Contents 3. Welcome to Inverness 18. Guest speakers 4-5. Welcome to conference 19. Sunday timetable Inverness 6-8. How conference works 20. Sunday events

9. Child protection 21. Venue tap

10-13, 16-17. Saturday events 22-25. Exhibitors

14-15. Saturday timetable 26. Get involved

The League Against Cruel Sports is proud to sponsor the Scottish Green Party Autumn Conference Ceilidh. The League is Scotland’s We’d like to wish foremost organisation everyone at the campaigning for an end to Scottish Green Party animals suffering in the name of a great conference. ‘sport’ and is currently working with Alison Johnstone MSP to bring forward a bill to end If you have any questions about our work, please fox hunting in Scotland. speak to us at our stand or at the ceilidh. Welcome to Inverness

The ’ Highlands and Islands branch covers an area twice the size of Belgium, which creates issues in bringing people together, so we are delighted to welcome you to the biggest gathering of Greens ever in the Highlands. We have made significant advances locally over the past few years. Pippa Hadley has fought a sometimes lonely battle as the first Green on Highland Council, but single-handedly dragged the council to declare a climate emergency. In Holyrood, ’s Equal Protection Bill passed last week with plaudits and support from across the spectrum. Meanwhile, Steve Sankey targeted his ward to become the only Green on Orkney Islands Council, making the Greens the biggest political party on the council (all other councillors are independents). He has been working on fair ferry funding and ownership, and divestment of council funds. More recently Debra Nicolson led a small but spirited band of activists to fight the Shetland by-election – creating a Green campaigning force which is now contesting council by-election seats for the first time ever. We hope you will enjoy your visit here. With the focus on the need for a Green New Deal to protect both our land and its people, you will also be introduced to the the best Holyrood candidates in Scotland, chosen by you, the membership, as well as discussing the most forward- thinking ideas in Scotland. We hope conference stimulates and inspires you. Highlands & Islands Branch

3 Welcome to our 2019 Autumn Conference!

Welcome to Inverness, and the transform Scotland’s economy, Scottish Green Party’s annual tackle the climate emergency, Conference. We hope you will and build a just, sustainable and have a great weekend, meeting prosperous Scotland. new friends and helping to It is hard to be positive about shape the direction of our party politics with the inaction on at this vital time. climate, the crisis of Brexit This time last year climate and the cruelty of the UK scientists issued their stark Government, but we have been warning: we have only a hugely inspired by the actions decade left to do everything of the climate strikers and it we can to avoid climate is a delight to welcome Holly breakdown. In Holyrood, and Gillibrand back to conference in council chambers across as our guest. Scotland, the Scottish Greens Scotland, and the UK, need have acted with the bold to lead by example on tackling leadership needed, getting the climate emergency, we climate emergencies declared have an opportunity to set an and piling the pressure on for example to the world ahead of fundamental change. The focus the COP26 summit coming to of Conference is the next stage Glasgow next year. A Scottish of our response: a Scottish GND is a key part of that Green New Deal (GND) to leadership.

4 We have never had so many assault in law as adults, passed elected Greens in Scotland, in the and their impact is being felt – another great example of throughout the country. Greens leading the change. Our 19 councillors and six MSPs We are delighted to welcome have been leading the change so many guests and exhibitors on social justice, independence, to the Conference this year. fighting Brexit, environmental Please make sure you take the protection, transport, social time to visit the many NGOs, care, finance, equal protection, organisations and unions that education, land reform … the are exhibiting this weekend. list goes on. But we need more, Have a chat, develop new ideas, and our campaign begins now. and find out what’s going on This Conference we will unveil and how you can get involved. our candidates for the Holyrood Let’s make this a weekend to 2021 elections, and look towards enjoy, to celebrate our impact the council elections in 2022. and to renew our commitment As you know, our colleague to change politics and society John Finnie MSP is standing for the better. We look forward down in 2021 and as we come to meeting you all during together this weekend in his conference home city, we’d like to thank him for the huge amount of Lorna Slater work he has done. Just last and Patrick Harvie, week his Bill, to give children Scottish Greens Co‑Leaders the same protection from

