The main party conferences are about to begin. Just like the Edinburgh Festival there is a fringe too. At the Edinburgh Festival the main event is the Military, the fringe is all the theatre and shows throughout the city.

At party conferences, the main event is the conference hall itself, with the delegates representing every constituency and affiliated organisations. Outside the hall are the fringe meetings. MP's and Ministers attend and speak at such meetings. It represents a good opportunity for organisations and companies to put forward there case and their issues to the party as a whole and influence thinking and policy making.

The PCG have organised a 'fringe meeting' entitled 'The Case for Freelancers, small business and the self-employed'. Our aim is to try and get our message across to the Labour movement as a whole. We are on a mission to educate clients, government and political parties about the importance of freelance workers and small service businesses. This is the start of that process.

For the meeting to be success we want to get as many people as possible to the meeting, so please write or email your MP (if you need their address contact us) and urge them to attend our meeting. If you live in the Brighton area, please come along, we want to show off the strength of feeling that there is and the support that the PCG has.