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This suffrage banner was made by the Golders Green branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The NUWSS was formed at a conference of all suffrage societies in Birmingham in October 1896. It contrasted with the militant Women's Social and Political Union by advocating only constitutional, non-violent forms of protest and campaigning. Millicent Garrett Fawcett became president of the NUWSS in 1907. She was an excellent tactician and believed that working with the Labour party would be an advantage to the organisation.

The banner appears to have been made by amateurs, probably by the women members of this local branch. It has been made in the union's colours of white, green and red. The colours had symbolic meaning: 'white, the serene faith in ideas which makes the soul divine; green, the perpetual re-fluorescence of hope and youth into the fruit of well-doing; red, the passion and the blood of martyrs and of heroes'.