How to be a Parliamentary Candidate - Online Training Application Form - 2021

Application Form

Please complete the application form below in full, including the declaration to validate your application.

The more information you provide in your application, the greater your chance of being successful.

We welcome applications from all women members of the Labour Party.

The cost of the training varies depending on your LWN membership;
LWN members - £7.50 for both courses,
(if you are not currently a member and wish to apply as an LWN member you must have joined us before submitting your application).
Non-member - £15 for both courses
Our Solidarity Rate - £30 for both (this adds an extra donation to help with our training and campaign work).

Fees are to be paid into our Unity Trust Account and must be paid no more than 5 days after receiving email confirmation that you have been successful. If you have an issue about paying in time, please email Jane on jane@lwn.org.uk who will discuss this with you.

We expect participants to have at least one year’s membership of the Labour Party before doing these courses; this is because a basic working knowledge of the Party is required to benefit from what we offer.

We expect these courses to be in high demand, and places are limited. Therefore, the application process will close as soon as course numbers are full.

At the end of the application form you will see a diversity monitoring survey. It would be extremely helpful if you could complete this, so that we can continue to collect and publish anonymised diversity data about our trainees as well as take appropriate steps to ensure that our training is open and accessible to all our members and, where relevant, all women members of the Labour Party.

At the end of the application form, please press submit to send your application to us. We will not contact you until the course is full.

Please bear with us as we need to read all the applications submitted to determine who has been successful. If you need to contact us urgently please email contact@lwn.org.uk

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* 1. Name

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* 2. Contact details:

First name: *

Surname: *

CLP: *

Region

Email Address: *

Phone Number: *

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* 3. We mainly contact you via the email you provided, however on occasions we may contact you via phone. For GDPR we need specific consent;

I confirm that LWN can email me.

I confirm that LWN can call me if required.

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* 4. Social Media Details:

Facebook:

Twitter handle:

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* 5. Are you a member of Labour Women's Network? Please select via the dropdown menu

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* 6. How long have you been a member of the Labour Party? (Please select from drop-down menu)

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* 7. Labour Party Membership Number

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* 8. Have you been, or are you now, any of the following?

Westminster Parliamentary candidate

European candidate

Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly candidate

MP/ MEP/ MSP/ AM

Council Leader/Deputy Leader

Elected Mayor/Mayoral Candidate/PCC/PCC Candidate

Councillor

Council Candidate

Magistrate

School governor

Other

Other public appointment (please specify)

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* 9. Have you attended any LWN training before (other than at Party Conference)? Please select via the dropdown menu.

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* 10. Please tick all course(s) (s) you wish to apply for. Please note that we cannot guarantee that you get the course(s) of your choice; if they are over-subscribed, however, we will be repeating them and will notify you of additional dates as soon as possible.

If you cannot make any of the available dates but wish to express your interest, please tick the box provided.

Thursday, 14th and Tuesday, 19th January 2021 (from 8pm till 10pm) via Zoom

Saturday, 13th and Saturday, 20th February 2021 (from 10am till noon) via Zoom

I am interested in attending this course, but cannot do these dates. Please add me to the waiting list and notify me when new dates become available.

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* 11. Do you have any access needs when using Zoom? Please give details.
We make every effort to ensure that the needs of each participant are met. We may contact you to discuss further

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* 12. Please write a short (250 words max) personal statement telling us why you think you are suitable for this training and why you think its right for you now.
Include anything about your activities, experience or interests - political or otherwise - that you think is relevant. Please note that this section is very important in helping us to decide whether or not to allocate you a place, so do not leave it blank.
Make sure that you keep a copy of your statement, as you will not be able to access it once you have submitted your application.

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* 13. Please provide one Labour Party referee and contact details:
(This should be a branch/CLP officer, Councillor, MP or other Labour Party officer)

Name:

Position in the Party:

Email Address:

Phone Number:

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* 14. Confidentiality, Discretion and Conduct
To validate your application, please read the statements below and tick the boxes to show that you have read and understood it. If you do not do this, your application is invalid.

I will commit to being kind, respectful and sisterly at LWN event and training. LWN want the training to be a positive experience for everyone - so we expect you to treat everyone with respect, acknowledge that everyone deserves to be heard, and that we all have the right to enjoy our experience without fear of harassment, discrimination, or condescension, whether overt or via micro-aggressions.

I commit to maintaining absolute discretion and confidentiality about what is said on the course – LWN will ALWAYS do the same. This is also true for the training itself – LWN do NOT record training sessions and I also commit to not recording the courses, and will not try replicate LWN training to any others/group.

I can confirm I am over 18 years old.

I confirm I understand there is a payment for this course and that payments will be made no more than 5 days after receiving email confirmation should you be successful. I also confirm I understand that if I except a place and pay for the course but fail to attend one or both sessions that I am not entitled to a refund, and may not be offered an alternative date to complete the course.

I confirm I understand that my application may be unsuccessful.

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* 15. Nationbuilder is the home of LWN membership and activity database. We would like to add the contact details you have provided above to this database so we can keep you up-to-date with all our work - training courses, campaigning and events. You can opt out at any time! For GDPR we need specific consent to do this. Please tick if you consent to be contacted via our database;

EMAIL - We’ll never bombard you with emails, but do want to share news on our campaigns, events and training courses. Would you like to receive our email updates?

PHONE - Rarely, we may need to contact you via phone or text if you have given us your number. Are you happy for us to contact you in this way?

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* 16. For information purposes only - if we were to consider offering online courses on a weekday lunch-time, would you be interested?

Yes

Not sure

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* 1. Name

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* 2. Contact details:

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* 3. We mainly contact you via the email you provided, however on occasions we may contact you via phone. For GDPR we need specific consent;

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* 4. Social Media Details:

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* 5. Are you a member of Labour Women's Network? Please select via the dropdown menu

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* 6. How long have you been a member of the Labour Party? (Please select from drop-down menu)

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* 7. Labour Party Membership Number

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* 8. Have you been, or are you now, any of the following?

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* 9. Have you attended any LWN training before (other than at Party Conference)? Please select via the dropdown menu.

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* 11. Do you have any access needs when using Zoom? Please give details.We make every effort to ensure that the needs of each participant are met. We may contact you to discuss further

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* 13. Please provide one Labour Party referee and contact details:(This should be a branch/CLP officer, Councillor, MP or other Labour Party officer)

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* 14. Confidentiality, Discretion and Conduct To validate your application, please read the statements below and tick the boxes to show that you have read and understood it. If you do not do this, your application is invalid.

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* 16. For information purposes only - if we were to consider offering online courses on a weekday lunch-time, would you be interested?

* 11. Do you have any access needs when using Zoom? Please give details.
We make every effort to ensure that the needs of each participant are met. We may contact you to discuss further

* 13. Please provide one Labour Party referee and contact details:
(This should be a branch/CLP officer, Councillor, MP or other Labour Party officer)

* 14. Confidentiality, Discretion and Conduct
To validate your application, please read the statements below and tick the boxes to show that you have read and understood it. If you do not do this, your application is invalid.