12
Jan/25
Training calendar
13
Jan/25
Making the Best Use of the Three Leaflet Deal – Webinar – 13 January 2025
30
Jan/25
Artworker – Webinar – 30 January 2025
10
Feb/25
Finding Candidates – Webinar – 10 February 2025
12
Feb/25
Agent Briefing – Webinar – 12 February 2025
17
Feb/25
Introduction to Affinity Publisher – Webinar – 17 February 2025
19
Feb/25
Advanced Affinity Publisher – Webinar – 19 February 2025
26
Feb/25
Agent Briefing – Webinar – 26 February 2025
27
Feb/25
Artworker – Webinar – 27 February 2025
03
Mar/25
Winning in the Counties – Webinar – 3 March 2025
05
Mar/25
Agent Briefing – Webinar – 5 March 2025
06
Mar/25
Making the Best Use of the Three Leaflet Deal – Webinar – 6 March 2025
08
Mar/25
Winning Against Labour Conference – 8 March 2025
10
Mar/25
Building Your Shuttleworth – Webinar – 10 March 2025
12
Mar/25
Getting Out the Vote – Webinar – 12 March 2025
27
Mar/25
Artworker – Webinar – 27 March 2025
24
Apr/25
Artworker – Webinar – 24 April 2025
07
May/25
Filling in Your Expenses – Webinar – 7 May 2025
19
May/25
New Councillors Webinar: Welcome to New Councillors – 19 May 2025
21
May/25
New Councillors Webinar: Keeping Your Council Seat – 21 May 2025
23
May/25
New Councillors Webinar: The People & Communities You Represent – 23 May 2025
27
May/25
New Councillors Webinar: Managing Casework – 27 May 2025
28
May/25
New Councillors Webinar: GDPR For Councillors – 28 May 2025
29
May/25
Artworker – Webinar – 29 May 2025
30
May/25
New Councillors Webinar: Navigating Your Council – 30 May 2025
02
Jun/25
New Councillors Webinar: Making an Impact With Your Public Speaking – 2 June 2025
06
Jun/25
Filling in Your Expenses – Webinar – 6 June 2025
20
Jun/25
Kickstart, Affinity & Councillor Weekend: 20-22 June 2025
26
Jun/25
Artworker – Webinar – 26 June 2025
09
Jul/25
Approval and Selection – Webinar – 9 July 2025
12
Jul/25
Building a Greener Future On Your Council: Online Conference – 12 July 2025
14
Jul/25
Winning Against Labour Webinars: Getting Your Message Right – 14 July 2025
16
Jul/25
Winning Against Labour Webinars – Building a Ground Campaign – 16 July 2025
18
Jul/25
Winning Against Labour Webinars: Taking the Fight to the Council – 18 July 2025
30
Jul/25
Introduction to Affinity Publisher – Webinar – 30 July 2025
31
Jul/25
Artworker – Webinar – 31 July 2025
01
Aug/25
Advanced Affinity Publisher – Webinar – 1 August 2025
04
Aug/25
Planning a Digital Campaign – Webinar – 4 August 2025
08
Aug/25
You Can Be a Councillor – Webinar – 8 August 2025
28
Aug/25
Artworker – Webinar – 28 August 2025
25
Sep/25
Artworker – Webinar – 25 September 2025
03
Oct/25
You Can Be a Councillor – Webinar – 3 October 2025
06
Oct/25
Connect Webinars: Introduction to Connect – 6 October 2025
08
Oct/25
Connect Webinars: Questions & Scripts – 8 October 2025
10
Oct/25
Connect Webinars: Creating and Using VPBs – 10 October 2025
13
Oct/25
Connect Webinars: Manager’s Tasks – 13 October 2025
15
Oct/25
Connect Webinars: Using My Campaign – 15 October 2025
18
Oct/25
Town, Parish and Community Councillors Conference – 18 October 2025
20
Oct/25
Approval and Selection – Webinar – 20 October 2025
22
Oct/25
Writing a Great FOCUS Leaflet – Webinar – 22 October 2025
24
Oct/25
Being an Ally: Representing in Council – Webinar – 24 October 2025
27
Oct/25
Building a Diverse Candidate Team – Webinar – 27 October 2025
29
Oct/25
Campaigning on Social Media – Webinar – 29 October 2025
30
Oct/25
Artworker – Webinar – 30 October 2025
27
Nov/25
Artworker – Webinar – 27 November 2025
28
Nov/25
Kickstart & Agents Weekend: 28-30 November 2025
18
Dec/25
Artworker – Webinar – 18 December 2025
Training types
Key Events
Kickstart Weekends
Kickstart is our highly regarded residential campaign training weekend. Come along to get professional advice, training and bespoke mentoring for your team from experienced Liberal Democrat campaigners and councillors. The weekend caters for everyone; whatever your role in a campaign, and regardless of your experience. Find out more.
Councillors Weekend
Come along to improve your skills in your important Liberal Democrat councillor/campaigner roles. Enjoy a packed programme of training sessions, speakers and discussions and meet with fellow councillors from across the country. Training includes how to be an effective ward councillor, organising your casework, political influencing and much more. Find out more.
Party Conferences
We provide training for campaigners, candidates and councillors at each of the party’s conferences – Federal (Spring and Autumn), Welsh and Scottish – alongside exhibiting and running fringe events. We publish details in advance of each conference via our website and weekly emails.
Motivate Training Days
We run free virtual Motivate Training Days on Saturdays, 9.30am – 2pm, featuring campaign training and bespoke support. All Lib Dem members are welcome; you don’t have to be an ALDC member. You need to register to attend. Once registered, we will email you a link to join the meeting which we host online via Zoom. In non-pandemic times, Motivates are physical events held across Britain.
Webinars
We run free webinars each week covering topics such as agents and local party officers, Affinity Publisher and Connect. We also run webinars specially designed for Lib Dems based in Scotland and Wales. Sessions last about 45 minutes and they start at 12.30pm or 6:30pm. All Lib Dem members are welcome; you don’t have to be an ALDC member. You need to register to attend. Once registered, we will email you a link to join the meeting which we host online via Zoom.
Specialist Training Days
In non-Covid times, we deliver day-long training events across the country focussing on a specialist topic such as Affinity Publisher, Agent Training, ALDC Artworker, or Connect. A lot of these topics are covered in our weekly bitesize webinars (we’re running three sets a week at present).
Council Group Development Days
ALDC’s team of Development Officers are here to work with our Council Groups to help ensure that we continue to grow and deliver on our local councils.
Council Groups that are in ALDC Group Membership can book a facilitated development day to help you develops you council group and build skills within your team.
To request a development day please fill in this form or email us on office@aldc.org
Please let us know at least 2 months in advance of the date you want your development day to be held, and please note that we do not run development days in the busy run up to local elections (February to May).