The society today attracts numerous high-profile speakers – in recent years, Vince Cable, Menzies Campbell, Nick Clegg, Simon Hughes, Chris Huhne, and David Steel.

During the 2005 United Kingdom general election it helped organise a rally of 2,500 people with Charles Kennedy in Market Square.

The society was continuously called Cambridge University Liberal Club (CULC) from 1886 until 1988 (apart from in the years 1916-9, when it suspended its activities during World War I).

In Autumn 2015, the society ran a campaign against proposals by Cambridgeshire County Council to switch off streetlights in Cambridge after midnight.

In May 2017, the society helped secure the election of Liberal Democrats to the main student divisions of Cambridgeshire County Council.

In the 2018 City Council elections, the Association was integrated into a successful city-wide campaign where the local party gained two seats in student wards.