Structure
The chairman of the BNP has final say in all policy matters. 15 further members of the party leadership have responsibility for various areas of its operations. These executive positions work alongside an Advisory Council, the party's senior policy body, which meets at least three times a year. Its role is to "inspect the party's accounts, ensuring proper conduct of the party's finances, and to act as a forum for the party's leadership to discuss vital issues and carve out the party's agenda". The Trafalgar Club is the party's fundraising arm.
The party is organised around 12 regions, based upon the UK European Parliament constituencies, each with an organiser. The party also organises four groups that deal with specific areas of activity–Land and People (rural affairs), Pensioners' Awareness Group, the Friends of European Nationalism (a New Zealand-based organisation) and the Ethnic Liaison Committee, which co-ordinates work with non-whites. The BNP has 16 specifically official posts:
- Chairman – Nick Griffin
- Deputy Chairman – vacant
- Director of Administration – vacant
- National Treasurer – Clive Jefferson
- National Organiser – Adam Walker
- National Media spokesman – Simon Darby
- National Elections Officer – Alwyn Deacon
- Legal Director – vacant
- Editor of Identity – John Bean
- Editor of Voice of Freedom – Martin Wingfield
- Head of Publicity – Charlie Whythe
- Head of the party's 18–30 group 'Resistance' – Kieren Trent
- Secretary of the "ProFam" group - Lynne Mozar
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