The WSPU was founded at the Pankhurst family home in Manchester on 10 October 1903 by six women, includingEmmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, who soon emerged as the group's leaders. The WSPU had split from the non-militant National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, disappointed at the lack of success its tactics of persuading politicians through meetings had found the founders decided to form a women-only organisation, which would campaign for social reforms, largely in conjunction with the Independent Labour Party