| David Chaplin, Chair |
|
David is delighted to be re-elected to the Young Fabian Executive, and to be elected as Chair for 2009/2010. David has highlighted the Young Fabians 50th year in 2010 as a key moment for the organisation to renew itself and reach out to a broader and more diverse range or people. Having worked with Executive members on exciting projects over the past few years such as the Fast Forward pamphlet, our PPC Week and the Ed Miliband manifesto surgeries; David values the importance of team working on the Executive and providing exciting opportunities for our members and supporters to get involved in centre-left politics and activism. As Chair this year David will be bring together all the talents on our Executive, promoting the Young Fabians to new members and launching our 50th year celebrations, as well as representing us on the Fabian Society Executive Committee. David has held three previous posts on the Young Fabians Executive: Officer Without Portfolio, Policy & Communications Officer, and last year David served as Vice-Chair. In this time David has regularly contributed to the Young Fabians magazine Anticipations as well as regularly writing for the Young Fabian blog and you can read his contributions here: blog As part of his role when Policy & Communications Officer, David setup the first Young Fabian Policy Commissions, and managed them for two years as they developed and grew, later becoming the Policy Forums. These groups provided our members with the chance to engage with senior policy makers and to debate ideas in a small and more focussed way. As part of this project David also published a Young Fabian pamphlet to summarise the Policy Forum’s work – launched at the end of 2009, Fast Forward was the first Young Fabian pamphlet for three years. David has worked in Parliament for a number of Labour MPs, as well as in Canada for the New Democrat Party. He has previously worked as a consultant and now works as a parliamentary and policy adviser in the voluntary sector. David is a secondary school governor in Haringey and writes for the think-tank Progress in their School Governors Network. He is also an active member of Hornsey & Wood Green CLP. Contact David: 11 Dartmouth Street
Telephone: 020 7227 4900
|
