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Help guide Local People in your area
Join a Local Panel
Use your local knowledge and judgement to help find candidates, organise activity, develop priorities and protect proper standards.
Why join a Local Panel?
Help good local candidates succeed and stop poor choices early.
Panels give local people a structured role in finding, assessing and supporting candidates, identifying priorities and building the organisation in their area.
You do not need political experience. We need fair-minded people with local knowledge, good judgement and the confidence to ask sensible questions.
How you can create change
As a Panel member, you can help by...
Assessing candidates
Review applications, references, local connections and suitability against published standards.
Organising conversations
Help run interviews, public meetings, member events and local consultations.
Building local priorities
Collect evidence and resident concerns for the Local Manifesto.
Supporting approved candidates
Help candidates build a team, understand the area and remain accountable.
Protecting standards
Raise concerns, record conflicts and challenge behaviour that could damage public trust.
The role, defined simply
Guide the local organisation and support fair candidate selection.
A Panel is a small local group with defined roles and recorded decisions. It helps connect local members, volunteers, candidates and community priorities.
Keeps meetings, actions and communication organised without controlling every decision.
Coordinates fair review, interviews, scoring, references and conflict declarations.
Helps bring local people together and makes it easy to take part.
Turns evidence and resident input into practical local priorities.
Candidate selection responsibilities
Fair, recorded and accountable.
Panels recommend and support candidates within national standards and any required member vote. They do not own the candidate position.
More than one person reviews each candidateConflicts of interest are declared and recordedPublished criteria are used consistentlyInterview notes and decisions are retainedCandidates can provide corrections or request reviewMember voting is used where requiredNational compliance and safeguarding oversight remains availablePersonal information is kept confidential and accessed only when needed
Why work with Local People?
The systems should do the administration, not dominate the meeting.
Panel tools will make decisions, tasks, local issues, events, candidate progress and member communication easier to organise.
Panel dashboard
Members, roles, tasks, meetings, documents and actions in one secure place.
Candidate workflow
Applications, checks, references, interviews, scoring and decision records.
Conflict register
Clear declarations and prompts when a Panel member should step back from a decision.
Events and consultations
Create local meetings, collect attendance and gather structured resident input.
Local manifesto
Track issues, evidence, proposals and links to candidate priorities.
Member and team links
See where additional volunteers, skills or local members are needed without exposing private details.
Commitment and expenses
Regular involvement, but not a full-time role.
Panel membership is unpaid. Meetings may be online or in person and should be planned around reasonable availability.
Occasional meetings, increasing around candidate selection or electionsPreparation before interviews or decisionsConfidential handling of applications and referencesRespectful disagreement and collective decisionsNo requirement to campaign for every activityAccessibility and remote participation where practical
Expenses
Do not assume costs will be reimbursed. Any approved essential expense must follow a published Local People policy and be agreed before it is incurred.
Who we are looking for
Local knowledge, fairness and reliability.
Live in or have a strong genuine connection to the areaListen before decidingDeclare political, personal and business conflictsKeep confidential information privateTreat applicants and other Panel members fairlyPut community benefit before personal ambitionFollow the code of conduct and data rulesCommit only to work you can realistically complete
Help build Local People in your area.
Join an existing Panel or help start one.
Evidence and review
Sources and Last Updated
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Page last reviewed1 August 2026
- Electoral Commission: Your party's constitutionChecked 1 August 2026
- Information Commissioner’s Office: Electronic and telephone marketingChecked 1 August 2026
- GOV.UK: Volunteers' rightsChecked 1 August 2026