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Winchester Green Party was convened in March 2008 and has fought in the local elections every year since.

We meet regularly on the first Wednesday of every month, at The Hyde Tavern, Hyde Street, Winchester, from 7.30 to 9.30pm. All are welcome.

If you are at all interested in joining or helping, or you have an issue you wish to raise, please don't hesitate to contact us!

About the Green Party

Caroline Lucas made history by becoming the first ever Green Party MP in May 2010.

The last time a UK political party had an MP elected for the first time was in 1892, when Keir Hardie was elected as an Independent Socialist. The policies he put forward: votes for women, progressive taxation, free schools, pensions, and the abolition of the House of Lords, have all now been implemented, with the exception of the last.

The Green Party was formed in 1973, to raise concerns about energy security, the environment, and social inequality. Green politics is of a new and radical kind, guided by simple but fundamental principles:

  • Humankind depends on the diversity of the natural world for its existence. We do not believe that other species are expendable.
  • The Earth's physical resources are finite. We threaten our future if we try to live beyond those means, so we must build a sustainable society that guarantees our long-term future.
  • Our actions should take account of the well-being of other nations, other species, and future generations. We should not pursue our well-being to the detriment of theirs.

Visit the Green Party website for more.

Area of Coverage

Winchester Green Party will focus its endeavours on the Winchester City wards and immediately surrounding area, but it also covers the following wards:

Winchester City Council wards: All except Boarhunt and Southwick, Denmead, Whitely, Wickham. The complete list is: Bishops Waltham, Cheriton and Bishops Sutton, Colden Common and Twyford, Compton and Otterbourne, Droxford, Soberton and Hambledon, Itchen Valley, Kings Worthy, Littleton and Harestock, Olivers Battery and Badger Farm, Owslebury and Curdridge, Shedfield, Sparsholt, St Barnabas, St Bartholomew, St John and All Saints, St Luke, St Michael, St Paul, Swanmore and Newtown, The Alresfords, Upper Meon Valley, Wonston and Micheldever,

East Hants District Council wards: Alton (Amery), Alton (Ashdell), Alton (Eastbrooke), Alton (Westbrooke), Alton (Whitedown), Alton (Wooteys), Binsted and Bentley, Downland (the parishes of Beech, Bentworth, Chawton, Farringdon and Wield), Four Marks and Medstead, Headley, Holybourne and Froyle (the parishes of Holybourne, Froyle, Lasham and Shalden), Lindford, Ropley and Tisted (the parishes of East Tisted, Newton Valence, Ropley and West Tisted), Selborne (the parishes of Kingsley, Selborne and Worldham), Whitehill (Chase), Whitehill (Deadwater), Whitehill (Hogmoor), Whitehill (Pinewood).

Test Valley Borough Council wards: Amport, Andover (Alamein), Andover (Harroway), Andover (Millway), Andover (Winton), Andover (St Mary's), Anna, Bourne Valley, Broughton and Stockbridge, Charlton, Harwood, Over Wallop, Penton Bellinger.