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David Coleman is the new Area Chairman for Surrey.

I have recently been elected as CF Area Chairman for Surrey and I am really enjoying it and look forward to the many months ahead. But before I start about my view of this role, I will quickly talk about my history with CF.

I first joined the branch in my local area of Spelthorne and the membership was pretty small and the first impression I got was that Conservative Future were minor groups that meet in pubs every so often. However this view changed when I started to campaign to help elect members of Conservative Future as County Councillors in Spelthorne who helped me learn more about what CF does nationally and it was not long before I was invited to a event at CCHQ were I meet Mark Clarke while he was standing for the national chairman and was introduced to the Surrey CF chairman and I started to help out by setting up a Facebook group and working on the website.

After a while doing this I believed that I had learnt enough and had gained enough confidence to move upwards in Conservative Future and decided to stand as Surrey chairman after Andy Mountney decided to step down. I was given a lot of support from Andy alongside others like Michael Rock, Richard Jackson and members from across the country which I had met from campaigns and socials. I found this support very helpful during my campaign and I believe that this kind of support and communication between members will do a lot of good to keep CF as a positive organization that will help to get David Cameron into Number 10.

Okay so that is basically a short history of how I got started with Conservative Future and now I would like to talk about my views of the role. I believe that my role as area chairman is essentially to win and keep parliament/council seats and to increase our membership, as I found it more difficult to get involved and learn about CF then it should be. I believe that local chairmen need to give talks in schools and colleges about the benefits of getting involved with a political young movement and to advertise CF on the street and at fairs etc, like Anastasia Beaumont-Bott recently did in Horsham with Francis Maude. So I really want to get out and find the young conservatives who want to get involved with CF but not sure how to go about it, because they are out there.

Finally I believe Conservative Future will continue to develop with more members and there will always be the active members who will give up their time to help campaign, and I believe that if their dedication is always recognised then they will keep campaigning.

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