Annual Conference 2023

Annual Conference is the highlight of our year and after two years online, it returned as a face to face event from 29 to 31 January 2023 in Birmingham, at the Hilton Metropole Hotel.

It’s now all over, seeming to have passed by all too quickly. Hopefully, all of you who attended will have reaped the benefit of the expert advice you will have received via the excellent workshops and plenary sessions and your confidence boosted enough to overcome the challenges and obstacles new legislation has placed in your path, not to mention the added bonus of networking with colleagues around the country.

We thank all the exhibitors who, despite the shortened period of Conference, took the time and trouble to show members their products and how they might assist in their work.

Relevant information and photos from the event will continue to be posted here as it has been over the last two or three days. The next issue of Arena will contain more information and reports.

To enable you to get to each section of the page quickly, you can use the links below; otherwise, scroll down at your leisure!

Conference programme – Keynote speech – Annual General Meeting – Front Line Stories (photo) – Electoral Reform and Modernisation in Scotland and Wales (photo) – Polling Places and Polling District reviews – Saying goodbye to Sue Bedford – Examination successes (photo) – AEA Annual Awards – Slide Presentations – Miscellaneous photos

Conference Programme

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Keynote Speech

Here is our Chief Executive, Peter Stanyon, with Lee Rowley MP who was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on 7 September 2022 and who delivered the Keynote Speech on Monday afternoon.

Annual General Meeting

Left to right: Laura Lock, Deputy Chief Executive; Peter Stanyon, Chief Executive; Frances Cleland, Chair; Alex Mammous, Immediate Past Chair; Neil Middlehurst, Deputy Chair; Gina Armstrong, Executive Director (Resources)