair - Mid & North Wales: Dan Weir

Vice Chair - South: Simon Darvill

Womens Officer: Michaela Nield

Contact Details

e-Mail: welshlabourstudents@googlemail.com