5 HOW Emergency Motions are intended to allow conference to CONFERENCE debate issues that have arisen WORKS since then, and should be sent to [email protected]. The Party’s Constitution and org.uk seven days before the Policy Reference Document start of conference, signed by (PRD) have been voted in, and two members. amended, by a succession of An Emergency Motion relating Party conferences on the basis to events that have arisen of one member, one vote. The since then can be submitted Standing Orders Committee to SOC any time up until noon (SOC) is responsible for ensuring on the first day of conference conference rules are upheld, (also signed by two members). and for guaranteeing its smooth Emergency Motions will be and democratic running. rejected if they could have been If you have an issue relating submitted in time for the first to conference procedures, agenda, or are not concise and please raise it with a member focused. of SOC. SOC reports directly to conference, and its annual OFFICE BEARER REPORTS report – given during the There is a folder containing AGM – must be approved by reference copies of office- conference. SOC has a table in bearers’ reports and accounts front of the stage throughout at the registration desk. Digital conference should you have copies are also available. any queries. LANYARDS / VOTING CARDS MOTIONS Please keep close watch over Motions have to be submitted your voting cards. Please also 11 weeks before conference, wear your lanyard at all times amendments five weeks before. and remember to hand them The intention is that branches back at the end of conference. can debate them and, if wished, agree proxy votes or branch amendments.

6 DEBATES AND VOTING proposed amendment from the Motions are debated and voted floor, as this has not proved to on as follows: be an effective way of deciding • There is a short debate on the party policy. motion itself. • Each amendment is then As a member you may vote at debated and voted on in Yes conference providing that you turn. You have the choice have the red, green and white of voting for, against or voting cards you were given at abstain. registration. Please don’t lose • The final stage is a vote them! They are colour-coded, on the full motion, like traffic lights. as amended (or not amended), and again the Any member who can’t attend choice is between for, Conference may delegate against or abstain. another member to vote on their behalf. This is called a proxy At any point in the debate a No vote. No member may have member may ask (from the more than eight proxy votes. floor) to vote on referring a motion back to the relevant SPEAKING committee. That member Any member may speak during would have to explain a debate. If you think in advance their reasons and another that you’d like to speak, please member would have to fill in a speaking slip and hand it second that proposal. The in to the SOC table as soon as chair may refuse that proposal possible, giving a note of any or may put it to a vote, at expertise or special interest their discretion. Abstain you have in the topic. This will allow the chair Amendments will not be to ensure an equal number of accepted from the floor if speeches for and against, and more than ten members to give priority to those with object, or if the chair background knowledge of the refuses to allow them. subject, rather than just those It is unusual for all other who are better at catching the members to agree to hear a chair’s eye.

7 If you wish to respond to a VENUE ACCESSIBILITY point made during the debate, Please ask at registration if you raise your hand and you will be have any questions or have any called if there’s time. Please do special requirements regarding not speak unless called upon accessibility. and you have the microphone. Because of the size of the FIRST TIME AT CONFERENCE? auditorium and the number of There is a special session for people attending, there will be people new to Conference, very little time for speakers who which will be held at 9.30am in have not filled in a request- the Printer’s Bar Drop-In Zone. to-speak slip. You may ask a short question of the motion FURTHER INFORMATION proposer – but this must be For any further information just that – a short question. The about conference, please ask at chair is there to ensure fair and the registration desk. smooth running of the session – please respect their authority.

FRINGES AND EXHIBITIONS Conference is not just the main sessions organised by the SGP. It is also the fringe meetings and stalls organised by outside groups, where new ideas flourish and where party members listen to the concerns of campaigning and representative groups. Please visit the stalls and take part in the sessions. They are as much a part of conference as the main sessions.

8 CHILD PROTECTION AT What do I need to do? CONFERENCE If a child tells you they are at actual or potential risk: SGP considers all persons under • Take them seriously; the age of 18 children for the • Don’t ask unnecessary purposes of this policy. questions; • Don’t promise to keep the As an organisation that has information confidential; members as young as 12, we • Make a note using the child’s have a duty to inform and words and make sure you support all our members in date the note; upholding our child protection • Contact your branch policy. The following will help convenor, the Child Rights you to know what to look for Volunteer or local social and what to do if you have any work department; concerns during conference. • Don’t contact the child’s parents/guardian; What constitutes a risk? • Don’t attempt to investigate • Witnessing an incident the situation; involving a child that causes • If you are concerned about you concern; the immediate safety of a • A child tells you they are child, contact the police. being abused or neglected or are at risk of being abused If you suspect an adult or or neglected; child is posing a risk to child • Someone tells you that a protection. child is at risk of abuse or neglect, even if the child has Contact your branch convenor no connection to the SGP. or the Child Rights Volunteer; If you are concerned about the immediate safety of a child, contact the police.

