Alex Baker
My name is Alex Baker and I am passionate about all things co-operative and cake related. I have worked within the co-operative movement for the past five years and really believe that co-operative solutions provide answers to many of the problems that we have in society.
I’m a Dorset girl born and bred and Dorset will always be home. I have lived in Lambeth for the past couple of years and I now consider Stockwell to be my second home. I am really active within my local Labour Party in Vauxhall and most weekends I can be found out campaigning on the #labourdoorstep somewhere.
I am really close to all my family and especially my brother who lives in Stockwell as well and is an A&E nurse at Kings College Hospital.
I’m secretary of Lambeth Co-operative Party, which is getting really active focussing is on campaigning. We’ve been running a campaign against Lambeth loan sharks which has been going really well recently.
Listed among: NEC Members
- Event: 17 May, Co-operatives and Fairtrade in Plymouth (15 May 2012)Plymouth and South West Co-operative Party invite you to a special celebration of Co-operatives and Fair Trade Thursday 17th May, 7.30pm – Plymouth Council Chamber Civic Centre, Plymouth Chaired by Peter Chave with Councillor Tudor Evans the new Labour and Co-operative Leader of Plymouth City Council speaking on plans for Plymouth as a Co-operative Council Alex Baker of the [...]
- Alex Baker at Labour Conference: “embrace your inner co-operator” (4 Oct 2011)Co-operative Party NEC member Alex Baker spoke on co-operation and the Co-operative Councils initiative at last week’s Labour Conference in Liverpool. Watch her speech and read it in full below. Alex Baker representing Vauxhall CLP. The morning after the South London riots, I felt the need to head just down the road to Clapham Junction [...]
- The latest top co-ops from @artystar (23 Jun 2010)Alex Baker is playing catch-up with her favourite co-ops for Co-operatives Fortnight, but her selections for numbers 3 and 4 are now through. Both of Alex’s choices are good friends of the Party. Divine Chocolate is 45% owned by the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa growers’ co-op in Ghana. Together they make excellent Fairtrade chocolate and supply [...]
- New National Executive Committee elected (10 May 2011)Following recent elections amongst our members and our member organisations, we are able to announce the election of the following NEC members. Scotland: Jim O’Neill Wales: Alun Michael MP North East: Raymond Henderson North West: Dave Pownall Yorks & Humberside: Neil Rhodes East Midlands: Julian Evans South West: Linda Gilroy London: Gareth Thomas MP West [...]
- When are our leadership candidates going to start co-operating? (17 Jul 2010)When the Labour leadership hustings timetable was announced a few weeks ago, I was absolutely delighted to see that there was going to be a co-operative hustings jointly hosted by the Labour Party & the Co-operative Party in Manchester, the beating heart of the co-operative movement, on Saturday July 31st. Fantastic, I thought! In my [...]
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Ballot papers have arrived!! (13 Apr 2011)
I have come home today to find my ballot paper for the Co-op Party NEC elections in my postbox. It was so exciting to open the ERS envelope to see my name on the ballot paper. This is a bit of a historic moment for me – I have been involved in a lot of [...]
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Dad’s been armed by the NHS (1 Apr 2011)
I have to say I have a whole lot of love for the NHS right now. My Dad’s right shoulder joint has been worn out for a while and so it’s been on his health to do list to sort out. And that is exactly what the surgeons did yesterday when they operated at Yeovil [...]
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Eating for one and all (31 Mar 2011)
What a day! Voice 11 was AMAZING! So was the Votes at 16 Democracy Den that The Co-operative Membership held jointly this evening in Parliament. So much to blog about which I plan to do over next few days. For now there is only one thing on my mind….sleep…. However before I go, I will [...]
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Filling the Dome with social enterprise! (29 Mar 2011)
Tomorrow I’m off to Voice 11, The Social Enterprise Coalition’s Annual Conference which for the first time will be held at the O2 Dome. I’m always very excited to visit the Dome (I’ve only been once to a concert there – Strictly Come Dancing Live of course!) because it brings back fantastic memories of my [...]
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ABC for NEC! (18 Mar 2011)
I’m really proud to have secured the support of the following Co-operative Parties and Co-operative Societies in get me on the ballot paper for the Co-operative Party’s One Member One Vote Woman place: Midcounties Co-operative Society West Mercia Co-operative Party Surrey, Bucks & Berkshire Co-operative Party Sussex Co-operative Party Midcounties Oxford Co-operative Party Kent Co-operative [...]
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Just for Martin… (7 Mar 2011)
My good friend Martin has been publically whining tonight that I don’t have a recipe for banana bread on my blog. I have to admit it’s not something that I make very regularly. Not because I don’t like it but just because I just never think to make it. Actually it is a fantastic thing [...]
