The calendar and the clock are marching ever on, and whilst it might feel like you’ve barely blinked since Christmas, important deadlines in the Conference office are fast approaching.

LDV have booked a big room for a conference fringe event on the Friday night and we have until the 15th to decide how much information to put in the conference pack about the Exciting Secret Project our boffins and wonks are collaborating on late into the night. We’re of course stuck between a pillar and post – will the event be so massively oversubscribed we might need to remove walls, like our Obama event a year ago – or will there be only a handful of people as the Rally massively overruns and takes all our punters, as at our “Campaigning after Rennard” last September.

But talking about the fringe venue booking deadline is a little self indulgent when the vast majority of conference-goers won’t be organising fringe events.  Two rather more important deadlines are also fast approaching.

Motion and registration deadlines

An email from Conference office gives all the information you need:

To submit a motion for spring conference, a motions submission form is available online, which explains who can submit motions – the main routes are by local parties and by any ten elected reps. Simply download and submit your motion for the Federal Conference Committee to consider by 12 noon on 13 January 2010.

For further details on how you can take part in conference, visit our new Democracy in Action web page for information on voting, speaking and submitting motions and questions at conference. The site also includes a useful guide on how to write a better motion.

Don’t forget: There are still great savings to be made before 17.30 on 20 January 2010 if you have not yet registered for spring conference 2010. Visit www.libdems.org.uk/spring_conference for more information and to register.

Information for journalists

If you’re on the party’s press release list you will have seen recently that the deadline for free press accreditation is also coming up soon. If you want to register for free as a journo, you need to get this form (PDF) completed before the 1st February. You don’t get too much for your free pass – you’ll have to pay extra if you want access to a desk, a chair and two power sockets.