9 Fringe events & Scottish Payments workshops Policy Workshop La Scala Cinema

Saturday Should the financial services industry be profiting from the payment of taxes and fines? 9.00am-10.00am Should benefits claimants be Marine Policy forced to have a bank account Policy Workshop to receive Universal Credit (or Jim Love Studio Universal Basic Income)? The Scottish Payments motion being debated at conference Our current marine policy is offers publicly owned dated, and closely tied to the alternatives to the financial Common Fisheries Policy. Brexit services industry. This is your will mean an end to EU fisheries chance to hear about the funding and new challenges for proposals in detail and ask any fishing communities. questions. This could be an opportunity to think differently about how we fund and manage fishing Young Greens and other marine activities. Maclean Room Our policy needs to better set out our principles, reflect increasing consumer concerns A chance to meet other Young about food production and Greens and have a relaxed consider changes to marine taster of our November event management. This is an Landlords Need Not Apply: opportunity to hear what we are Tackling Scotland’s Housing proposing in our new marine Crisis. This will be a weekend- environment policy, review long attempt to tackle the the text, and ask questions housing crisis with activists about what is included, before from across Scotland, within conference votes on adoption or and outwith the Greens. amendments. 10 9.30am-10.15am Rural Greens Provost Smith Chapel Welcome to Conference Printer’s Bar Drop-in Zone A chance for members of the Rural Greens to meet. New to Conference? Head up (to the 2nd floor) to get the lowdown on what’s happening Divestment from Fossil at Conference from Mags Hall Fuels & Armaments and Chris Ballance, who will Policy Workshop explain how Conference works Studio 2 and help to ensure you get the most out of it. This session aims to improve participants’ understanding 1.30pm-2.30pm of issues around divestment from fossil fuel and armaments. The Case for Reforming As well as an explanation of Scotland’s Grouse Moors divestment in general, the REVIVE session will present the motion Jim Love Studio in full will be followed by a Q&A session and discussion to clarify any controversial or The time has come to radically unclear aspects of it. reform Scotland’s grouse moors. Between 12-18% of Scotland is managed for grouse Internal Communications shooting at the expense of our Working Group people, our wildlife and the Policy Workshop environment. This session will Bishops Palace Break Room explore how the Revive campaign provides an opportunity to end the circle of A session on storing of data destruction of intensive grouse and sharing of media. moor management and to unlock our land’s potential. Chair: Alison Johnstone, MSP

11 1.30pm-2.30pm continued

How can we speed up the Transport and Poverty: energy transition? Making the Connection SMART ENERGY GB POVERTY ALLIANCE La Scala Cinema Playhouse Cinema

Transport plays a vital role in Scotland can be proud of its the lives of people living in the progress on renewables, but grip of poverty in Scotland. there is still a long way to go Yet all too often, our transport on heat and transport, and the system proves unaffordable and whole energy system needs to inaccessible. This discussion be smarter and greener. will reflect on the links between Join Smart Energy GB with a transport and poverty, and panel including Community identify how we can build a Energy Scotland and Stop transport system that works for Climate Chaos Scotland to everyone. discuss how we can accelerate the shift to net-zero. Chair: Peter Kelly (Director, Chair: Ben Miller, Smart Energy Poverty Alliance) GB, Policy and Public Affairs Panelists: John Finnie (MSP Manager for Highlands and Islands), A BUFFET LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED. Alex Quayle (Senior Policy Officer, Sustrans), Deborah Hay (Scotland Policy Officer, Joseph Rowntree Foundation), Sue Lyons (Development Worker, HUG Action for Mental Health)

12 Shape the Future: Mid-Scotland & Fife Branch Achieving Diversity in Meeting Political Participation Maclean Room Maclean Room An informal meeting for all Whilst it is widely accepted members from Fife, Perth that increased diversity results and Kinross, and Stirling and in better decision-making, Clackmannanshire branches inequalities in democratic to meet the newly selected spaces persist. Representatives regional candidates and start from Engender, Inclusion preparing the campaign for Scotland and the Equality Holyrood 2021. Network highlight some of their work, whilst Green Women’s Network AGM Councillor Melanie Main shares her experiences in and Planning elected office and invites you Provost Smith Chapel to participate in a discussion/ idea-sharing session on how All women and non-binary we dismantle the barriers to SGP members are welcome. making political participation Agenda items are to approve a truly representative. new constitution and standing Chair: Melanie Main, Councillor orders for the WN. Elect WN for Morningside, Edinburgh co-cos and other posts. Plan for Sunday’s AGM and discuss 4.30pm-5.30pm WN budget for 2020. Highlands and Islands Branch Meeting Jim Love Studio

A chance for members of the Highlands and Islands Branch to meet.

