Announcing the annual CUCA Garden Party, Sunday 15th June 2008.

The CUCA Garden Party will take place on Suicide Sunday, 15th June, from 3-6pm in the gardens of Newnham College.

Tickets will cost £12 for members and £15 for non-members. It is strongly advised to buy these as soon as possible, as the Garden Party is always popular.

We will be serving Hiedseck Monopole Gold Top Vintage 2002 champagne, along with Pimm’s, strawberries, and cucumber sandwiches!

The more sporting amongst you can take part in a quick game of croquet, whilst the more laid-back can sit, enjoy the champagne, and relax.

Help us celebrate the term and the year, and start your May Week off in style!

To purchase tickets, email me with your name, College, and the number of member/non-member tickets you require on , and send a cheque payable to Cambridge University Conservative Association to me at Trinity College.

The Chairman’s Dinner is now sold out.

It is my great pleasure to announce that tickets are now available for the Chairman’s Dinner.

The four-course dinner will be held in St John’s College on Friday, 13th June, with a drinks reception on the Backs at 7pm, and dinner in the Wordsworth Room at 7.30pm.

Tickets: Members - £40, Non-members - £45 (menu below)

Tickets are strictly limited, and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. To reserve a ticket, please email me on , AND send a cheque (payable to Cambridge University Conservative Association) to me (Mike Morley, at Trinity) by Saturday 31st May.

Your email should contain your name, and the name of any guests, along with any dietary requirements.

Your ticket will not be guaranteed until I have received your cheque: you may lose out if you do not get your cheque to me promptly.

Dress: White Tie preferred*

Salad of Roast Gressingham Duck with hand-dived sea scallops
(Vegetarian: Tian of Avocado and Celeriac)
Pleno Blanco 2006
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Grilled Quail
(Vegetarian: Cabbage Timbale)
Sterling Hills 2006
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Warm Apple & Membrillo Tart
Madeira
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Artisan British and Irish Cheeses
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Coffee and Mints

Greg Hands, MP for Hammersmith and Fulham and CUCA Chairman in Lent 1988, will speak on the topic “My CUCA days with Nick Clegg”

Friday 16th May, 6pm

Dining Room, The Cambridge Union

We are joined by Norman Blackwell, a former Downing Street policy unit director who worked for both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Lord Blackwell is currently Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies. He was a Special Adviser in 1986 and 1987, and was Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street from 1995 to 1997.

Lord Blackwell was formerly a Partner at McKinsey & Company, and a director of Dixons Group. He currently has a range of business interests including non-executive director of Standard Life, Slough Estates plc, Interserve plc and Corporate Services Group plc. He is also a senior adviser to KPMG and a Board Member of the OFT. He was created a Life Peer in 1997.

This is our last meeting before we take a break for revision and exams. Come along to what promises to be a fascinating talk. We next meet at the Chairman’s Dinner!

Monday 5th May, 6pm

The Junior Parlour, Trinity College
Opposite Great Gate above the Post Office: enter Whewell’s Court and it’s at the top of the staircase on the right.

Stanley Johnson is former Conservative MEP an environmentalist and author of books on the environment. He has worked at the World Bank and was the Head of Prevention of Pollution Division at the European Commission from 1973 - 1979. He is a trustee of the Gorilla Organisation and a board member of Plantlife International.

He is also father of Boris Johnson, the new Conservative Mayor of London. Stanley Johnson was Conservative candidate for Teignbridge in the 2005 general election.

If rumour is to be believed he may well be the next candidate for Henley…

8pm, Sunday 11th May 2008

Our legendary Port and Cheese evening. A selection of fine cheeses and free-flowing port, accompanied by stimulating conversation, will help you unwind.

Dress code: Black Tie

Tickets will cost £6 for members and £8 for non-members and are NOT available on the door. Places are strictly limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. After the event is full, I will add names to a waiting list in the event of non-payment or cancellation.

In order to reserve tickets, please email me on and give a cheque payable to “Cambridge University Conservative Association” to me in person or by UMS to Mike Morley at Trinity College.

The deadline for receipt of applications and cheques is MONDAY 5th May at 6pm. Your ticket is not guaranteed until I have received your cheque.

Late payments will not be accepted and your ticket will be offered to someone on the waiting list; cancellation with less than 72 hours will still result in your cheque being cashed.

Signing up to the facebook event will not guarantee you a ticket until I have your cheque.

6pm, Tuesday 29th April

The Dining Room, The Cambridge Union Society

“The road to victory under Cameron”

George Freeman is the Conservative candidate for the new constituency of Mid Norfolk. He ran his own business in Cambridge, where he was a trustee of the Cambridge Union Society. He will be talking to us about renewing the Conservative Party and present a short film.

