Hazel Dawe, party treasurer

The Labour-run City Council have seized direct control of East Oxford Community Centre (EOCC) on the Cowley Road) and plan to sell off half the Community Centre site and 'improve' the rest (funded by further sell-offs; East Oxford Games Hall and the Film Oxford building).

The Centre was run by the East Oxford Community Association before the Council power-grab. The Centre is home to many local groups (including Fusion Arts & Oxford Action Resource Centre) and most nights all available rooms are booked out. Both the Games Hall and Film Oxford are also well used.

The Greens are contesting claims by Labour that they can re-provide 'improved' facilities on a site half the current size whilst incorporating those activities previously carried out in the Film Oxford building and East Oxford Games Hall. 

The Greens have put forward an alternative solution - to instead develop land in nearby Cave Street for housing and instead redevelop the Community Centre land for use by social and community enterprises.  This will provide MORE housing and retain the integrity of the EOCC site. 

This is a call for candidates to stand for the Green Party at the next elections to Parliament and to councils in Oxfordshire.

Given the turmoil in Parliament over Brexit, there may be a General Election in the next 6 months. In February, we will select our candidates for the 6 constituencies: Banbury, Henley, Oxford East, Oxford West and Abingdon, Wantage, and Witney. If you are interested, fill in the form below and then complete the full candidate application form before 31 Jan. 2019.

We also need more Green councillors in Oxfordshire. Could you follow in the footsteps of our Green Party councillors in Oxford, and stand for election? You could improve the quality of our councils by representing the people and views that the governing parties ignore.

Act now

If you are at all interested in standing as a candidate, or helping organise a campaign for a candidate, please complete the form below, and the Elections Committee will get back to you with more details.

If you want any more information on what is involved in standing as candidate, please contact the Elections Co-ordinator, David Newman.

What is your Banbury candidate up to? See here:

http://middletongreen.org/2015/01/25/visit-to-banbury-market-17th-january-2015/

Oxfordshire Greens support the launch of Rural Action Oxfordshire in Witney. Parliamentary candidates Stuart Macdonald, Witney and Ian Middleton, Banbury and Bicester with Green Party activists at the launch.

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A big thank you to everyone who came to our 12^th night event and made it such a success. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves as much as I did. There was certainly a great buzz around the place.

We made £193 for the Green Party as well as having fun ourselves.

However, somebody left a dark grey Marks and Spencer’s V necked pullover behind.  Please do get in touch if that was you: Hazel Dawe 07944471083 or hazel.dawe@greenparty.org.uk

Oxford is now the most unaffordable place to live in the UK. Houses cost more than 11 times average wages. The country and Oxford's council have a housing crisis on their hands.

Too often, people paying rent get poor service from rogue agencies and landlords. Greens want to take action to drive up standards in rented housing and to tackle the burden of rent.

We believe that access to housing is a human right—the council must do more to meet the housing needs of people in Oxford. Greens support increasing the number of council and social homes available to those who need them.

No council houses have been completed in the last year in Oxford. So when suitable houses become available on the local market, Oxford City Council should purchase them to increase the council housing stock.

This year we are printing twice as many copies of Green News, the Oxfordshire Green Party's newspaper, to get our message out across Oxfordshire. We need your help to print 26,000 copies.

The press are happy to publicise UKIP, but rarely even talk about the Green Party. We saw that in the European Election campaign, and now the broadcasters have decided to include one party with a single MP in the leadership debate, but not the Green Party. We cannot rely on them, we have have to do it ourselves.

In Green News, your neighbours will hear from our parliamentary candidates what we are doing on issues such as affordable housing, care for the vulnerable, fracking, renewable energy, flooding and what our councils are not doing.

26,000 copies of Green News will be delivered around the county to publicise our candidates and the Green Fair. It will cost us just over £1000 to print. Please help.

• £8 pays for a bundle to be delivered to 200 houses in your street.
• £40 will pay for 1000.
• £80 pays for copies for a whole council ward.

Please chip in what you can, and make this a successful Green News, and a good start to our general election campaign.

Great Bee summit at the Natural History Museum in Oxford today. Big thank you to local Friends of the Earth for organising it. Great questions from our two councillors, David Williams and Elise Benjamin. Both disproving, from different perspectives that Defra's moan of 'not enough evidence' is rubbish. and just a pathetic excuse to do nothing while the planet is ruined.

When you have volunteered to help the Oxfordshire Green Party, please tell us something about your skills.

For some tasks, we need specialist skills, hence this long list.

But most tasks anyone can do, given the training we provide.

Help us hold your local Council to account

Oxfordshire Green Party is running campaigns to fight homelessness, save local community facilities, tackle air pollution, ban single-use plastics and generally improve the quality of your local council services by getting more Green councillors elected. Our Green councillors have already got local councils to divest from fossil fuels, improve cycling facilities and require 50% social housing in new developments.

We don't have much money, but we do have thousands of members and supporters in Oxfordshire. Will you join us to help make a difference in your local area? Please sign up below to volunteer in any way you can. 

We are campaigning all year round on local issues and to get more Green councillors elected. If you have just a few hours to spare please do phone Kate Robinson on 07582 903996 to find how you can help, at a time that suits you.

THANK YOU