In less than 10 days’ the Green Party of England and Wales will be hosting ‘Greens 2017’ the first ever joint congress between the Global Greens and the European Green Party from Thursday 30 March to Sunday 2 April 2017 at the ACC in Liverpool. The event will also incorporate our Spring Conference (Friday 31 … Read more
Hi members, Green Party conference is almost here, but with a twist. This year the Green Party of England and Wales will be hosting the first ever joint Congress between the Global Greens and the European Green Party. If you’ve thought about attending conference recently but not quite made it, this is the conference to … Read more
Four members of the NFGP distributed leaflets in Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst on Saturday, 11 June, promoting the Green Party’s stand for staying in the EU. The weather was overcast and footfall was not high, but a useful number of leaflets were distributed and there were some interesting short conversations. Passers-by were variously indifferent, of an opposite view, … Read more
Last Saturday I organised a litter pick on behalf of the Green Party in Totton. It was surprisingly simple to do and here are some key pointers: 1. PLAN WHEN TO DO IT. Autumn to Spring is a good time as people are less reluctant to spend a morning getting hot in a high … Read more
Hustings are a wonderful opportunity for the public (and you) to meet your local parliamentary candidate and promote their key policies, and have them answer your questions. Janet Richards (New Forest West) will be holding a hustings in Ringwood on Friday 17th April – save the date and there will be more details to follow. Sally May (New Forest East) … Read more
Dear Green Member, Come and join Keith Taylor MEP at a FREE discussion on the solutions to the UK’s housing crisis. The Hampshire location is Winchester: www.bit.ly/HousingCrisisW At the event, Keith Taylor Green MEP for South East England will be launching his new report; “Everyone knows we have a housing crisis, let’s do something about … Read more
Last Thursday (19/03/2015) saw our very successful public meeting on climate change in Brockenhurst. We had Adam Ramsay from Open Democracy who was an excellent speaker, as was Richard Barnett from New Forest Transition, Rose Glendinning from Organic Bliss and local member Dan Fish. Over 70 people attended which was fantastic. It was a really interesting event … Read more
Today there’s only fifty days to go until the General Election. Labour are still targeting Caroline’s seat heavily. We can expect them to step this up as the election gets closer. So we need to step it up too. We need to do all that we can to return her to Westminster – this will be close. We can … Read more
The People’s Assembly will be mobilising for an anti-austerity/pro-climate jobs bloc on the Time to Act National Climate March on Saturday 7 March. Organised by the Campaign Against Climate Change Come with your placards and banners. Look out for the People’s Assembly ‘No More Austerity’ banner at the assembly point. Why do we support this demo? Find out … Read more
Janet Richards, our prospective parliamentary candidate for New Forest West will be speaking at an open meeting of the HYDE DISTRICT CLIMATE CHANGE FORUM which is affiliated to NEW FOREST TRANSITION. Date: Wednesday, March 25th at 7.30pm Venue: HYDE WAR MEMORIAL HALL Fordingbridge SP6 2HU (sited at the top of Stucton Hill). It … Read more