Hello! I'm Emily, (she/her). I'm currently living in Plymouth after graduating from a Marine Biology and Oceanography course here, however I was most active as a Green Party Member and volunteer in my year-out before uni at my hometown in Suffolk; where I organised and hosted our first Green Fair with my local green party team, and ran as a paper candidate in 2015.

My experience in activism is quite broad, ranging from hosting social media pages posting for awareness and outreach; organising meetings, regional events, and protests; to attending and running workshops on campaigning, intersectionality, and specific campaigns surrounding climate and social justice issues. (As well as some good old fashioned community volunteering and tree planting!)

A lot of this work has been done as a student with help from the incredible team at People & Planet (P&P), where I leaned most about what it means to be an intersectional activist, and have just finished my student trustee term for the last two years.

I think I would be good for the role of Co-chair as I have experience leading teams and delegating tasks and working with people across the network as Campaign-Coordinator for my University's People & Planet group, and as a Regional Organiser for the South West and Wales.

If unsuccessful for the position of Co-chair, I would be suitable for N.P.O using my experience as Secretary for my university's People & Planet group, hosting my local Green Party Facebook page in 2014-15 and my university's P&P socials from 2016-19, and having run and attended various green-minded events and campaigns over the last 7 years before and during university.

My name is Natalia Kubica. Having followed politics and social issues from a young age, I first got actively involved when the climate movement first began to rapidly grow in the UK in early 2019. I joined several activist organisations, and eventually began to campaign in other areas too, such as Free School Meals. Throughout my work in activism, I have had the privilege of speaking to and working with various amazing and experienced activists, and I have gained invaluable skills in organising and mobilising young people. I also founded and led my school’s first Environment Society for Years 7-13 when I was in Sixth Form, providing me with the admin skills and experience necessary for a Young Green Womxn Non-Portfolio Officer. Outside of my involvement in politics, I am about to begin studying Theoretical Physics, a heavily male-dominated field, in university in September.

I joined the Green Party just after the 2019 General Election. Having been mostly involved at a local level, I would like to scale up my involvement within the Party, and this seems like the perfect place to start. Having been a lifelong feminist, I am acutely aware of the underrepresentation, and often blatant misogyny, that womxn in politics experience, and I would like to do whatever I can to empower and support young womxn in the Party. One thing that’s extremely important to me is representation, particularly in the context of intersectionality. I strongly believe in the concept of “nothing about us without us” – womxn who are also members of other marginalised communities should have their voices uplifted, and when conversations take place that concern certain groups, those groups should be able to not only be present, but actively involved. I can never fully understand the experience of womxn who are also members of minorities that I am not a part of, such as trans women and women of colour, but I can endeavour to listen to and empathise with them. As a Young Green Womxn Non-Portfolio Officer, I would work to empower marginalised young womxn within the Party.

Hi, I’m Emily and for this past year I’ve been the social media officer of Young Green Womxn. With the help of the team, I’ve set up new Twitter and Instagram accounts as well as building an interactive relationship with our community. Through my role alongside Rosi Sexton as joint Secretary of Green Party Women, and as a member of Bristol Green Party, I’ve helped to form connections across the party, as well as running a collaborative event with GPW for International Women’s Day.

Outside of the Green Party, my work with XR Youth involves not only protesting on the streets but logistics, speaking and regenerative pastoral care, and this experience has given me a new perspective on activism and organisation. Additionally, this summer I’ll be starting work experience with the magazine Green World, writing about the Party and sustainable current affairs.

Please elect me to:

- Provide training for young women in politics, such as increasing self-confidence in public speaking

- Further strengthen our connections with the other Young Greens Liberation Groups and run a series of events for an Intersectionality Month

- Encourage a regenerative culture in the Party and the Young Greens that looks after activists' wellbeing, due to the high stress nature of activism and eco-anxiety

I would really appreciate this opportunity to continue the work that Young Green Womxn have done this year and to uplift young people in the party. Thank you.

