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• £5 will mean we deliver election campaign leaflets to 40 houses • £10 will enable ...
• £5 will mean we deliver election campaign leaflets to 40 houses • £10 will enable ...
Help maintain a fair election in May; bigger parties can afford to use Royal Mail, but SDGP is a grass roots organisation with people power.
Last May all local elections across England were postponed for a year. This means that we are fighting to win and keep seats on County, District and Parish/Town Councils across Stroud District!
As Election Day approaches May 6th, we are busy writing, printing and putting newsletters through doors, phoning local residents and supporters, and organising in our target wards and county divisions. While the bigger parties are paying to use the royal mail, now that its permitted to distribute literature, we must rely on boots on the ground to get our message out.
This is a huge task unlike any we have ever faced before – and we urgently need your help!
The Stroud District Green Party is strong and punches above its weight on the County, District and Town/Parish level. Despite the lockdown restrictions in place for most of the year, our Green Councillors have been an active bunch.
Here are just a few of the things they have been working on:
• Green Councillors made the motion to set the carbon neutral 2030 target and the CN2030 Strategy is now out for public consultation.
• Green Councillors (and many members) have been actively involved in organising community Climate Action Networks in 17 communities.
• Developing a £1m plan to replace gas heating in the grade 1 listed council main offices and the historic Port mill in Brimscombe with water source heat pumps from the local river.
• Working with Gloucestershire Energy Co-op to replace storage radiators in sheltered housing with PV panels, batteries & ground source heat pumps.
• Converting refuse vehicles to electric.
• Winning funding for rewilding & tree planting schemes.
• Championing cycle routes as the best alternative to huge and expensive road projects.
• Supporting cyclists with improvements to cycle paths and covered cycle parking.
• Cutting edge energy policies in the Local Plan, including identifying sites for renewable energy generation, energy efficiency, active travel connectivity and green infrastructure next year.
• Passed motions on Universal Basic Income, Proportional representation and support to a local sustainable and equitable Food Strategy.
• More funding for community libraries.
• Creation of the County Single Use Plastic Task Force, chaired by Green Cllr Eva Ward.
• County funding for Cotswold Canals Trust canal remediation work in Chalford.
• Green County Councillors have used their Growing Your Communities funding to support local youth projects (Allsorts and Studio 18).
This year we are campaigning to keep two county council seats and gain one more, win 12 targeted district council seats (to increase the number of Green Councillors from the current nine) and increase Green presence on parish and town councils.
We know what one Green voice can achieve. Here in Stroud we know what even more great things a multitude of Green voices in local government can get done! We do not have the resources that the bigger parties have and do not accept corporate or union donations to fund our campaigns (or influence our policies!).
This project successfully funded on 22nd April 2021