13 continues on page 16 Is this your first conference? If so, please come to the Printer’s Bar Drop-in Zone Saturday Timetable (2nd Floor) for a special welcome session from 9.30am-10:15am on Saturday

Provost Bishops Empire Jim Love La Scala Playhouse Maclean Smith Studio 2 Palace Theatre Studio Cinema Cinema Room Chapel Break Room 8.30am onwards Registration in front foyer 9.00am-10.00am Policy: Policy: International Young Greens Rural Greens Policy: Internal Marine Policy Scottish Committee Divestment Comms Payments from Fossil Working Fuels & Group Armaments 10.00am-10.30am Coffee in Exhibition Area 10.30am-12.30pm Opening plenary

12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch

1.30pm-2.30pm Revive: Smart Energy Poverty Shape the External fringes The Case for GB: How can Alliance: Future: Reforming we speed up Transport Achieving Scotland’s the energy and Poverty: Diversity Grouse Moors transition? Making the in Political Connection Participation 2.30pm-3.00pm Coffee in Exhibition Area 3.00pm-4.30pm Scottish Green New Deal Plenary 4.30pm-5.30pm Highlands and Mid-Scotland Women’s Policy: Association Islands Branch & Fife Branch Network Rewilding of Scottish Meeting Meeting AGM/ Green Planning Councillors AGM 5.30pm-close Emergency Motions and Constitutional Motions

7.30pm-late Big Green Ceilidh and Young Greens’ Quiz Night at Old High Church Hall, Academy Street (see p17 for map)

14 Is this your first conference? If so, please come to the Printer’s Bar Drop-in Zone Saturday Timetable (2nd Floor) for a special welcome session from 9.30am-10:15am on Saturday

Provost Bishops Empire Jim Love La Scala Playhouse Maclean Smith Studio 2 Palace Theatre Studio Cinema Cinema Room Chapel Break Room 8.30am onwards Registration in front foyer 9.00am-10.00am Policy: Policy: International Young Greens Rural Greens Policy: Internal Marine Policy Scottish Committee Divestment Comms Payments from Fossil Working Fuels & Group Armaments 10.00am-10.30am Coffee in Exhibition Area 10.30am-12.30pm Opening plenary

12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch

1.30pm-2.30pm Revive: Smart Energy Poverty Shape the External fringes The Case for GB: How can Alliance: Future: Reforming we speed up Transport Achieving Scotland’s the energy and Poverty: Diversity Grouse Moors transition? Making the in Political Connection Participation 2.30pm-3.00pm Coffee in Exhibition Area 3.00pm-4.30pm Scottish Green New Deal Plenary 4.30pm-5.30pm Highlands and Mid-Scotland Women’s Policy: Association Islands Branch & Fife Branch Network Rewilding of Scottish Meeting Meeting AGM/ Green Planning Councillors AGM 5.30pm-close Emergency Motions and Constitutional Motions

7.30pm-late Big Green Ceilidh and Young Greens’ Quiz Night at Old High Church Hall, Academy Street (see p17 for map)

15 4.30pm-5.30pm continued

Rewilding Association of Scottish Policy Workshop Green Councillors AGM Studio 2 Bishops Palace Break Room

This session will focus on A review of the achievements the Rewilding Scotland of Green Councillors, as well as policy motion.The gradual a discussion of the challenges extermination of Scotland’s and opportunities ahead biodiversity over the centuries has broken our natural ecosystem. Now, with climate change and mass extinctions an ever-growing threat, it is vital to take advantage of our unique opportunities to protect and expand vital habitats. This policy motion sets out the actions we will take with the aim of restoring Scotland’s once rich biodiversity and natural environment. Not only as a buffer against disaster on the horizon, but also as a good in and of itself.

16 7.30pm-late SGP Highlands & Islands branch presents its BIG GREEN CEILIDH and Young Greens’ Quiz Featuring the Astar Youth Ceilidh Band. Saturday 12th October, 7.30pm, Old High Church Hall, Academy Street, Inverness. Tickets £10, available from registration desk. Food is included in the ticket price.

