Your Batchwood candidates for the May 2022 district council elections are Liz Needham, Sinead Howland and Jenni Murray.
District councillor Liz Needham has lived in St Albans for 31 years. She is chair of trustees of St Albans for Refugees (StAR) and chair of trustees for the Welwyn Hatfield Women’s Refuge (WHWR). For the last two years Liz has been distributing donated food weekly to members of the community who are in need of a little help, and arranged that all St Albans district councillors could directly refer residents to the St Albans Foodbank. She also organised the vigil in support of Ukraine in March 2022.
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Sinéad Howland is a determined district councillor with strong community values. Her priority is to continue to work closely with community groups to improve and protect parks and green spaces. Sinéad plans to continue to find ways to improve the area for families, while taking care of the natural wildlife. She lives in the area with her husband and two children and can often be found out running in the Batchwood woods or walking her dog in the local parks.
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Jenni Murray was born in St Albans and went to Garden Fields and Townsend School. She has been a community activist all her life, regularly running fundraising events across the city with her family for Prostate UK. She set up and runs a Facebook group for people to donate unwanted items to those in our community.
Being a part of a strong community is what Jenni is all about. From running events such as Black history month and National Thank You day, to organising coach trips for local people. Jenni loves to be involved in the local community. She has been working in schools for over 20 years in varied SEN/support roles and is currently a student support officer. She's also a volunteer bereavement counsellor for Cruse. When Jenni isn’t working or fundraising she can often be found cooking Caribbean food with her family for community events.
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