Hackney Green Party are celebrating their best ever performance in the polls following the elections on May 5.

We had a terrific night at our fundraising quiz at the Crooked Billet in Clapton. Huge support from local people, our members and also from a number of terrific local businesses. Do go and visit them if you can!

Alastair Binnie-Lubbock will be standing for Hackney Downs and Halita Obineche will stand for Stoke Newington for the Greens in the forthcoming Hackney by-election.

Hackney Green Party believe Hackney Council has mismanaged the consultation process for the Quietways scheme in London Fields.

Divest Hackney are a citizens group calling for Hackney Council to divest from fossil fuels. The group is part of the global divestment movement and works with other divestment campaigns across London and the UK.

Hackney Council have announced they will be part of a devolution of health and social care pilot, one of five London boroughs to take part in the pilot scheme.

Hackney Green Party applauds world leaders for brokering a better than expected deal at the Paris Climate summit, but warn that our government and the London Assembly must do more if we are to reduce our emissions in line with the targets agreed in the deal – keeping global warming with 1.5°C.

Hackney Greens joined tens of thousands of marchers in London, and hundreds of thousands around the world, on Sunday to urge world leaders to take action against climate change.

Green Party members visited ten lettings agents across south Hackney and found more than half are potentially breaking the law on displaying lettings agency fees.

The 2015 Green Party Autumn Conference was held in Bournemouth - and no-one could ask for a better spot or more perfect weather! The local party put up a marquee on the beach, the sun shone down on us and some particularly brave locals were even swimming.

Our Hackney co-ordinators, Samir and Charlotte, tried to, as their job title suggests, co-ordinate which events to go to. Check out their diary of a conference attendee...