I am forever inspired by the phenomenal women co-operators who live and breathe and celebrate co-operative values. I put myself forward for the Co-op Women’s Network Steering Commitee to help encourage other women to get involved in our party, at all levels. As a Secondary School teacher serving a disadvantaged community, I see daily the need for change, the need for a society where wealth and power are shared, and where women not only have their voices heard, but actively shape the next chapter.

The Co-op Party Women’s Network has shown itself to be a great platform for women co-operators to share and support each other and we need your help to make sure e continue this great work as we prepare for crucial elections in 2021.

As the Co-operative movement grows and adapts to the challenges we face, we need to ensure that those most affected by the current Tory government are not only ‘represented’ but are given the opportunities, the motivation, the skills, the support to represent themselves and their communities. The Co-op Women’s Network is ideally placed to put our shared co-operative values and principles into practice and ensure women are central to developing our policies and practices so that women co-operators are selected and elected at all levels. If you’d like to join the network, please fill in the Party’s equalities questionnaire.

Also, as a proud ‘Janner’, it would be great to make sure that women co-operators from across the whole country contribute to this exciting time in the co-operative movement.

I’m sure the whole Steering Committee looks forward to welcoming some more phenomenal women co-operators to contribute to building back more co-operatively in 2021 and beyond. If you’d like to get in touch, email the committee on women@members.party.coop.

The Co-operative Party Women’s Network Steering Committee