As cliché as it may sound I have been looking for new and exciting ways to get involved in the party and joining the Young Green Womxn committee is the ideal opportunity both for me and members. I have a plethora of experience within politics and specifically the Green Party that provide me with the necessary skills for this role. I have been a member of the party coming up to 3 years and have been involved at a local level but have particularly enjoyed partaking in London Green and national events. However, this was just the tip of the iceberg (climate pun unintended). Over the past 6 months I have worked for the Green Party as a telephone fundraiser. This has allowed me to engage with members in each region of the country, understanding their experiences, taking notes for party improvement and use my persuasive skills to secure funding that has been vital for the local elections and future election campaigns. In this capacity, we recently did a student campaign, making sure students were on the correct membership plan, switching them to the correct plan if need be and encouraging their establishment of either a monthly or annual donation. I was also fortunate as a result of this job to attend the party's staff away day, which focused on how the party can become Westminster fit. This experience (which as a fixed term contract now nears to an end) has helped me to fully immerse myself in the party, to commit myself to the future success of the party and improve the member experience and engagement. I have gained invaluable knowledge and I am well informed of the workings of the party. This alongside my current undergraduate studies allow me to have both the practical experience and theoretical understanding for this role within the party. I am about to enter my third year of university studying Politics and International Relations so have a clear passion for politics. Although my political drive may be clear, my chosen dissertation topic on ecofeminism proves that I am committed to not only climate action but also providing a fairer society for all, especially all womxn. I am on track for a First Class Honours degree so have displayed not only my commitment to a task, but attention to detail and ability to deliver results. Within my university course I am also Course Representative, this responsibility has ensured I consult my fellow students, provide constructive feedback and present in a professional manner. All these experiences and factors combined demonstrate my commitment to the Green Party and exemplify how I would value this role, ensuring I deliver results for Young Green Womxn

My name is Emily Main, and I am hoping to become a Non-Portfolio Officer for the Young Green Womxn committee! I am a 23-year-old History student who specialises in gender studies in early modern England. Since 2019 I have worked alongside the Derbyshire Green Party to deliver support and a lot of leaflets for the Target to Win campaign! As well as standing as the first Green Party candidate for Sutton in the May election. I have also worked as a PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) campus rep which involved hosting stalls on campus to discuss sustainability and environmental issues. As a passionate activist and feminist, I would love to work within a team of other young womxn to deliver support and engage fellow party members. For me, womxn’s issues are at the forefront of my concerns, and to work in a team of people who share the same ethos would be incredibly exciting. Prioritising these issues, coupled with party ideologies and environmental agendas will create positive and equal change in our communities.

The Young Greens have the foundations to be a disruptive and creative force in UK Politics. We have a platform to influence the Green Party and the left more broadly.

To realise this potential, my priorities as treasurer would be twofold:

1. To make best use of existing funding.
I want to:

• Invest in the priorities of the membership – when it comes to creating budgets and spending plans. We are a democratic organisation.

• Prioritise accessibility – I do not believe that personal financial circumstances should limit the ability of Young Greens to fully participate in our programmes and projects.

• Ensure our strategy is lived out in our spending – I will create a carefully considered budget that reflects our aims, priorities and strategy.

• Keep a steady hand on the purse strings – I will be a critical friend to the executive on financial matters, and will constructively challenge when there is a better way for our resources to be utilised.

• Be accountable to you – Through quarterly reports and Q&A sessions.

2. To grow our funding and assure its sustainability.
I want to:

• Put together a clear fundraising proposition – This would be used in fundraising appeals and phone rounds to finance our programmes.

• Experiment with funding messages and means – Helping me to find out how we can attract greater donations from our membership, in a way that works for you.

• Create a way for Young Green Alumni to give back – after they leave the Young Greens. Usually older people have more money, and like to fund what got them where they are.

• Prioritise regular funding – Security in our income will allow us to plan bigger and better campaigns, events, and promotion; further into the future.

• Attract funding from a diversity of people – So that if unexpected things happen which mean that many people (or the party!) can no longer afford to contribute, we still have some income.

These priorities are achievable, if you elect me as your treasurer.

I am a recent graduate of Oxford University with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics; taking most of my modules in Economics.

I have,
Helped organisations make best use of their existing funding

• Managed the budget of my local youth council – I served on the executive committee of Surrey Youth Collective (now Surrey Youth Cabinet) which managed a budget of approx £35,000 (including staffing costs) to achieve our campaigning objectives and to support young people having a voice in council decisions that mattered to them.

