If you’ve never been to one of our meetings before and not fancied a more formal meet-up, then try this… our final get-together of the year, with all Green members, supporters and friends welcome for a gathering from 7.30pm onwards.

We’ll be meeting at The Ale House in Chelmsford for an evening of political chat and general Green updates…. looking back on the ups and downs of the year, and what may lie ahead the other side of the festive period and New Year!

The venue is very close to Chelmsford train and bus stations at: 24-26 Viaduct Road, Chelmsford, CM1 1TS.

Do get in touch if you have any queries or questions beforehand, or just want to know what it’s all about. ALL are very welcome!

Looking ahead to early highlights in 2025, we will have our first monthly meeting of 2025 on the evening of Wednesday January 22, where we have a speaker lined up: Rachel Eburne of Mid Suffolk District Council, talking to us about what it’s like to be a local councillor and a Green in the room.

That will take place at our now regular venue, Hey Joe in Ropers Yard just off Crown Street in Brentwood – and, as usual, will also be available hybrid via Zoom for those unable to join in person.

There will be a first Green Drinks of the new year on Wednesday February 26 – details will be confirmed early in 2025, but it may well be back at The Ale House again. So come along this time, and you’ll be familiar for next time!

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Following the sad news of the passing of long-serving Councillor Ian Grundy, there will be two by-elections on Thursday 12 December 2024.

One is for the Stock division of Essex County Council, while the other is for the South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting ward of Chelmsford City Council.

A full list of candidates can be found on the Chelmsford City Council website at https://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/voting-and-elections/upcoming-elections/.

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Explorers leader William Beard reached out to Brentwood and Chelmsford Green Party alongside others asking for a representative to join in the event and talk to the explorers, present our party’s stance on key issues and debate topics of interest to the explorers.

David (centre of photo) was keen to take part on behalf of B&CGP and was joined by several other Brentwood party representatives, to respond to a wide array of questions from the explorers, including immigration and gender identity. 

Brentwood and Chelmsford Green Party is always happy to get involved in similar local events, so please feel free to reach out to us at contact@chelmsford.greenparty.org.uk.

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It’s an easy location to get to by public transport from most parts of Brentwood and Chelmsford, so hopefully lots of members and supporters will be able to come along (from 7.30pm onwards) that evening.

If you’re one of our many new members since the Election, or just not been to a meeting recently, then this will provide a relaxed introduction to your fellow Greens. We’ll chat about topical political issues locally and nationally; what happened at the recent Green Party conference, and what’s going on at Westminster are bound to come up in conversation.

You can find The Ale House at: 24-26 Viaduct Road, Chelmsford, CM1 1TS. Everyone is welcome !

Future dates for your diary

Our meetings for the next two months will both be taking place at Hey Joe in Brentwood (10 Ropers Yard, Hart Street, Brentwood, CM14 4FU), as well as hybrid online via Zoom.

Next month’s date is Wednesday October 23. And then the Brentwood and Chelmsford Green Party’s Annual General Meeting takes place on Wednesday November 27. Both will start at 7.30pm – and we’re hoping to have some exciting speakers lined up… so watch this space!

Also next month, Brentwood and Chelmsford Greens are playing host to this year’s AGM of Essex Green Party. You may have received an email from Essex Greens about this already, but if not it’s taking place on Saturday October 19 from 11am-3pm at: Quaker Meeting House, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2QL.

Green Party members from right across Essex will be coming along – and all from our area are welcome. So it’s a good chance to meet some new Greens.

They hope to have an excellent guest speaker, while there will be time to celebrate the recent Green election successes across the county, and plan election strategy for 2025 ahead of the Essex County Council ballot next May.

Sign up for the Essex Green Party AGM here

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Everyone is welcome to our Summer Social in Central Park, from 12 noon (Sunday, August 25th) through the afternoon, gathering somewhere near the lake and play area. Come along any time that suits you best.

Just bring some food and drink as you want; and bring along any friends and family too, including all the children. The more the merrier!

Any problems finding us on the day – drop Chair, Julian Goode a line on 07785 527106.

After this, Brentwood and Chelmsford Green Party will be back to regular monthly get-togethers; with a Green Drinks in Chelmsford (venue TBC) on Wednesday, September 25th, and a meeting in Brentwood on Wednesday, October 23rd. Be sure to put the dates in your diary.

We hope to have some interesting speakers lined up for future meetings too, so watch this space…

It’s been a busy year, but a good year to be a Green. So we hope as many Greens can join us to celebrate and enjoy each other’s company on the 25th!

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So with Sian Berry, Carla Denyer, Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns representing us in Westminster, it’s a great time to build on this momentum and get together to discuss all things Green in Brentwood and Chelmsford.

Luckily we don’t have to wait long as our next meeting is this coming Wednesday 24th, starting at 7.30pm! We’ll be meeting at a new venue this month: Hey Joe, the independent record shop now in new premises off Crown Street, at:

10 Ropers Yard, Hart Street, Brentwood, CM14 4FU

And we’ll also be on Zoom for those that can’t attend in person, with the Zoom link mailed to our email subscribers.

