A Constituency Labour Party is run by elected volunteers who take on specific responsibilities to keep everything organised and transparent. These roles are chosen annually by local members.
Here are the key positions and a brief description of what they do:
Chair
- Facilitates meetings
- Ensures discussions are fair and inclusive
- Assisting with coordination across officers and branches to keep CLP activity running smoothly
- Represents the CLP in formal settings
Secretary
- Manages administration and correspondence
- Prepares agendas and minutes
- Keeps the CLP running smoothly day‑to‑day
Treasurer
- Oversees finances
- Produces financial reports
- Ensures compliance with legal and party requirements
Vice Chair
- Supporting the Chair in managing meetings, discussions, and decision‑making
- Helping maintain an inclusive, respectful environment where all members can participate
- Stepping in to perform the Chair’s duties when they are unavailable
Women’s Officer
- Supports women members
- Ensures women’s voices are represented in CLP decisions
Youth Officer
- Encourages involvement from younger members
- Helps create accessible spaces for youth participation
BAME Officer / Equalities Officer
- Ensures equality, diversity, and inclusion are embedded in CLP activity
- Supports under‑represented members
Trade Union Liaison Officer (TULO)
- Building and maintaining links with local trade union branches and members
- Helping union members within the CLP engage confidently and effectively
- Promoting understanding of trade union values, rights, and structures among members
Environmental Officer
- Supporting members to engage with environmental issues in an accessible, factual way
- Ensuring the CLP considers environmental impacts in its events, operations, and decision‑making
- Helping ensure that environmental concerns—especially those affecting disadvantaged communities—are represented in CLP discussions
LGBT+ Officer
- Supporting LGBT+ members to participate fully and confidently in CLP activity
- Ensuring LGBT+ voices and perspectives are represented in CLP discussions and decisions
- Promoting awareness of LGBT+ inclusion, equality, and accessibility within the CLP
- Helping the CLP identify and address barriers faced by LGBT+ members
These roles exist to keep the CLP fair, organised, and welcoming, so every member can take part with confidence.
Volunteers keep things running day to day, but every member plays a part in shaping our local party.
A full list of Branch and CLP roles, with detailed descriptions, is available on the official Labour Party website:
https://labour.org.uk/resources/clp-and-branch-role-descriptions/