• Been a trustee of a small charity (local community centre). I helped develop our long-term strategy and direct the spending of £100,000/yr income, understanding service users needs and wants, and adapting to changes in the local community.

• Sat on public sector grant giving and contract tendering panels – I voted on who should get contracts and grants, and invested thousands of pounds of Council and NHS money where I thought it had the greatest positive impact for communities.

Grown funding and assured its sustainability

• Lobbied organisations for funding youth politics – I put together a business case and securing over £45,000 from my County Council and community grants for a youth council and voter registration drive.

• Worked as a telephone fundraiser for my Oxford college – As part of a successful £1 million funding drive, I put together a fundraising proposition and asked ex-students to contribute regularly to fund student welfare and support, and other college projects.

• Co-authored a bid securing a £1.5 millon grant– For a public health research project I undertook with London South Bank University.

As a current campaigner and Door-knocking co-ordinator for the Gwent Green Party I would love to be more involved with the young greens, my goal and aim as a Green Party member has been to get more young people involved within the party and outside. As part of the Campaign Team for Newport in South Wales I recently helped Amelia (Deputy leader of the Green Party) at the senydd Elections and was also at the Count. I really want to expand my roles within the party.

Having joined the Green Party in August 2019, I have consecutively stood in the 2019 UK General Election, a town council by-election where I came 56 votes short of beating labour and then stood in the 2021 Senedd campaign as not only GP candidate for Neath but had the honor to be internally elected at lead list candidate for South Wales West Region. I am also my local party contact and take great joy in canvassing, phone banking and meeting and introducing new members.

I'm applying for the role as E.1.9 as I have constantly and openly campaigned as a proud member of the LQBTGI+ and a proud Nerodivent ( dyslexic/dyspraxic. I also grew up in a family of care givers to people from pretty much every walk of life and hope that I could bring real passion and dedication to the role. I like to hope that my people skills and enthusiasm would also be vital in organising and activation for the new liberations groups

Coming off the back of record breaking results at the local elections, the Green Party is undergoing a huge resurgence in popularity with young people. As Young Greens, it’s up to us to take advantage of this. Personally, we know some of our most inspiring interactions in the Green Party have been through meeting other passionate Young Greens in person, so after more than a year of being restricted to online activities, offline events when it is safe to hold them will be a key tool in mobilising as many people as we can.

It is this belief in the importance of events as a means of developing a thriving Young Greens community that underpins our motivation to run for Events Officer together, a role which we believe we have the necessary experience to deliver in.

Our experience

Since 2018 we’ve been co-chairs of Manchester Young Greens. Starting out as just the two of us, we have overseen Manchester Young Green membership and engagement grow exponentially to become a dynamic, active and sustainable group.

Delivering effective and engaging events has been crucial to our growth, and we believe our skills and experience developed through executing these events can be translated to larger, national scale events. We have organised successful talks, workshops and socials both online and offline, such as in October 2019 our in-person event with Amelia Womack at the University of Manchester which attracted more than 50 attendees, and our October 2020 online event with Sian Berry which similarly received extensive positive feedback.

We have been active members of the Young Greens nationally for a similar length of time to our Manchester involvement and have seen what great events can look like, between us having attended several online and offline conventions as well as Action Days and 30u30 training events.

We’ve also previously been involved with the North West Young Greens and sit on our local Manchester Green Party as Young Greens Officers.

Our priorities

• We’ve seen first-hand the disparity in Young Greens groups in the North West versus London and the South East, so want to work closely with existing and new contacts in regional groups to create events that are accessible and local to Young Greens who haven’t had that the chance to attend them before

• We will work closely with newly elected Liberation Officers to ensure accessibility is at the heart of every event we organise, from venue and location choice, to materials and cost.

• Having both been heavily involved in the campaign to win Manchester’s first Green councillor since 2008 we understand the work it takes to win elections, and would therefore collaborate closely with the Elections Officer to ensure our Action Days are the biggest and most effective they can be

• We have both been able to attend some of the excellent 30u30 training events in-person and online this year, so we would work with the Activist Training and Political Education officer to ensure as many people as possible get to experience the training events ran online this year in person to build the next generation of Young Green leadership

• Finally, after more than a year of online events, we want to make the 2022 Convention the biggest ever, with a record number of attendees and huge range of inspiring talks and workshops.

