Dave Owen

For practical reasons alone (the AGM falls in the middle of an election campaign) I hope the branch will return me as Elections Agent for a succesive year. It's a role I've successfully fulfilled for over a decade in total.

I think the Sub-Branch and Member Support working group is just getting started on giving sub-branches and the members within them the toolkit and support to be engaged and effective, and with the lessons learned from 2022/23, would like to stay on as officer, which I now have more time to dedicate work to. If returned to post, I will focus first on finding and co-opting another officer so that we can hold each other accountable and make more regular progress than in the last year.

Having held the office of Elections Agent , formerly Election Liaison for nearly a decade, I returned to the post in 2023. I am in the process of nominating the seven UK general election candidates for the branch, who have all appointed me their election agent for them.

I served on the Sub-Branch and Member Support working group in 2022/23 and became sole officer in the group for 2023/24. I feel the group made significant progress in this year, formalising the role of sub-branches, performing health checks on our sub-branches, and organising a new members' event and sub-branches awayday during the year.

I have now retired from full-time employment and anticipate no conflict or overload from holding two posts for another year.