Women’s Conference
Please note that this conference is not open to members of the general public. All delegates to this conference must be nominated members of one of the TUC’s affiliated unions.
If you are interested in attending this event, please contact your union to request more information.
- Information for your union's delegates, visitors and conference observers
Delegation leads
If you are the delegation lead then please make sure we have your mobile phone number, we will use this to contact you if needed.
Key dates for delegates
If your union has nominated you to be a delegate at the 2025 TUC Women’s Conference, here is what you can expect from the TUC:
- 28 November 2024: Your union should have submitted your name to the TUC by this date.
- w/c 16 December 2024: The TUC will email you a link to register. If you do not receive this, please email your union contact to ensure that you have been nominated to be a delegate
- 24 January 2025: This is the deadline for you to complete your individual registration. Please note that this is a two-stage process. You will be sent a monitoring form first, at the end of which is a link to the final registration form.
- w/c 17 February 2025: The TUC will email all attendees with a link to the final conference documents, including the agenda, nominees to the Women’s Committee and the conference guide
Visitors
Visitors tickets (maximum 10 per union) will be issued via affiliated unions before conference. Because of the need for extra security at all TUC conferences, names and address of those wanting visitor tickets must be supplied and those tickets are not transferable.
Visitors will be asked to submit their individual registration by Friday 24 January no later than 4pm.
Equal access
The TUC is keen to ensure that we provide equal access for all delegates, especially disabled delegates. Please tell the TUC of any access requirements by Friday 24 January 2025 no later than 4pm. We need early notice of any delegates or visitors requiring documents in accessible formats, such as large print or Braille.
The TUC will meet all access needs where reasonably practicable and if notified in time.
British Sign Language interpretation will only be provided at conference when a union has indicated by the deadline that one of its delegates and/or visitors requires it.
Childcare facilities
The TUC is committed to ensuring that no delegate is prevented from playing a full part in our conferences because of childcare responsibilities. Your unions should notify delegates with children below school age that crèche facilities will be provided for these children during conference hours, free of charge, provided notice is given of this by the closing date for delegate registration by Friday 24 January 2024.
The TUC provides a creche if we have over 5 children requiring this service; we make other arrangements with the parent if there are fewer than 5 children requiring the service. Please note that unions may be liable for the cost of any ‘no-shows’ or late cancellations.
Out of hours childcare arrangements, to allow delegates with childcare responsibilities to attend fringe events can also be arranged up to 8pm,
Delegates that are breast feeding are welcome to bring their children with them.
Monitoring
In line with the TUC commitment to equality, delegations will be asked to complete an online equality monitoring form as part of their individual registrations.
Scrutineers and tellers
We need a small number of scrutineers to count the ballots for the Women’s Committee and the motion to Congress. The TUC will approach the delegation leaders for volunteers from amongst their delegates.
- 28 November 2024: Your union should have submitted your name to the TUC by this date.
- Information for union officers and staff
TUC Contacts
If you have any questions or queries in relation to any aspect of the 2025 TUC Women’s Conference, please email: equalities@tuc.org.uk.
Key dates
The TUC Women’s Conference will be held at Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3LS, from Wednesday 5 March to Friday 7 March 2025.
- Amendments to motions must be received by 16 January 2025 no later than 4pm
- Delegates must complete their individual registrations by 24 January 2025
- Fringe and delegation meeting requests must be received by 7 February 2025
- Emergency Motions must be received by 27 February 2025 no later than 4pm
Conference forms
- Motions: https://forms.office.com/e/MvrHFqMKkj
- Nominations: https://forms.office.com/e/YWYspXmkzv
- Delegate registration: https://forms.office.com/e/Cuueed5Fv0
- Visitor registration: https://forms.office.com/e/Dx3VAvE3Gw
- Fringe and Delegation meeting requests: https://forms.office.com/e/sSgQca0X8X
- Amendments: https://forms.office.com/e/mGiMyRHWnx
Conference sessions times
Conference sessions will be as follows:
- Wednesday 5 March from 2pm to 5.30pm
- Thursday 6 March from 9.30am to 5.30pm
- Friday 7 March from 9.30am to 3pm
Motions, amendments and emergency motions
Download the guide to writing motions
Motions
Please use this form to submit motions by 28 November 2024 no later than 4pm.
Each union may submit two motions of not more than 200 words each. Any longer motion will be ruled out of order. Please note that each motion should cover one subject only. Any motion covering more than one subject may be ruled out of order. Unions should also make sure the content of motions directly relates to women and the issues they face and make the relevance to women explicit in the wording.
Motions must be approved by the General Secretary.
Composite motions
The Women’s Committee will consult unions about compositing motions where relevant.
Amendments
Please use this form for submitting your union’s amendments.
Unions may submit one amendment of not more than 60 words.
Amendments must be submitted by 16 January 2025 no later than 4pm.
