People

• Cllr Bernard Little
  

  Bernard little is Centre Cllr representing Sheffield Green Party, and recently started a walking group for colleagues at his workplace when the bus service was withdrawn.

• Cllr Dan Lyons
  

  Dan is a lobbyist and campaigner for animal welfare who was elected to Stocksbridge Town Council in May 2007. Winner of a prestigious UK Political Studies Association award for the best thesis of 2007 for his research into the weakness …

• Cllr Jillian Creasy
  

  Councillor for Central Ward

  I joined the Green Party soon after arriving in Sheffield in the mid 1980s, but became more active around the start of the war in Iraq and the proposal to build a giant new incinerator in the …

• Cllr Rob Murphy
  

  Councillor for Central Ward
  Rob is 40 years old. He has been campaigning in Central Ward for over 5 years and has helped Cllrs Creasy and Little with their work in the council and on the doorsteps. As the party’s Transport Spokesperson, …

• Steve Barnard
  

  General Election Candidate for Sheffield Hallam 

  Steve Barnard

  I have over 25 years of political experience including spending 4 years as a Sheffield City Councillor. I specialises in grassroots campaigning aimed at getting more people involved in politics and having a voice …

• David Hayes
  

  Candidate for Beauchief & Greenhill
  David is a former Labour councillor for the Heeley ward and co-chair of Sheffield Green Party. David suppliies expert planning knowledge, gained during his time as a councillor, to the party.
  David is strongly against the St …

• Bev Cross
  

  Bev has been a SGP member since 2004. She comes originally from Canada, has lived in Sheffield since 1980 and worked in Sheffield’s voluntary sector as a charity lawyer since 1986.

• Eamonn Ward
  

   
  Secretary and Election Agent
  Eamonn is an administrator and is also the Elections officer for Yorkshire & the Humber Green Party. He was the Campaign Manager for the Yorkshire & the Humber European election in 2009 in which the Green Party …

• Graham Wroe
  

  Candidate for Manor Castle
   
  I am married with 3 grown up children and have lived in the area since 1979. I am 50 and work at Castle College where I teach adults Skills for Life. I have stood in every local …

• Judith Rutnam
  

  Treasurer

• Kathy Aston
  

  Press Officer

  I am in my 40s and teach English for Academic Purposes at Sheffield University
  to overseas students of all nationalities and cultures. I live in a terraced house in Hillsborough and stood as the Green
  Party candidate in West Ecclesfield in …

• Krystyna Haywood
  

  Green Party Activist and Co Website Manager

  I am Sheffield born and bred, and have lived in a council flat in the Heeley/Arbourthorne area for the past 10 years. In that time, I have volunteered briefly with several local initiatives …

• Angela Roberts
  

  A long-time member of the Green Party, Angela has been active with the party on a national level helping to draft policy in her area of expertise; animal protection. Angela founded Uncaged, a national animal protection campaigning organisation in 1993 …

• Arun Mathur
  

  Green Party Activist

  I am married with two sons who attend High Storrs Secondary School.  I have been qualified as a psychiatric social worker for over 20 years, and have worked for the past 10 years in emergency mental health services. …

• Chris McMahon
  

  Candidate for Hillsborough
  Chris works in property management but is better known as a talented local musician whose bands include Haze, Treebeard and Silverwheel.
  Chris has been involved in many green campaigns including “No Asda” in Hillsborough and the anti-incinerator campaign.
  Chris campaigned …

• Gareth Roberts
  

  Candidate for Gleadless Valley
  Gareth Roberts, Green Party candidate for Gleadless Valley says “If we all take small steps to live a greener life, together we will make a big difference.”
  To live greener, Gareth started to cycle or take the …

• Heather Hunt
  

  Green Party Activist
   
  I am pleased to be standing in Mosborough for the 2nd year. I have been a member of the Green Party for 18 years and have previously stood in General Elections. I was born in Sheffield and come …

• Jason Leman
  

  Jason is a researcher into education at Sheffield Hallam University and a research assistant to the Green Party Councillors in Sheffield.
  As a researcher Jason has sat in on many a council meeting, and argues for the Council to …

• Jennyfer Barnard
  

  Jennyfer is a civil servant, former Labour party election agent and Campaign Co-Ordinator. Her partner Steve is also a former Labour councillor.

• Julian Brandram
  

  Candidate for Beighton
  I am 62, divorced with two adult children and have lived in Sheffield for 8 years I have also lived in Scotland, Wales and Australia. I have a degree in agricultural botany and I have been working with …

• Julie White
  

  Julie is a GP in Woodseats, and manages all her home visits by bicycle.  She enjoys growing vegetables and making preserves from local produce.
  Updated March 2010

• Linda Duckenfield
  

  Green Party Activist

  Linda lives in Heeley and has three grown daughters. She has been a teacher in adult and community education for over 25 years, though she was previously a social worker.
  She has been involved in campaigning on environmental and …

• Tina Gilligan
  

  Tina is a lecturer in Sheffield Business School with research interests in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development.  She is a trustee of a local charity and has previously been a member of a local NHS Trust.
  Updated Feb 2010

• Rob Cole
  

  The Real Choice in Broomhill

  Rob is 26 and has lived in the local area for 9 years. He is a Sheffield University graduate and now runs his own sustainable kitchen company. He has been the Green Party candidate for Broomhill …

• Rob Unwin
  

  Candidate for Sheffield Central Ward
  Rob has lived in the area with his family  for the past 15 years. He  works for an city centre educational charity.
  Since 2003 he has been a community campaigner with the Greens in Central Ward supporting …

• Peter Garbutt
  

  I was brought up in a Labour-supporting household. My first political memory is Harold Wilson’s first 1963 win against Douglas-Home, but it wasn’t until 1981 that I first became active, joining the nascent SDP. I became the first convenor for the Bradford …

• Jon Ashe
  

  Jon has lived in Broomhill since the early-1980s; and is a Green Party contact for people living in Broomhill, Crookes, Crookesmoor, Walkley, Hunters Bar and neighbouring areas. He has been involved in ‘progressive politics’ all his adult life, first getting involved …