Founded in 2010, Reading
Young Labour was set up to be the youth wing of the Reading Labour
party taking in all people under the age of 31 in the two CLPs. We aim
to promote young people and their interests in the party and council
while also representing Labour to young people in the wider electorate.
We also set clear aims, to be a strong voice of young people in the
labour movement, to be a campaigning machine that engages with the
public in new and effective ways and to promote young people to officer
roles and elected office. We do this alongside Reading Labour Students
but they include students in Reading who normally live outside the CLPs.
Ian Stevens is the current chair of RYL, Will Cross is Vice-Chair and
I’m the newly elected secretary.As young people in the party we use Young Labour to engage with people like us who have a passion for the labour movement and who look to the party to promote our views and interests. To a young person, agendas, AMMs, ECs and minutes can all sound a bit scary, Young Labour is there to ease young people into the party and support them. Rather than formal meetings we have informal socials and occasional discussions which have no minutes or agendas to provide a relaxed atmosphere where young people can talk about Labour and other issues.