Speaking times
The time limit for moving and speaking to motions is five minutes for the mover of the motion, and three minutes for any subsequent speaker. Unions are not permitted to speak on each motion more than once.
Emergency motions
Emergency motions, of a maximum of 200 words, must deal with issues that have arisen since the closing date for ordinary motions. In other words, they must be a genuine emergency. They must be received by the TUC office at equalities@tuc.org.uk and titled EMERGENCY MOTION, by 27 February 2025 no later than 4pm via email as a signed PDF and a Word version.
Emergency motions must be approved by the General Secretary.
Delegations and registration arrangements
Delegate registration
Unions must submit the names of conference delegates by 28 November 2024 no later than 4pm using this form and must include any access and/or childcare requests.
Conference delegates are women (men are only permitted to to attend as observers and visitors).
All affiliated unions are entitled to be represented by a minimum of two delegates, providing that the organisation has paid the fee prescribed in Rule 3 of the Rules and Standing Orders. For affiliates with 10,000 or more members, the following entitlements also apply:
a) Organisations with between 10,000 and 20,000 members: up to 5 delegates.
b) Organisations with between 20,001 and 50,000 members: up to10 delegates.
c) Organisations with between 50,001 and 100,000 members: up to 15 delegates.
d) Organisations with between 100,001 and 500,000 members: up to 20 delegates.
e) Organisations with between 500,001 and 1,000,000 members: up to 25 delegates.
f) Organisations with over 1,000,001 members: up to 30 delegates.
Affiliated organisations are entitled to send additional delegates based on the number of their women members, according to the following banding arrangements:
a) Organisations with between 5,000 and 10,000 women members: one additional delegate.
b) Organisations with between 10,001 and 15,000 women members: two additional delegates.
c) Organisations with between 15,001 and 20,000 women members: three additional delegates.
d) Organisations with between 20,001 and 100,000: four additional delegates.
e) Organisations with between 100,001 and 250,000 women members: six additional delegates.
f) Organisations with between 250,001 and 500,000 women members: eight additional delegates.
g) Organisations with over 500,001 women members: ten additional delegates.
The General Council are especially keen to encourage delegations from those unions who do not usually go to conference. Please note: Delegates will be asked to submit their individual registrations by Thursday 8 February 2024.
Visitors’ tickets and documentation
Please use this form to submit your visitor names including any access and/or childcare requests. Unions must submit visitor names by 28 November 2024 no later then 4pm. The cost per visitor is £15 inclusive of VAT.
Visitors will be asked to submit their individual registrations by 24 January 2025.
Visitors’ tickets (maximum 10 per union) will be issued via affiliated unions before conference. Because of the need for extra security at all TUC conferences, names and addresses of those wanting visitor tickets must be supplied and tickets are not transferable.
Nominations
Please use this form to submit your union’s nominations to the TUC Women’s Committee no later than 4pm on 28 November 2024. Nominees must be registered as delegates by this date.
The Women’s Committee consists of members of the General Council together with 21 women representatives nominated by affiliated unions: fourteen who are elected onto Section A of the Committee, four who are elected onto Section B set aside for black women, one who is elected onto Section C for a disabled woman, one who is elected onto Section D for a lesbian, bisexual or trans woman and one who is elected onto Section E for a young member. A ballot will be organised if the number of nominations received in Section A – Section E exceed the number of seats. Unions with over 1.5 million members are allowed to make two nominations for election to Section A.
You are therefore invited to nominate a total of five women members from your union (one for each Section A – Section E), who must be delegates to the 2025 Women’s Conference, to serve on the Women’s Committee for the year 2025/2026.
Nominees (not the nominating union) should provide a supporting statement on the nominating form for circulation to delegates before conference. The statement should contain biographical information and relevant details of work carried out in the trade union movement but should not be in any way an election address. The General Secretary of the relevant union should endorse the statement, which must be no more than 150 words.
Please see the guide to writing nomination statements. Please note that statements that do not follow these criteria may be ruled out of order and not published in the list of nominations.
Fringes and delegation meetings
If you would like to book a fringe or a delegation meeting room, please use this form. The form must be received by 4pm on 7 February. The room will be provided at no cost to unions, but the cost of refreshments will not be covered by the TUC. Unions will need to liaise directly with the conference venue to arrange refreshments.
If your union is running a fringe event, it is your responsibility to provide reasonable adjustments to attendees.
Monitoring
In line with the TUC commitment to equality, delegations will be asked to complete an online equality monitoring form as part of their individual registrations.
Scrutineers and tellers
We need a small number of scrutineers to count the ballots for the Women’s Committee and the motion to Congress.
The TUC will approach delegation leaders for nominations from amongst their delegates.
TUC Contacts
If you have questions or queries in relation to any aspect of the 2025 TUC Women’s Conference, please email: equalities@tuc.org.uk.