Conservative Women's Organisation
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Conservative Women's Organisation
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| Full name | Conservative Women's Organisation |
| Short name | CWO |
| President | Niki Molnar MBE |
| Chairman | Julie Iles |
| Deputy | Sophie Stratton |
| Deputy | Alexia Roe |
| Deputy | Barbara Postles |
| Founded | 1919 |
| Headquarters |
Conservative Campaign HQ 4 Matthew Parker Street, London, SW1H 9HQ, England |
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CWO Forums CWO Development |
| Ideology | Conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| National affiliation | Conservative Party |
| European affiliation | European Union of Women |
| International affiliation | UN Women |
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Assumed office 8 March 2016 |
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| Incumbent | Julie Iles |
| Preceded by | Niki Molnar |
| Website | [1] |
Conservative Women's Organisation, abbreviated to CWO, represents the women members of the Conservative Party in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In the latter part of the 20th Century, the organisation was known as the Blue Rinse Brigade.
The Scottish Conservative Women's Council is the autonomous sister organisation of the CWO in Scotland. The Chairman of the British Section of the European Union of Women also sits on the CWO National Executive.
As with all political parties, membership has declined and the CWO had about 5,000 active members in 2012 (although all the women members of the party are actually members). Attendance at the CWO Annual Conference has been between 300-750 in the past five years.
It also sends delegates to the National Conservative Convention, the parliament of the party's voluntary wing (Voluntary Party).
The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations' Central Women's Advisory Committee (CWAC) was formed in 1908 and officially founded in 1919, although not affiliated to the Conservative Party until 1928. Its roots go back to the Grand Ladies Council of the Primrose League of 1885. It changed its name to the Women's National Advisory Committee (WNAC) in 1951 and again to the Conservative Women's National Committee (CWNC) in April 1982. It changed to its current title in April 2007.
In the latter half of the 20th century, the CWO had more than a quarter of a million members and became the largest women's political organisation in the Western world. For several decades, the women's organisation's annual conference was regularly held in the Royal Albert Hall in London.
According to its website, the CWO is
The CWO Executive Committee has responsibility for the overall management of the organisation and is composed of:
The National Officers for 2016/2017 are:
Each of the 12 regions are broken into Areas (roughly by county), with each having their own Area Chairman with responsibility to the Regional Chairmen. An affiliated (or recognised) Conservative Association women's group, known as Association CWOs or Conservative Women's Constituency Committees (CWCCs).
The organisation is officially affiliated to the Conservative Party. Its last constitution was ratified by the CWO AGM in March 2007 and ratified by the Party Board on April 7, 2007. A revised constitution was ratified by the CWO AGM on 29 March 2014 and ratified by the Party Board on 28 April 2014.
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