Friday 9 March AUDITORIUM FRINGE SESSION SOCIAL PROGRAMME CONSULTATION Southport Theatre & Convention Centre secure zone 1430 14 3 0 14 3 0 150 0 150 0 150 0 153 0 153 0 153 0 1600 16 0 0 16 0 0 Doors open 16:30 1630 16 3 0 16 3 0 170 0 170 0 170 0 First Timers' Q&A 173 0 173 0 173 0 Consultative session: Tuition fees in Higher Education Consultative session: Power for People and Communities Consultative session: Immigration, refugees & identity 1800 18 0 0 18 0 0 1830 18 3 0 18 3 0 Conference Rally 1900 19 0 0 19 0 0 1930 19 3 0 19 3 0 2000 2000 2000 First Timers' Reception Reforming business rates and council tax Action for Land Taxation and Economic Reform Be a Councillor: Women in Local Government Book Launch ALDC & LGA What Brexit Means for the North of England Catherine Bearder MEP / ALDE The Liberal Party & Women's Suffrage Lib Dem History 2030 2030 2030 2100 2100 2100 Doors close 20:45 2130 2130 2130 s Quiz Tickets 7 available on the door 2200 2200 2200 2230 2230 2230 Group 2300 2300 2300
Saturday 10 March morning programme AUDITORIUM TRAINING SESSION FRINGE SESSION MASTERCLASS Doors open 07:45 0800 0800 0800 Getting started with the membership database 0830 0830 0830 0900 F1 Opening F2 & F3 Conf. & Policy Committee 0900 0900 0930 0930 0930 F4 Policy motion: Local government & housing 1000 1000 1000 F5 Policy motion: Exit from Brexit 1030 1030 1030 110 0 F6 Speech: Ed Davey MP First Timers' Tour Meet at the info desk 113 0 Masterclass F7 Policy motion: Topic TBC Every child empowered education for a changing world Work & Welfare Stephen Lloyd, Ben Stoneham, Christine Jardine (TBC) Foreign Affairs Jo Swinson and Shas Sheehan Membership database drop in session Ask me for money: conversations with a real, live major donor Getting your message right How to write the best email and target letters Councillor training: building a councillor brand Using video to campaign (advanced level) Being an agent for local elections Pick a ward and win it: winning the postal vote/the last week Using Connect and data to win Candidate's briefing for approved parliamentary candidates (by invitation only) Liberty Network Campaign Roundtable (by invitation only) 110 0 110 0 Speaking in public at a selection or at public meetings Introduction to becoming an approved candidate 113 0 113 0 1200 1200 1200 1230 1230 1230 Interview skills for selection Effective community campaigning Young and winning: develop skills to become a successful young candidate Successful Parliamentary selection kickstarting your PPC selection in the local elections
Saturday 10 March afternoon programme AUDITORIUM TRAINING SESSION FRINGE SESSION MASTERCLASS 1300 1300 1300 1330 1330 1330 1400 Masterclass Topic TBC F8 Policy motion: A rural futuretime to act (Rural communities policy paper) David Howarth and Bernard Greaves Launch of the new book Towards a Liberal Future Your Life, Your Choice Who Should Have the Right to Die? Humanist & Secularist Lib Dems The Power of Green Campaigning From Air Pollution To Energy Green Liberal Democrats Universal Credit and Welfare Reform Voice What future for Adult Social Care? LGA & ALDC Alternative War: How Russian cyberattacks threaten Western Democracy Social Liberal Forum Why should anyone care about electoral reform? s for Electoral Reform & Your Liberal Britain LDEG Annual General Meeting European Group (LDEG) Pressing topics in International Development Lib Dems in International Development 1400 1400 1430 1430 1430 Could you be an MP? Growing your local party Winning in the final six weeks Be a councillor: approval and selection procedures Developing campaigning: advanced literature (advanced level) Raising the money to win Designing and Local elections: how producing winning to win over young selection literature voters Parents' experience of today's education system Education Association Media and public speaking skills for candidates 150 0 150 0 150 0 153 0 153 0 153 0 F9 Q&A session: Vince Cable MP 1600 1600 1600 F10 Federal Board 1630 F11 Campaign for Pick a ward and win Countdown to local 1630 Planning and 1630 Gender Balance Unconscious bias Being an agent for election fundraising: What a good digital winning a selection Business Rates F12 Consult. Amend.: PCA meeting what it is and why it local elections every day from now campaign looks like campaign Review Group GDPR implementation matters F13 Business motion: reforming disciplinary processes F14 Constitutional amendment: until May it: knocking on doors / installing and using MiniVan 170 0 170 0 170 0 173 0 173 0 173 0
Saturday 10 March evening programme TRAINING SESSION FRINGE SESSION SOCIAL PROGRAMME 1800 18 0 0 1800 Corporate Tax Policy informal consultation Corporate Tax Working Group Undoing the Good Friday Agreement Rights Liberties Justice 1830 18 3 0 1830 ONEPOST print and postal workshop ONEPOST Key Issues In Education for 2018 & LDEA Annual General Meeting Education Assoc. Radical Liberalism defining what we stand for! Social Liberal Forum w. Compass 1900 19 0 0 1900 Doors close 19:30 1930 19 3 0 1930 The UK's broken asylum system: filling the holes and Macdonald Review fixing the process Lib Dem Women s for Seekers of Sanctuary 2000 2000 2000 Whisky tasting Hosted by Alistair Carmichael MP. The battle for Bedford Borough LGA & ALDC Policy brainstorm: Ashdown Prize for radical thought 2030 2030 Tickets 30 email: 2030 Your Liberal Britain libdemfow@gmail.com 2100 2100 2100 2130 2130 2130 Science and Engineering reception Association of Lib Dem Engineers and 2200 2200 2200 2230 2230 2230 Scientists The Northern Powerhouse: liberalism enacted, statism writ large or a vacuous slogan? Liberal Reform 2300 2300 2300 Glee Club until 01:00 2330 2330 2330 2400 2400 2400
Sunday 11 March AUDITORIUM TRAINING SESSION FRINGE SESSION 0800 0800 0800 Doors open 08:30 0830 0830 0830 0900 0900 0900 F15 Party strategy 0930 0930 0930 F16 Reports Parliamentary Parties Running your local party Raising the money to win Be a councillor: making candidate pools more diverse Could you be an MP? 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 F17 Emergency motions or topical issues Brexit Tom Brake, 10 3 0 10 3 0 10 3 0 Catherine Bearder, Dr Julie Smith What a good digital campaign looks like New ways of fundraising in a digital landscape Left luggage 2 per bag Councillor training: using the council to campaign Intermediate level for elected councillors 110 0 110 0 110 0 F18 Policy motion: NHS at 70 113 0 113 0 113 0 12 0 0 12 0 0 12 0 0 F19 Speech: Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats 12 3 0 12 3 0 12 3 0 13 0 0 13 0 0 13 0 0 Close of conference 13:00