Delegate Conference 2025

Delegate Conference 2025 Overview 

For members who are new to MU Delegate Conference, there will be a dedicated space to make sure you know how everything works and that you’re ready to go on the first day. There will also be dedicated spaces for our Disabled, Global Majority, LGBT+, Young and Women members to connect with their communities.

An informal drinks reception will also take place on the Monday evening, and this will be a chance for you to meet other members ahead of the first day of Conference. A dinner will then take place on the evening of Tuesday 22 July, followed by live music and a brilliant DJ. 

Travel and accommodation

The 2025 Conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel, City Centre Liverpool, on Tuesday 22 July and Wednesday 23 July 2025.

Hotel accommodation and catering will be provided on Monday and Tuesday evening for delegates and guests. Delegates and visitors’ accessibility requirements will receive our full attention and provision as required. Reasonable travel expenses will be covered for attendees in keeping with the Union’s expense policy.

Expenses

Full accommodation and catering will be provided throughout the event so there will be no additional subsistence expenses payable to attendees.

How to attend

The call for nominations for delegates to represent their region at MU Delegate Conference 2025 has now closed.

Conference report

Ahead of conference, the MU produces a concise digital report that details all our work over the past two years. As a delegate, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions on the report during the conference and explore our work in more detail. Questions from delegates on the various parts of the report will be taken on a section-by-section basis.

The report, along with all other conference documents, will be made available to attendees in digital format prior to the event.

Conference Motions 2025

A ‘motion’ is a trade union way of asking for something. At MU Delegate Conference, it’s how you ask the Executive Committee, the governing body of the MU, to do something on your behalf. A motion that reaches MU Delegate Conference will be debated and voted on. 

After members submitted motions that they wanted to be considered by the deadline of 28 March 2025, Regional Committees and the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Committee made decisions on which motions they wish to be put forward. There are 25 in total.

The following link lists the motions and the committee that has proposed them.

View 2025 Motions

At this stage the motions might still be changed in some way, and they only become something that the MU must act upon if they are debated and passed by a majority of delegates at MU Delegate Conference (22/23 July 2025).

What happens next?

The Standing Orders Committee may make recommendations on motions e.g. where they could be clearer or where they might not fit with MU rules.

Members can suggest amendments (changes) to motions or express views that they wish their Regional Delegations to consider. If you want to add a comment or suggested amendment you must contact the Regional Organiser of your region as below by Friday 20 June 2025.

Scotland and Northern Ireland Region

Post: Regional Organiser, Musicians’ Union, Rab Noakes Suite, 8 Landressy Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, G40 1BP
Email: sni@themu.org

North of England Region

Post: Regional Organiser, Musicians’ Union, 123-127, 1^st Floor, Ducie House, Ducie Street, Manchester, M1 2JW
Email: paul.reed@themu.org

Midlands Region

Post: Regional Organiser, Musicians’ Union, Office 2, The Mint, 95 Icknield Street, Birmingham, B18 6RU
Email: stephen.brown@themu.org

Wales and South West England Region

Post: Regional Organiser, Musicians’ Union, Transport House, 1 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9SD
Email: wswe@themu.org

East and South East England Region

Post: Regional Organiser, Musicians’ Union, 30 Snowsfields, London, SE1 3SU
Email: paul.burrows@themu.org

London Region

Post: Regional Organiser, Musicians’ Union, 30 Snowsfields, London, SE1 3SU
Email: london@themu.org

Proposals for Rule Changes

Proposals for rule changes will be contained in a separate section of the Conference report. Delegates will consider rule changes sequentially as a separate item in the Conference programme.

Standing Orders Committee

The activities of the Standing Orders Committee continue unchanged.