Old High Church Hall

Eden Court

17 Sanna Vesikansa Helsinki Deputy Mayor for Social Services and Health Care Sanna Vesikansa from the Finnish Greens (Vihreä liitto) is The Helsinki Deputy Mayor for Social Services and Health Care. She has been a member of the city council for ten years and previously worked for Save the Children, the National Institute for Health and Welfare and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Ethiopia Office. Guest Speakers

Katherine Trebeck Knowledge and Policy Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Katherine is Knowledge and Policy Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, having previously worked for Oxfam GB in various roles. Katherine, with Lorenzo Fioramonti, instigated the Wellbeing Economy Governments (an alternative to the G7); developed Oxfam’s Humankind Index; and led Oxfam’s work on a “human economy”. She was Rapporteur for Club de Madrid’s Working Group on Shared Societies and Sustainability Her book The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown Up Economy was published earlier this year.

18 Sunday Timetable

Bishops Empire Jim Love La Scala Playhouse Maclean Smith Palace Studio 2 Theatre Studio cinema cinema room Chapel Break Room 8.30am Venue opens 9.0am-10.00am AGM

10.00am-11.00am Consitutional, Conference and Policy Motions

11.00am-11.30am Coffee in Exhibition area 11.30am-12.30pm Nourish Women’s Rainbow Disabled Welfare Scotland Network Greens Greens and – Good Holyrood Conduct Food Candidate Training Nation Bill Induction and Social 12.30pm-1.30am Lunch

1.30pm-3.45pm Conference and Policy Motions

3.45pm-4.30pm Policy Motions

4.30pm-5.00pm Closing Plenary session to start preparing WN Sunday Holyrood list candidates and their campaign teams for the 11.30am-Noon next 18 months and then a “speed dating” social event to Good Food Nation Bill: help members of the WN get From Field to Plate to know one another. - Setting the course Rainbow Greens towards a fair, healthy and Provost Smith Chapel sustainable food systeml Nourish Scotland Come along to find out about Playhouse Cinema the work of the Highland LGBT Forum in organising inclusive Food, how we grow it to how events and campaigning for we consume it is at the heart the fair treatment of LGBT of some of Scotland’s biggest people in the Highlands. All challenges, from inequality to welcome. ill health to climate change. The Good Food Nation Bill Disabled Greens will enable a coherent and Studio 2 connected food policy, First Floor facilitating a just transition to A chance for members of the a fair, healthy and sustainable Disbaled Greens to meet. future for Scotland’s food system. Welfare and Conduct Training Women’s Network Bishops Palace Break Room Holyrood Candidate Induction and Social Maclean Room Jeroen van Leeuwen welcomes you to a friendly gathering of Welfare and Conduct All women and non-binary SGP Officers, with chat and tips on members are welcome. There communication & other issues will be a 20-minute induction essential for branch welfare.

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21 UNISON Scotland Inclusion UNISON is the Scotland public services We are a union, the largest trade union registered charity governed by in Scotland. We represent a board made up of a majority members across local of disabled people. Our mission government, health, community is to achieve positive changes and voluntary sector, utilities, the to policy and practice, so that emergency services, housing, we disabled people are fully higher and further education included throughout all Scottish and other areas like Skills society as equal citizens. We Development Scotland, children do this by influencing decision- reporters and regulation of makers, supporting disabled care. It gives us an unparalleled people to be decision-makers overview of public services and themselves, and developing those who deliver them. capacity, awareness and www.unison-scotland.org engagement. inclusionscotland.org

Scottish Environment Scottish CND LINK The Scottish Campaign Scottish for Nuclear Disarmament Environment works for the abolition of a LINK is the nuclear weapons in Britain forum for as a step toward the global Scotland’s elimination of these weapons voluntary environment of mass destruction. This is organisations, with over 35 the 60th anniversary of the the member bodies representing Scottish ‘Council’ for Nuclear a range of environmental Disarmament. We want to use interests with the common the occasion to showcase and goal of contributing to a more celebrate our history, and to environmentally sustainable look to our future. society. www.banthebomb.org www.scotlink.org Sustrans Scotland Sustrans Scotland Smart Energy GB provides advice, support and funding that makes it easier Smart Energy GB is the voice for people to walk and cycle of the smart meter rollout. for everyday journeys. We It’s our task to help everyone successfully influence policy in Great Britain development to ensure that understand more people have the choice smart meters, to walk, cycle or take public the national transport for more of their rollout and everyday journeys. We also how to use their promote and develop the new meters to get gas and National Cycle Network in electricity under control. Scotland. smartenergyGB.org sustrans.org.uk

