18 February 2024 / 28 July 2024 by daveeldervass
Your hard working team, for the benefit of Hitchin Bearton residents. We are not whipped by the Green Party, so we are free to represent voters. Our candidates are: We can win in Hitchin Bearton! Mary Marshall Mary has lived in Hitchin for 25 years and works from home for an Employee Owed Company as […]
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28 January 2024 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
Do you need to replace a fence? Did some panels come down in the recent storms? Consider replacing them with shrubs/ trees such as hawthorn, dogwood, forsythia, rowan or buddleia which will provide food and shelter for birds and insects and not blow down in future. Or you can take out a few slats in […]
21 January 2024 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
“sparrow” by Hitched Hiker is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Every year, hundreds of thousands of nature lovers like you take part, helping to build a picture of how garden birds are faring. Across the UK, over half a million people took part in Big […]
Have your say on Hertfordshire County Council’s budget spending (2024-25) The council has published it’s proposed budget for 2024-25 – what it calls its draft Integrated Plan. It plans to spend over £1billion on services touching the lives of everyone in Hertfordshire and is seeking the views of residents on its plans. You can express […]
7 January 2024 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
Do take any unwanted gifts to charity shops! That will help with the much needed circular economy and it will help everyone trying to follow “buy nothing new” for January (and longer….). Buy Nothing New Month is all about moving beyond simply recycling, to reducing the amount of new stuff that we buy, and by […]
2 January 2024 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
We hope you had a wonderful Festive Season! We need your help and support to elect our first Green Councillor in Stevenage! We need help with leafleting and door-knocking in the target-to-win ward of Longmeadow, Stevenage, in January. Will you help us to get effective messages across to voters and find out voters’ concerns in […]
2 December 2023 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
This Saturday (2nd December) is Small Business Saturday! Small Business Saturday UK is a grassroots, non-commercial campaign, which highlights small business success and encourages consumers to ‘shop local’ and support small businesses in their communities. This year the Green Party of England and Wales is calling for: Small businesses make a vital contribution to the […]
26 November 2023 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
Co-leader Carla Denyer was on the ground in Westminster on Thursday to react to chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn statement. Our full reaction to the statement can be found here (with a link through to our 10-point alternative). Carla also made this short film for our social media channels (Twitter). The Independent picked up on Carla’s […]
8 October 2023 / 27 March 2024 by daveeldervass
Help our eco systems and wildlife thrive over winter by leaving at least part of your garden “untidy”- with some long grass, piles of leaves for hibernating hedgehogs and hollow stems for overwintering insects, and encourage your council to do the same! Thank you to Katrina Nice for most of our ecotips!
Hertfordshire County Council has published its strategy for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, including the provision of more charging points. They say “The strategy sets out a plan to provide more chargepoints so residents and businesses will be able to recharge their electric vehicles conveniently and appropriately in the future. It’s forecast that by 2030, […]
