A Specified Associated Organisation is an organization of members of the British
Liberal Democrats formed around a specific trait and designated by the Federal Executive as affiliates of the party. SAOs are distinguished from other Liberal Democrat pressure groups (also known as ''Associated Organizations'') in that SAOs can review and input policies.
SAOs include the following:
*
ethnic minorities (LDCRE),
* women (WLD),
* the LGBT community (
LGBT+ Liberal Democrats),
* youth and students (
Young Liberals),
* engineers and scientists (ALDES),
* parliamentary candidates (PCA)
* and local
councillors (ALDC).
See also
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Socialist society
The Socialist Society was founded in 1981 by a group of British socialists, including Raymond Williams and Ralph Miliband, who founded it as an organisation devoted to socialist education and research, linking the left of the British Labour Party ...
References
{{UK Liberal Democrats
Organisation of the Liberal Democrats (UK)