Thanet Green Party announces candidates for KCC elections on 6 May 8th March 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela Thanet Green Party is delighted to be standing a full slate of candidates for May’s KCC elections. Ramsgate In Ramsgate, our candidates are Becky Wing and Katie Gerrard. Becky needs little introduction to Ramsgate residents. She has been Green Councillor for Central Harbour ward on Thanet District Council and Ramsgate Town Council for two years, […] Read more »
Thanet Green View: our spring newsletter 8th March 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela Welcome to the online version of the Thanet Green Party newsletter, covering topics including the community Covid response, snack bags for NHS staff, helping lorry drivers stranded at Manston at Christmas and a new Thanet District Council scheme looking at the future of Ramsgate. We’ll be delivering printed copies of the newsletter to households following […] Read more »
On International Women’s Day, I’m asking how the recent lockdown has impacted women’s careers 8th March 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela By Katie Gerrard, Thanet Green Party Every International Women’s Day I consider what we’ve achieved since this time last year. I don’t think anyone can count 2020 as a normal time, but has it affected women disproportionately to men? March 8th also marks the day schools reopen after three months of online lessons. How has […] Read more »
Ellington Park: statement from Green Central Harbour Ward Cllr Becky Wing 4th February 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela As Green Councillor for Central Harbour, I am the lone Green Councillor on Ramsgate Town Council and 1 of only 3 Green TDC Councillors. So I have an uphill task in raising environmental concerns. If you know me, you will know that the felling or loss of any of our habitat saddens me, and that […] Read more »
Join us for an online vegan cook-along, 3 February at 18:00 29th January 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela Are you vegan, or just vegan-curious? Want to try a new recipe? Join us for a fun vegan cook-along! We are very lucky to know the fabulous #theoutspokenblonde who certainly knows all about Vegan cooking. So please join us in ZOOM for a cook-along. Remember to grab the ingredients before the 3rd of Feb💚 The […] Read more »
Update on our community “snack bags for NHS staff” campaign 29th January 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela Deb and Phil Shotton, Vice Chair and Policy Advisor respectively of Thanet Green Party, have an update on their community campaign to supply NHS snack bags to our hard working NHS staff: “First and foremost, a big shout out of thanks to those in our Thanet communities who have donated both time and money to […] Read more »
Covid-19 and the Government’s schools policy 7th January 2021 by Angela Thanet Green Party press statement, 3 January 2021 Thanet’s Green Councillors Becky Wing, Mike Garner and Trevor Roper are seriously alarmed by the confusion and harm being caused by the Government’s ill-considered schools policy in the face of the latest Covid-19 crisis. In a situation worsened both by the abject failure of the test-and-trace system […] Read more »
Winter Green View: our autumn/winter newsletter 7th January 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela Sadly, the impact of Covid prevented us from delivering our Autumn/ Winter Green View newsletter to every house & flat in Ramsgate as we’d planned – so here is a copy for those of you who didn’t receive one! Our Spring newsletter will be out in February/ March, ongoing restrictions permitting. To contribute an article […] Read more »
Snack bags for NHS heroes 7th January 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela Thanet Green Party press release, 4 January 2021 Thanet Green Party Councillors and volunteers have collaborated with Our Kitchen in Ramsgate to bring snack bags to hard-pressed NHS staff working on the front line at Margate’s QEQM hospital. A source at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust tells us: “This second wave has hit local […] Read more »
Little Lights – How a Community Made Christmas at Manston – by Katie Gerrard 7th January 2021 / 9th March 2021 by Angela Over Christmas an undetermined number of lorries sat stationary at Manston Airfield and on the routes to the port of Dover. The port was closed for several days, re-opening too late for many of the stranded lorry drivers to get home for Christmas. On 22nd December Priti Patel claimed just shy of 900 lorries at […] Read more »