The Educational The Poverty Alliance Institute Of The Poverty Alliance’s vision is Scotland of a sustainable Scotland based The Educational on social and economic justice, Institute of Scotland (EIS) is with dignity for all, where Scotland’s largest teaching poverty and inequalities are not trade union, with around 55,000 tolerated and are challenged. members employed in nursery, We now act as the national anti- primary, special, secondary, poverty network in Scotland, further and higher education. working with voluntary The EIS represents over 80% organisations, policy makers of all teachers and lecturers and politicians at Scottish, UK in Scotland, campaigning to and European levels. protect and improve their www.povertyalliance.org pay and conditions of service, as well as promoting “sound learning” across all sectors. www.eis.org.uk Revive BUSINESS Revive is the coalition for grouse FOR moor reform, bringing together SCOTLAND concerned organisations Business for Scotland is a to try to tackle issues such campaigning business network as land reform, raptor and think-tank. We are persecution, public health passionate about unlocking threats and environmental Scotland’s potential by damage associated with the promoting policies to create maintenance and operation sustainable business and of grouse moors in Scotland, economic growth. We support which have dominated the Scottish independence to deliver landscape for 150 years. our goals, setting Scotland www.eis.org.uk on a more inclusive, greener, confident, more equal and economically successful path. www.businessforscotland.com

Nourish Scotland We believe tasty, nutritious food Equality Network and should be accessible to all, be Scottish Trans Alliance sustainable, and produced, The Equality Network is a processed, sold and served in national lesbian, gay, bisexual a way that values and respects transgender and intersex workers. We campaign for (LGBTI) equality and human solutions that work across rights charity for Scotland. the board: we take a systems Scottish Trans is the Equality approach toward food and Network project to improve health, poverty, fairness, gender identity and gender workers’ rights, economy, reassignment equality, rights environment, climate change, and inclusion in Scotland. land use, and waste. www.equality-network.org www.nourishscotland.org www.scottishtrans.org InverYES and Common Weal Common Weal is a campaigning and advocacy NFU Scotland organisation, a news service, NFU Scotland represents a network of local groups 8,500 farmers, crofters, and more. We are also a growers and agricultural philosophy of a different kind organisations all over of Scotland and how we can Scotland. As Scotland’s largest achieve it. Common Weal is in agricultural organisation, we the final stages of completing work with policy-makers in a large scale, fully costed Holyrood, Westminster and plan to radically transform Brussels to represent our our economy and tackle the members. multiple crises we are facing. www.nfus.org.uk commonweal.scot

Transition Highland Cycle Campaign Black Isle The Highland Cycle Campaign Transition is a member-led voluntary Black Isle organisation which campaigns is part of for better infrastructure, policy an international network of and political support for cycling Transition communities working to become a safe, healthy and towards making the lives of attractive mode of transport for their members more satisfying people of all ages and abilities in and sustainable in the face of Inverness and the Highlands. resource depletion and climate We want to see Inverness change. If we work together in become a place where the communities on a local scale, natural choice for short it is possible to take positive, journeys includes cycling. practical steps towards building highlandcyclecampaign.org a thriving Black Isle and world. transitionblackisle.org Get involved! newsletters or visit After our fantastic wins in greens.scot. You can also help Holyrood, and the local build our national campaign authority elections last year, we fund by joining the Holyrood need to continue to lead the Club – forms can be found at change in our communities. the registration desk. Here are a few ways you can get active and make a Make use of your skills difference. The party is mostly run by volunteers. Everyone has skills Get involved locally that the party values, either Local branches are the at local or national level. backbone of our party. For Whether you’re professionally details visit members.greens. qualified, or simply have time scot or contact the SGP office to stuff envelopes, your help is (details below). Recruit other invaluable! members! Invite family, friends or colleagues who might be Become a social media interested in the Greens to activist make that next step. Like and share on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram Make a donation and more – or even write a Unlike big parties we don’t blog. We’d love you to tell the get any state funding and our world about your campaign policies tend not to attract experiences and connect with huge corporate donors. We other Greens! More details are rely on individuals like you. It’s at greens.scot/get-involved. easy to donate to one of our Be sure to tag any campaigning crowdfunder appeals – see our with the hashtag #ActiveSGP. Contact • Scottish Green Party, 19B Graham St, Edinburgh EH6 5QN • [email protected] • 08700 772 207 • Twitter: @scotgp • facebook.com/ScottishGreens • www.greens.scot 26 Show your support! Our online shop has a wide range of merchandise, all made from certified 100% organic cotton in a wind-powered factory.

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