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Re-elect Melanie Main
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Aim
Re-elect Melanie Main as Green councillor for Morningside in Edinburgh.
Melanie Main was elected Green councillor for Meadows/Morningside in 2012, and has been working hard ever since, doing just what she said she’d do. Here are just a few examples:
She worked tirelessly as a founding member of Bruntsfield’s community owned Green Grocer, Dig-in, the first urban community run green grocer in Scotland. Melanie was chair for the first two years, as the venture was setup and the shop opened.
For 4 years Melanie persistently campaigned with fellow Green Councillor Steve Burgess for rights of way across the beautiful Astley Ainslie Hospital site. Following their success public access is now guaranteed across the site in perpetuity, linking residents to the shops on Morningside Road and maintaining a green space for local families.
Melanie called for and led the largest participatory budget event – South Central Decides – in Edinburgh, transforming the way our council listens to residents. Over £200,000 local funding given over to residents to decide how to spend, with the money being used to fix roads, improve the local environment, and fund local community projects.
Melanie has supported hundreds of M&M residents finding solutions to individual problems and local issues.
Melanie sits on the Education and Audit committees, holding the Council and administration to account. Though not glamorous, her work on governance has been transformational in opening up access to information.
Melanie is standing for re-election in May 2017, and needs your support. The respect she has won in the area will no doubt translate into local support. For Green councillors it's hard work locally that counts - earning each vote, one by one.
That means getting the Green message out to people: leaflets, newsletters, stalls, posters and letters. And that costs money.
To re-elect Melanie as a Green councillor will cost over £1,500. Greens don’t have big business supporters. Every penny of our campaigns comes from members, supporters and local people like you. The Local Green Team is organising fundraising events and hopes to raise the first £500.
That is why we are asking you to help raise £1,000 for Melanie’s campaign for Morningside.
- £10 gives us a bundle of eye-catching window posters
- £50 pays for a stall kit with leaflets to make sure we are visible in the local area;
- £100 allows us to target a specific area with letters about local issues.
- £500 gives us a leaflet, hand-delivered to every home.
So please give what you can now. Although election day is 4th May and seems far away, getting the funding sorted now allows us to plan properly and deliver the best possible campaign.
Your donation really does make all the difference!
If you'd like to ask Melanie a question, or have an hour or two to help in the campaign to re-elect her, please don't hesitate to contact her at:
- E-mail: [email protected]
- Twitter: @melaniemain
- Facebook:
This project successfully funded on 12th February 2017