Five people. A pub, a living room, a community centre, a video call. Read one section of the manifesto. Disagree with something. Say so. If 60% of Club members vote for a change, it goes in the manifesto. No other political party in Britain lets you do that.
A Forge Club is a local group of people who read the manifesto together and tell us what we have got wrong. That is the entire brief. No rallies. No canvassing quotas. No party political broadcasts.
The Forge Club model is borrowed from the 18th century coffee house: a place where people of different backgrounds read the same pamphlet and argued about it honestly. Most of the political ideas that shaped modern Britain came out of those rooms. We are trying to recreate that.
Download the manifesto or open any section page on ForgeBritain.org.uk. Choose one that matters most to people in the room.
30 minutes. Everyone reads it. Silently or out loud. Have someone read the key proposals aloud if the group prefers.
What is right? What is wrong? What did we miss entirely? What would actually happen in this constituency if this policy passed?
Post the group's summary to the discussion hub. Name the Club, name the section, state the agreement or disagreement. It goes on the public record.
One section per meeting. 19 sections in the manifesto. Forge a relationship with your community over 19 months.
Every other party is run from the top and consulted at the bottom. Forge is built from the bottom. The Clubs are the constitutional foundation of the party, not a membership perk. Here is what that actually means.
The founding manifesto is Dr Robert King's. Every version after that belongs to the Clubs. A proposal with 60% member support is not a suggestion. It enters the formal drafting process. No other party in Britain gives members this.
No candidate can stand for Forge without 50% support from their local Forge Club. Central office cannot overrule a Club selection or impose a candidate from outside the constituency. The Club decides.
Regional strategy comes partly from Club feedback on what lands locally. What resonates in Sunderland is different from what resonates in Guildford. Clubs tell us what works. The campaign reflects it.
The most effective political recruitment in history has been face to face. One person who believes something, talking to one person who is uncertain. That is what Clubs do. No algorithm replaces it.
Clubs vouch for local donors. The Electoral Commission requires verification. A Club that knows a person personally is a more reliable verification than a form submitted online. Local accountability.
A political party with no local presence is a website and a manifesto. The Clubs turn Forge into something that exists in communities, in pubs, in community centres, in the lives of real people with real problems.
Any Forge Club member can propose a manifesto change. That proposal is put to all verified Club members across the country. If it reaches 60% support, it goes to the policy committee for formal drafting, then to a Club-wide vote at the next quarterly meeting. This is not consultation. It is not a focus group. It is governance. The manifesto is a living document owned by its members, not locked in a filing cabinet.
These are the Clubs currently meeting. Enter your postcode or region to find one near you. If there is nothing nearby, start one. It takes five people and a venue.
Fortnightly Tuesdays · The Turk's Head pub, Chapel Street
Discussing: Section XI. Energy
Monthly Saturdays · Cafe Royal, West Register Street
Discussing: Section XVIII. Scotland and Wales
Weekly Wednesdays · The Bridge Hotel, Castle Garth
Discussing: Section V. Defence
Monthly Thursdays · Chapter Arts Centre, Canton
Discussing: Section XVI. Crown Estate
Fortnightly Mondays · Doncaster Library meeting room
Discussing: Section III. Welfare
Monthly Sundays · Zoom · Open to all UK citizens abroad
Discussing: Section XII. Constitutional Reform
Clubs marked Example show what a registered Club looks like. Register below and yours will appear here without the badge.
Tell us where you are and how many people you can bring together. We will connect you with anyone else in your area who has registered, and help you run your first meeting.
You receive an acknowledgement from robert@forgebritain.org.uk with a short welcome note and a link to the first-meeting guide.
If other people in your area have already registered, we introduce you by email so you can organise together rather than in parallel.
Once you have held your first meeting and confirmed it with us, your Club is added to the active list on this page.
Registered Club members receive voting access to the manifesto proposal system. When a proposal reaches the 60% threshold, you are part of the count.
If your Club is already meeting but not listed here, register it via this form selecting "Start a new Club". Once confirmed, we add it to the map and activate voting rights for your members.
No. The whole point is that you probably do not. You join to argue about what is wrong with it. That is the mechanism by which the manifesto improves. Agreement is not the entry requirement. Engagement is.
No. There is no fee to register as a Club member. Forge is funded by donations capped at £500 per person per year. The Club itself costs whatever you pay for a round at the pub, which is appropriate.
Yes, and this is exactly the right order. The Club comes first. The candidate comes from the Club, or is supported by the Club. You start with the community, not the individual.
Any registered Club member submits a proposal via the discussion hub. It is put to all members as an online vote with a defined closing date, typically 30 days. If 60% of participating registered members support it, it enters formal policy drafting. The founding leader retains a veto only on proposals that contradict the core founding principles of the party.
Yes. The Diaspora Club is entirely online and has the largest membership of any current Club. A Zoom call where people genuinely read and discuss a section of the manifesto counts. The physical meeting is encouraged but not required.
Submit the disagreement formally through the discussion hub. If the disagreement is widespread, the 60% mechanism exists precisely to resolve it. A Club that disagrees sharply with a section of the manifesto is more valuable than one that passively accepts it. Challenge is the mechanism.
Not yet. Registration is targeted for Q3 2026. Until then, Forge Clubs are operating as a political campaign group, which requires no registration. Clubs should not accept or handle money on behalf of Forge until formal registration is complete.
Yes. A Forge Club starter pack, including a first-meeting guide, discussion prompt cards for each manifesto section, and a quick guide to submitting feedback, will be sent to every registered Club within two weeks of launching.