Speakers usually stay for dinner with the Committee. If you would like to attend, please ask the Chairman ().

The Chairman’s Welcome Drinks Reception

Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College

Sunday 20th April, 8:00pm

Join us for a free gin and tonic extravanganza to kick Easter Term off in style. We shall be joined by Alex Singleton, a political commentator who has been published in the Telegraph, the Guardian and The Express, who will talk on Cameron and Globalisation. £2 for non-members.

George Freeman

Dining Room, The Cambridge Union

Tuesday 29th January, 6pm

George Freeman is the Conservative candidate for the new constituency of Mid Norfolk. He ran his own business in Cambridge, where he was a trustee of the Cambridge Union Society. He will be talking to us about renewing the Conservative Party.

Stanley Johnson

“Britain, Europe, and the environment under Cameron’s Conservatives”

The Junior Parlour, Trinity College

Monday 5th May, 6pm

Stanley Johnson is former Conservative MEP an environmentalist and author of books on the environment. He has worked at the World Bank and was the Head of Prevention of Pollution Division at the European Commission from 1973 - 1979. He is a trustee of the Gorilla Organisation and a board member of Plantlife International.

He is also father of Boris Johnson, who is currently Conservative candidate for London Mayor. Stanley Johnson was Conservative candidate for Teignbridge in the 2005 general election.

Port and Cheese Evening

Sunday 11th May, 8pm

Our legendary Port and Cheese evening returns, providing a welcome break from revision! A selection of fine cheeses and free-flowing port, accompanied by stimulating conversation, will help you unwind.

Dress code: black tie

(Cost: £6 for members; £8 for non-members.)

The Lord Blackwell

Dining Room, The Cambridge Union

Friday 16th May, 6pm

We are joined by Norman Blackwell, a former Downing Street policy unit director who worked for both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Lord Blackwell is currently Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies. Lord Blackwell was formerly a Partner at McKinsey & Company, and a director of Dixons Group. He currently has a range of business interests including non-executive director of Standard Life, Slough Estates plc, Interserve plc and Corporate Services Group plc. He is also a senior adviser to KPMG and a Board Member of the OFT. He was created a Life Peer in 1997.

The Chairman’s Dinner

Wordsworth Room, St John’s College

Friday 13th June, 7pm for 7:30pm

Our gala white tie-preferred dinner is the highlight of the term’s social calendar. This term, our hosts will be St John’s College, and the oak-panelled Wordsworth Room our venue.

Our guest speaker, is the MP for Hammersmith and Fulham, Greg Hands who will talk on “My memories of CUCA’s Nick Clegg.”

Places will be strictly limited, so look out for the announcement later in term.

May Week Garden Party

Sunday 15th June, 3pm-6pm

The gardens of Newnham College provide a fitting venue to close a fantastic year for CUCA. We will be serving Hiedseick Monopole Gold Top Vintage 2002 Champagne, Pimms’, strawberries, and cucumber sandwiches. Places will be strictly limited, so look out for the announcement later in term.

Dress code: blazers, no jeans.

CUCA Policy Pub Meets

We hold policy discussion meetings over a few drinks in the pub several times a term. If you would like to suggest a topic to discuss, please email the Vice-Chairman (). Information about these events will be published on the website in due course.

Under Val’s guidance, CUCA continued to go from strength to strength in Lent term, and we intend to continue this growth over the coming term.

My Executive, Committee and I are currently preparing an Easter term that will provide a range of exciting speaker and social events.

If you have any suggestions for speakers, or other thoughts and comments, do not hesitate to contact me on .

With best wishes for the Easter Vacation,

Mike Morley B.A. (Hons) MSci Cantab.

Chairman, Easter Term 2008

Sunday 24th February, 8.15pm

Green Room, Gonville and Caius College

£5 for members, £7 for non members.

If you want to come to our first port and cheese extravaganza, please email rvs24 and deliver cheques to me ASAP by UMS or to my pigeon hole in Caius (R.V. Stewart)

Please make cheques payable to Cambridge University Conservative Association.

Tickets will be given on a first come first serve basis. The Port parties are very popular but numbers are limited by the room size and college rules.

Many of you will have replied to the Facebook event. Please note that you will not be given a space until we have received a cheque or cash for your ticket.

From 8pm, tonight in the Castle Inn (up the Hill, past Magdalene), CUCA will be holding its first policy pubmeet of the term.

Over a few drinks, we discuss a topical event and its effect - if any - on policy. Tonight, in light of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent remarks about incorporating aspects of Sharia law into British law, we shall start by discussing the implications of these comments, what we think of them, and what
we think of relevant broader issues such as what role the Church or even the Royal Family should play in politics and influencing policy.