Sam Peters, Green Party PPC for Guildford Green Party members have selected Sam Peters, GWGP co-chair, as the Green candidate to contest the parliamentary seat of Guildford in the next General Election. . Sam was born and grew up in Guildford, and has stood in local elections before – last year coming just 62 votes […]
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Following the ongoing issues with water outages across Godalming, Guildford and surrounding villages, Green councillors and members were disappointed to see Thames Water and both MPs for the area fail to attend a meeting convened by Waverley Borough Council to discuss the outages. Greens had been calling for an inquiry alongside our WBC coalition partners […]
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After over a month of back and forth, our co-chair Sam Peters has finally managed to get Surrey County Council to host a petition asking them to take action on idling! Sign the petition here Idling – which is leaving a vehicle engine running unnecessarily while stationary – generates around 150 balloons of exhaust fumes […]
Join local Greens for our next litterpick on Sunday 19 November, 10-11.30am around Stoke in Guildford! . All are welcome, member or not. We will meet in front of the King’s Head pub on Kings Road, Guildford, GU1 4JW. Grabbers, hi-viz and bags will all be provided – just bring something warm (and cross your […]
Solar Sisters, Guildford’s first zero-waste shop and café, runs regular ‘Green Talks’ – and on Thursday 16 November our very own Green councillor Steve Williams will be speaking! . Come along from 18.30-20.00 to hear Steve discuss how progressives working together in local politics can overcome our undemocratic system and create a more equal and […]
Many of our members, current and former councillors were pleased to join the launch of Godalming Library of Things yesterday! A Library of Things acts like a normal library, but instead of borrowing books you borrow items you’d use every so often but that it makes no sense for you to buy – for example, […]
This Wednesday’s episode of Politics Live (20/09/2023) was viewed with particular interest by Guildford constituency-based members of Guildford & Waverley Green Party, given that it featured both the Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer, and Angela Richardson MP. However, Richardson made several claims during the episode which, while unfortunately not scrutinised by the presenter, we felt […]
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On 19 May, Cllr Shirley Faraday, who represents Godalming’s Farncombe & Catteshall ward, was unanimously elected as Godalming Town Mayor for the civic year 2022/23! Shirley was elected as a Green councillor in 2019 – the first time she has been a councillor. She said “It is my privilege to serve the people of Godalming […]