With the Labour leadership’s weak version of centrism and compromise there has never been a better time for the Young Greens to seize the chance to mobilise and engage young people across the country with our radical, socialist vision for the future. Bold, well-organised and inspiring events will be a crucial part of ensuring the growth we can have over this coming year, and with our experience we believe we are the best placed people to ensure that success.

As we move forwards out of the Coronavirus, we need to ensure that the Young Greens can move from strength to strength with bold, progressive leadership.

Over the past two years, I've been fortunate enough to be part of this movement as Co-Chair and then Chair of this Committee, ensuring that we have strong grassroots, member-led democratic accountability structures. I've been sure to hold our elected representatives to account at every stage, making sure that the Constitution and Standing Orders are followed and respected at all levels.

Over the next year, I would love to work with the rest of the Democracy and Accountability Committee to strengthen our structures, whilst working with our fantastic Liberation Groups and Executive Committee to build momentum for internal democracy and our grassroots movement!

I've attended the vast majority of Executive Committee meetings this year, to ensure strong connections between the committees, and have facilitated the running of the December Emergency General Meeting, and quarterly accountability and report sessions. Plus, I've worked hard with the rest of DAC to facilitate the running of this really exciting Convention and Annual General Meeting 2021!

With my substantial previous experience on the Committee, I think I'm really well placed to build the power of this movement through our grassroots structures, ensuring all members are supported to have their say.

If elected, I can't wait to get going in the next term!

Isaac

This year has seen students pushed back into high-cost campus accommodation, left with minimal financial support from the government and a lack of wellbeing support. This resolution identifies some key areas for the Young Greens to campaign on to deliver justice for students.

I have loved being your international officer this last year and am asking to represent you again this year to build on the connections and momentum I have created.

I have focused on strengthening our relationship with the Federation of the Young European Greens and Global Young Greens in the following ways:

• I have attended 2 General Assemblies for FYEG, representing our views there and strengthening connections with fellow European Young Greens

• I have facilitated the following MO to MO trainings: E.g. Albanian Young Greens and Serbian Young Greens

• Supported a mentor scheme for the East Africa Academy by providing mentors for the Kenyan Young Greens

• Organised events with Natalie Bennett and Molly Scott Cato on the topics of Hong Kong Human Rights and Sustainable Agriculture

• Provided support for candidates for Global Young Greens and FYEG EC

I would love to build on the connections I have made this year if you choose me as your next International Officer. My focus will be on:

• Creating an International Working group straight away to increase capacity to put on more events and have a wider range of opportunities

• Focus on build up to COP26 including conducting events with our Mother Party

• Increase joint events with other Young Greens across the world, including networking events and knowledge sharing events

• Learn from other country’s organisations on diversity, campaigning and effective comms

• Increase access to global opportunities for our members: e.g. writing for Ecosprinter (FYEG’s online magazine), internships etc

I am extremely keen to take on the role of Elections Officer for the Young Greens Executive Committee so that I can continue with the work that I have been doing for the last year, both on the Green Students Committee and as coordinator for Brighton & Hove Young Green's.

Its super exciting for me to see the Young Greens having the power to influence elections all over the country and I see this role as a way that I can continue to contribute towards the organisation and mobilisation of this energy and desire among young people at the moment to get involved in green politics. If I can help in any way to harness and organise that energy then I’d love to offer my services.

Having joined only the party at the beginning of 2019, I jumped in at the deep end and become active in as many ways as possible. From canvasing in my first few weeks to representing the party at Sussex University’s Student Hustings during the 2019 general election. Outside of the party, I am close to completing my master’s and currently I am writing my dissertation on how we can recognise the environment as a subject of international law. I have also been working as a paralegal alongside my studies, which hopefully goes some way to demonstrating my level of organisation, management and communication ability.

On the Green Students Committee, I have gained a valuable insight into the running of the Young Greens Exec which would enable me to hit the ground running and continue the great work of the previous Exec should I be elected, as well as having a good relationship with some who may continue into next year. While on the GSC I have been involved reigniting a part of the Young Greens that had sadly become a bit inactive and have laid the foundations for green students to come together and share resources and ideas, as well as support each other. We have also spent a great deal of effort raising awareness within the party of issues that matter specifically to students through our social media presence. All work which I look forward to seeing develop with the next GSC.

