Thank you to everyone who put themselves forward. Welcome to new committee members and welcome back to those returning!

• Chair – Lauren James
• Treasurer – Ann Were
• Fundraising Officer – Kerry Vosper
• Election Returns Officer – Philip Davies
• Communications Officer – Tanya Sinnett, Clive Shakesheff, Matthew Barney (job share)
• Membership Secretary – Stephen Gray, Daniel Harvey (job share)
• Newport Coordinator – Lauren James
• Monmouthshire Coordinator – Ian Chandler
• Torfaen Coordinator – Phil Davies

Nominations are now open for coordinators for Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly and Merthyr Tydfil – so get in touch with Lauren by emailing chair@gwent.greenparty.wales if you’d like more information.

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2020 has been a challenging year for all of us.

But it has also given us the strength to make sure that 2021 will be the year we get Amelia Womack elected as our first Green Party member of the Senedd.

As priority region for Wales we have the resources we need to support campaigns, staff and volunteer recruitment and media spend.

We now need to build our volunteer campaign team through the passion and commitment of all our members and supporters.

People like you.

We are recruiting for a number of exciting volunteer roles ranging from media and marketing to campaign and coordination. Whether you can see yourself on the front line or making things happen behind the scenes, you can be part of the biggest volunteer-led election campaign in the history of the Wales Green Party.

You will be working with an amazing and passionate strategic regional campaign team, with Amelia at the lead and coaching and mentoring available so you can learn new skills too.

If you think you can help in any way, click here to see the selection of roles we are looking to fill and to let us know if you are interested.

You can be the reason we get Amelia into the Senedd next year.

Thanks so much for your support and of course please pass this onto anyone else you think might be interested in volunteering to be part of what would be a historic achievement for the Green movement next year.

Let’s make change happen in Wales.

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Cynhadledd, croeso i Gasnewydd, croeso i Gymru.

Conference, welcome to Newport, welcome to Wales.

Conference, these are troubling times. With our democracy in crisis and at a time of Climate Emergency our Green voice is needed more than ever.

Our political system is broken with Johnson and his Bullingdon bully boys intent on defying Parliament and dragging us over the dangerous cliff edge of a no deal Brexit, trashing communities, livelihoods and endangering peace in Ireland.

Increasing extreme weather events here and across the planet, together with the biodiversity crisis, highlight the devastating impacts of the climate emergency and the challenging future we face.

In the face of these challenges we see the tired old parties continuing to fight the battles of yesterday, refusing to acknowledge that business as usual is no longer an option. This is why we are seeing increasing numbers of people turning to the Greens. Here and across Europe the Green wave is growing as people recognise and share our desire for a cleaner world and a fairer society. A vote for the Green Party is a vote for the future.

Here in Wales we have our own perspective on these challenges as we have seen the impacts and potential of the National Assembly for Wales, currently celebrating twenty years of devolution. As a party with a core value of devolving power to a local level Wales Green Party strongly supports all calls for increased devolution of powers to the Senedd, up to and including full independence if voted for by the people of Wales in any future referendum. As Westminster becomes increasingly inward looking and appears indifferent to the fate of a post Brexit Wales it is no surprise that many people are beginning to imagine a different future away from Westminster.

Wales Green Party also welcomes the recent legislation that will give sixteen- and seventeen-year olds the vote at the next Assembly election. A longstanding Green policy this will greatly boost democratic participation and opportunities for new thinking, and we will continue to campaign for votes at sixteen in all elections.

As a nation with many coastal communities at risk of flooding due to rising sea levels and an agricultural sector threatened by extreme weather events, people in Wales are acutely aware of the need for meaningful action to tackle the climate crisis. This was recognised by Wales becoming the first nation to declare a Climate Emergency with many councils following this lead. As Greens we will work within our communities and with every level of government to ensure that these welcome words translate into meaningful action.

Here in Wales we also have the ground-breaking Well-being of Future Generations Act, passed by the Welsh Government in 2015. This unique piece of legislation should be and could be a game changer and the welcome scrapping of the planned M4 relief road earlier this year was a hopeful sign that the implications of the Act are finally influencing policy.  Yet policy and decision making in so many areas still lag woefully behind.

At a time of biodiversity crisis, we see communities across Wales, like Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan, fighting the proposed destruction of valuable ancient woodland for the construction of an unnecessary, over engineered dam. Business as usual.

At a time of Climate Emergency, we see Welsh Government ministers boasting of increased air traffic from Cardiff airport, pushing for airport expansion and bidding for new routes such as Cardiff to London, Cardiff to Manchester. Business as usual.

This is why we need Green elected representation so urgently at every level of government in Wales. Greens holding decision makers to account. Greens helping shape a cleaner, greener, fairer future. Greens doing things differently. Business as usual is no longer an option.

Elected Greens in Wales will deliver a Green New Deal for Wales, ensuring a just transition for previously abandoned communities. Elected Greens will renew our democracy with a new vision for prosperity without unsustainable growth, a vision that will address the grinding poverty and inequality so widespread across the country.

In less than two years’ time Wales Green Party will be contesting the National Assembly for Wales elections. We are on track to get our first elected Greens onto the last legislative body in the UK without Green representation. This will be a game changer. With your help and support we will get the elected representation that Wales so desperately needs.

Thank you, Diolch

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This shows that the appetite for Green politics is growing in Wales, and for good reason. The IPCC report showed us that we have just 12 years to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown, and while Wales is leading the way in the UK, our representatives in Westminster and the Senedd still aren’t doing enough.

There is only one party who can offer the change we need. Join the Green Party of England and Wales to stand for what you stand on. 

https://join.greenparty.org.uk

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