Welcome to High Peak Liberal Democrats!

The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity.

The Constituency Party of the High Peak Liberal Democrats is managed by an Executive Committee which is elected annually. It manages the affairs of the party within the High Peak. Members join one of the two branches in the constitiuency, High Peak North & South. The North branch includes Glossop, New Mills and Hayfield. The South branch includes Buxton, Chapel and Whaley Bridge.

The Executive consists of a Constituency President, Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Secretary and Data Officer and six ordinary members. Meetings are held regularly and move around the High Peak to make it easy for all members to come along.

We are one of the five counties which make up the East Midlands Region of the Liberal Democrats. It oversees matters like the selection of Prospective Parliamentary Candidates and is the base for our MEP, Bill Newton Dunn.

Like all constituencies of the Liberal Democrat Party we follow national policies which are voted on at conference, taking our lead from the party headquarters at Cowley Street in London.

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PPC for the Liberal Democrats in High Peak New! Sun 7th Feb 2010 Well-known local cricketer and New Mills Councillor Alistair Stevens has been selected as the new Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for High Peak.

Undignified pensions system traps many in poverty - Webb Thu 28th Jan 2010 Commenting on figures from the Office for National Statistics showing an estimated 2m pensioners in the UK are living in poverty with a further million in fuel poverty, Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Steve Webb said:

There's plenty of fuel, but it's going to cost us Written by Vince Cable and published in Mail Online on Tue 19th Jan 2010 When it is bitterly cold outside, a long hard winter is more bearable if it is reliably warm inside. During the recent Arctic conditions, we have been hearing scare stories about threats to energy supplies and people have understandably been worrying.

Farron Calls on Government to Repay Taxes to Mountain Rescue Heroes Tue 12th Jan 2010 Following a week in which Mountain Rescue Teams across the country have been providing vital emergency support to help deal with the adverse conditions caused by blizzard like weather, South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has called on the Government to show their appreciation by delivering some much needed financial support to the organisation.

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