As already mentioned, I have also been running Brighton & Hove Young Greens for over a year, organising our AGM, running a series of online events including one with Caroline Lucas, helping with the organisation of a recent members meeting with NUS president Larissa Kennedy, assisting the rent strikers with bringing a deputation to the local council and bringing a successful motion on behalf of our group to the B&H members meeting last July which reaffirmed the local party’s commitment to putting young people first and providing them with a platform to make their voices heard. In this time I have also been our representative on the B&H Exec and chaired a B&H members meeting in which we hosted the Sussex Rent Strikers. I also assisted in campaign strategy meetings for the recent by-elections in Brighton & Hove and helped on the ground in Oxford to assist two young greens in getting elected.

I hope that this experience, as well as the desire that I have to help get more young greens elected demonstrates why I would be a great choice for Elections Officer, and I very much look forward to the opportunity. Thank you for taking the time to read my statement.

Young people are looking for a credible option to represent the social and environmental issues that matter. As Press Officer, I would make it my priority to ensure the Young Greens consistently present ourselves as the mobilised and engaging home for Green politics. Appealing to left-wing youth and activists has been key to our successes, yet it is of equal importance to me that we work to reach the people who are distanced from Green politics, and capture their attention with our work and our values. We can achieve this through a proactive approach to media opportunities and a cohesive messaging strategy across all platforms, and I believe I have the dedication and experience to lead on this. I contributed to the Bristol Youth Strike for Climate movement as press officer, gaining experience and contacts in local and national media and working to showcase the strength of youth activism whilst ensuring our key messages remained clear. I am genuinely excited by the opportunity to work with the Executive Committee to raise the profile of Young Green voices and earn a wider audience for our work. Reach out to me on social media if you have any questions or want to talk more!

The Young Greens support campaigns to divest funds away from police forces, border enforcement agencies, and other carceral institutions. Noting that police forces and other carceral state institutions are violent by design, and that opposition to social violence is a defining principle of Green politics, we call on our wider movement to support campaigns to oppose state violence and dismantle the institutions responsible.

I have been involved with the Green Party since the 2019 General Election, when I joined the Bristol campaign. I now serve as co-Chair of the Bristol Young Greens – a role I hope to be re-elected to – and on the managing committees of the Bristol Green Party. I even stood as a candidate in the recent elections, where Bristol achieved the largest Greencouncillor group ever. I have also been part of the effort to establish the South-West Young Greens and look forward to continuing this work in the future. At university, reading Geographical Sciences gave me an in-depth knowledge of the scale of the climate emergency and the essentiality of green policies, and I was responsible for managing events and five-figure budgets at a student society level. I believe this is all very relevant experience for the role of Young Greens Co-Chair.

If elected, my primary aim will be maintaining and creating more local youth activist groups by engaging with students and young people across the country – I know first-hand the impact of organised young Greens on a campaign. By supporting local Young Green societies, we can help young people everywhere make their voices count and their votes matter.

I’m applying for the Young Greens’ International Officer because I believe I have the knowledge, experience and passion to be successful in this role.

I’ve built a strong knowledge of global issues through working and volunteering with international charities such as UNICEF, Opportunity International and African Initiatives, mainly focussing on gender issues.

Having recently graduated from SOAS in Environment, Politics and Development, I’ve been able to combine my experience, passion for tackling inequality and concern for the future of our planet. My dissertation considered what an intersectional, international feminist degrowth might look like.

Over the last 6 months I have had the opportunity to co-chair the London Young Greens, working alongside Sian’s mayoral team to develop her youth policies. In this role, I was able to lead a campaign on the Tigray Crisis, creating a partnership with the Tigray Youth Network, hosting an event with Natalie Bennett and representing the Green Party during their peaceful protest at Speakers’ Corner. I hope to continue raising awareness of the crisis as International Officer alongside the important campaign work we must do in the build up to COP-26 to ensure the UK supports low and middle income countries to tackle the climate crisis.

I always look to bring energy and passion to my work and hope to do so in this role.