News from Councillor Shane Collins.
“I escaped the film business and joined the Green Party in the first Green surge in 1989 when the dangers of climate change became clear.
I have been involved in numerous Green campaigns since then such as CoolTan Arts, Twyford Down and anti roads campaigns, Reclaim the Streets, Freedom Network against the Criminal Justice Act, drug reform and licencee of the Annual March and Festival to Legalise Cannabis and had a long spell as a board member of Lambeth Community Police Consultative group. I am a Core Participant in the ongoing Undercover Police Public Inquiry having been spied on by undercover police in the 1990s.
I was elected to Mendip District Council in 2015, re-elected in 2019 and became a Somerset Councillor in 2022 representing Frome East.
Currently I am a director of the award winning Green Gathering CIC festival, the UK’s first renewably powered festival and speak at and programme the Glastonbury Speakers Forum.”