Women's Local Government Society
Raising the profile of past, present and future locally elected women
Women's Local Government Society
Our aims are to
- To raise the profile of past, present and future achievements of elected women in Local Government.
- To secure a greater representation of elected women in Local Government in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland through positive action, promotion, support, mentoring and lobbying.
- To facilitate networking opportunities for women elected to serve local communities.
- To ensure elected women of all political persuasions and of all communities and backgrounds are able to influence the work of the organisation and are encouraged to participate in it.
- To emulate the spirit of its Edwardian predecessor in promoting the cause of women as local elected community representatives.
- To encourage the return of real power to women in their local communities through elected local government and to support the development of meaningful local democracy
- To celebrate the 1907 success of the WLGS in lobbying for legislation enabling women to be elected as councillors
What's new on the site
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2010 membership forms and details of the AGM planned for March 2010 can be found on the 'join us' page
- better balance on the board. We ask questions about the representation of women on the managment boards of our local government bodies.
- So many ways to talk. Our chairman leads one of many on line debates
- A welcome debate at LGA conference. Details on our news page
- Successful Manchester conference launches 'find a friend' initiative - read conference presentations
The keynote address given by Baroness Hollis, one of our 3 Presidents, at the first WLGS AGM on 10 March 2007 is available to download