Our conferences give members the chance to speak and put questions to senior Party figures, and our training equips activists to take on the Left.
They range from Midlothian to South East Cornwall, from Rochester to Clwyd South.
Capitulation to Brussels by the Government is causing huge damage to our grassroots and damaging our local election prospects.
Will many candidates want to stand, given the popular anger about such an election even happening?
Our Executive Editor discusses disillusioned members, internal democracy, and allegations of UKIP infiltration on BBC Radio Four.
The Chairman of Clwyd South has announced an Emergency General Meeting – at which he will vote for the motion of no confidence.
Grassroots Conservative members passed their verdict in Beaconsfield and in East Staffordshire, though for very different reasons.
The former MP for the city will now seek to unseat the Labour incumbent.
Despite obvious points of disagreement, the AGM remained a “civilised and constructive” affair in which the Business Secretary sought to reassure his activists.
They are much less divided over whether to do the same to the Brexiteer rebels against the Withdrawal Agreement: definitely not.
The Attorney General did not vote on the proposal, but also told assembled members he was “happy to commend it to his colleagues”.
The Party has sent out restrictive advice on the rules to all local officers – “strange” advice which some Associations, at least, are ignoring.
As Number Ten mulls extending Article 50, local activists should follow the lead of the National Convention.
It would be easy to complain about unrealistic Labour promises, or hope people will naturally switch allegiance as they age, but neither approach is good enough.