Winchester Green Party

Winchester Green Party questions council over harmful weed killers

2 June 2023 / 10 August 2024 by richardcannon

As reported in the Hampshire Chronicle… Whilst walking through Winchester City Centre, Green Party Campaigner Richard Needham noticed that some council workers were using a well known weed killer which contains Glyphosates, banned by some councils across the country for harming human health and as a potential carcinogenic. Our co-chair Kate Needham instantly questioned the […]

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Greening Campaign receives £0.5m boost from National Lottery Fund

22 May 2023 / 10 August 2024 by richardcannon

Following a bid alongside Hampshire County Council, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and Southampton University, the Greening Campaign is to receive £495,000 from the National Lottery Funding. As many know, the Hambledon Greening Group has been very active since joining the campaign and just recently held another very successful Festival which attracted many […]

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Hambledon Greening Festival 2023

15 May 2023 / 10 August 2024 by richardcannon

Once again, the Hambledon Greening Group pulled off a fabulous Festival last Saturday 13th May. On a lovely sunny afternoon, crowds gathered to stroll around a diverse selection of Stands which included The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, The Woodland Trust, Energise South Downs, Waterlooville Hedgehog Rescue, The Sustainability Centre, an exhibition by […]

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Green Party show huge gains in popularity all around Hampshire

9 May 2023 / 10 August 2024 by richardcannon

18 months ago Hampshire had no District Councillors elected. Fast forward to May 2023, we now have ten ! In addition, the Isle of Wight has 2. Here are the details..Basingstoke and Deane, 1 – Michael Howard-SorrellEast Hampshire, 2 – James Hogan & Ian JamesHavant, 1 – Grainne RasonNew Forest, 3 – Neil Millington, Adam […]

Local Election results 2023

7 May 2023 / 10 August 2024 by richardcannon

Alresford and Itchen Valley Russell Gordon-Smith (Lib Dem) 2,034 Harry Johnson-Hill (Con) 1,187 Richard Needham (Green) 164 Tessa Valentine (Labour) 74 Majority: 847 Turnout: 40% Bishop’s Waltham Jonathan Williams (Lib Dem) 1,618 Donald Iro (Con) 1,022 Richard Cannon (Green) 232 Steve Haines (Labour) 113 Majority: 596 Turnout: 45% Denmead Paula Langford-Smith (Con) 1,035 Michael Bennett […]

Photos from the Count – Election ’23

6 May 2023 / 10 August 2024 by richardcannon

Click photos to view full sizes Time out in the Cafe Richard, Danny, Malcolm, Giles & Max Giles Gooding Richard Needham Andrew Pogson Julia Priesemann Celebrating the Central Meon Valley win Richard Cannon Malcolm, Giles and Max Our two Winchester Councillors ! Friedrich & Julia Priesemann

Around and about pre-election ’23

25 April 2023 / 10 August 2024 by richardcannon

With more than double the volunteers compared to last year, we’ve been busy distributing leaflets, letters and meeting people listening to any issues they may have and outline our ambitions for the future Add to that we’ve nearly trebled the requests for ‘Vote Green’ boards’ throughout the Meon Valley and some in the city itself. […]

Our 16 Candidates for the local elections on Thursday 4th.May

8 April 2023 / 10 August 2024 by richardcannon

16 wards – 16 candidates vote green Click candidate photos to view details Richard Needham Alresford and Itchen Valley >> Max Priesemann Alresford and Itchen Valley >> Richard Cannon Bishop’s Waltham Danny Lee Central Meon Valley >> Lucinda Graham Colden Common & Twyford Beata Parry Denmead Lorraine Abraham St. Barnabas Charlotte Harley St. Bartholomew Reece […]

Business support for small businesses

24 March 2023 / 4 June 2024 by richardcannon

Danny Lee writes.. The Low Carbon Across the South and East programme provides a free business support programme in the South and East. LoCASE offers grants for businesses of up to £20,000 for installation of energy efficiency measures (up to 40% of the cost of your eligible project, with the remainder matched by your business), as well as training workshops and […]

The M3 Jn9 debate – Having a say

12 March 2023 / 10 August 2024 by richardcannon

Following a presentation about the plan for the M3 / J9 changes by Chris Gilham at our March Member’s meeting it became apparent that we needed to ensure the public are aware that applications to be an ‘interested party’ via the National Infrastructure Planning website needed to be completed before 2359hr. Monday 13th. March, we […]