A Specified Associated Organisation is an organization of members of the British Liberal Democrats formed around a specific trait and designated by the Federal Executive as affiliates of the party. SAOs are distinguished from other Liberal Democrat pressure groups (also known as ''Associated Organizations'') in that SAOs can review and input policies. SAOs include the following: *

ethnic minorities The term 'minority group' has different usages depending on the context. According to its common usage, a minority group can simply be understood in terms of demographic sizes within a population: i.e. a group in society with the least number o ...

(LDCRE), * women (WLD), * the LGBT community ( LGBT+ Liberal Democrats), * youth and students ( Young Liberals), * engineers and scientists (ALDES), * parliamentary candidates (PCA) * and local

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s (ALDC).

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{{UK Liberal Democrats Organisation of the Liberal Democrats (UK)

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