What an exciting time to be a Green – come along and join us this week in Brentwood!

Among items on the agenda we’ll have:

• Election 2024 review and discussion
• New members since election day
• Annual GPEW conference 
• August summer social 
• Possible Chelmsford ward by-election 
• And anything else you’d like to raise!

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This month we’re meeting in Brentwood on Wednesday June 26, from 7pm, at The Peasants’ Revolt on Kings Road – handily between the station and High Street.

And you’ll hopefully get the chance to chat with the local constituency candidate, alongside meeting up with fellow Green members and supporters ahead of the July 4 poll.

Hoping to say hello on the night will be RJ Learmouth, our candidate in Brentwood and Ongar; although sadly Reza Hossain, our candidate in Chelmsford, is unable to attend this time.

All members and Green supporters will be very welcome to join the political chat and add their thoughts to our Election discussions!

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And Paul, who is our local party Treasurer, encouraged anyone from our area who can follow suit to head to the target seat to help Adrian’s campaign in its crucial final stages.

“To my knowledge Waveney Valley is an unusual constituency as it crosses county boundaries, North Suffolk and South Norfolk. It is largely rural, with few large towns,” said Paul.

“Diss, probably the largest, and on the main London to Norwich rail line, has a population of c.10,000. It is a new constituency created by the boundaries commission after the recent review.

“I met Adrian soon after I joined the party in 2011, at a council by-election in Norwich and he recruited me to the campaign team for the 2014 European Elections in Eastern Region, which, to a significant extent, kick started my involvement in the party.

“Close to a hundred members arrived at Diss to door knock and/or deliver leaflets in the town and surrounding villages and hamlets. In recent years the party has gone from strength to strength in this area. It currently is the majority group on Mid Suffolk District Council and has recently won a seat on Norfolk County Council in South Norfolk.

“With postal votes likely to be delivered to households this week, it is important to make contact with as many of these voters as possible in the next few days. For those not involved in active politics, the purpose of canvassing is to identify those who either will vote for your party or who are quite likely to vote for the party; it is not to try to convert people.

“On the whole the reception was very good. A number of residents said we were the only party they had seen. The number of Green posters around the town was encouraging, but I have no doubt that there are plenty of silent Tories, whose votes are still up for grabs. In the village I visited in the afternoon, it was a straight Tory vs Green contest. A number of people insisted that they could never vote Labour, but were disillusioned with the Tory Party and recognised that we were the party campaigning against the polluting of the local river and opposing the proposed installation of pylons from Norwich to Tilbury.

“Waveney Valley is one of our four target seats  in England, and my sense is it will be close. There’s just over two weeks to go in the campaign and every conversation and every vote will count.

“The more members of Brentwood & Chelmsford Green Party and Eastern Region Green Party who can attend between now and polling day, the more doorstep conversations & the more leaflets that can be delivered, the better. This is a fun day  with likeminded people, working towards getting our first MP in the East.”

To find out more about the Action Days coming up in Waveney Valley and to sign up see:

https://actionnetwork.org/campaigns/adrian-ramsay-for-waveney-valley

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The ‘Meet the Candidates’ event, will take place that Monday evening at Old Brentwoods Club in Ashwells Road in Pilgrims Hatch north of the town centre, with RJ able to discuss Green policies for the election with the other constituency candidates.

“This is a unique opportunity for the constituents of Brentwood and Ongar to meet all six candidates at one time and to put questions to them, so it should prove to be popular,” said Chamber chairman Colin Barber.

There will be informal networking at the bar from 6:30pm, with the formal part of the event commencing at 7pm.

The event is open to everyone in the Brentwood and Ongar constituency. There is no charge to attend the event, but the Chamber do ask you to register in advance at: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/brentwoodchamber

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Reza, who has lived in Chelmsford and worked in the NHS for the past 20 years and did his training to become a GP in the city, said: “I can see that the NHS has been in crisis for the past 10 years. We know we now have the longest NHS outpatient waiting lists for the past 25 years.

“And we have people waiting for many hours when they attend A&E too. I have personally seen that people can wait 9-12 months to see a specialist in Chelmsford as well, after they have been referred,” added Reza, who now works in the community as a local GP at Little Waltham Surgery, and as a community dermatologist in Mid-Essex. He will be standing for Brentwood and Chelmsford Greens in the General Election on July 4.

“I am so happy that the Green Party of England and Wales wants a Fairer, Greener society. I think that people should vote Green. The Green Party is so important because we believe in preserving social health care.

“And the Green Party will be campaigning for the extra funding for the extra staff that the health care service desperately needs.”

Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay, parliamentary candidate in the new Waveney Valley constituency on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, backed up Reza’s comments by saying: “Labour is offering fantasy plans to end the NHS crisis. It wants to pay the private sector more, make existing staff work longer hours and squeeze more patients into overcrowded wards.

“Waiting for growth, won’t cut waiting lists. You can’t seriously reduce the waiting lists, or build a health service for the future, without raising the money you actually need through fairer tax, as well as tackling the profit motive.

“Greens will be unveiling our practical solutions that offer real hope and real change, support staff and invest in facilities to defend our NHS.”

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