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...

According to information obtained by the Green Party using the Freedom of Information Act, the cost of homelessness in Hackney in 2009/10 was £3,092,255 compared to £7,167,440 in 2014/15. Over the same period of time, spending on staff was cut from £3,239,653 to £2,608,491.

Hackney Green Party members joined forces earlier this month with local traffic enforcement officers as they took industrial action after negotiations broke down with their employer Acpoa Parking.

Six candidates will compete to be the Green Party’s London Mayoral candidate after candidates were formally announced today.

On Saturday 20th June, the Hackney Greens will join what looks to be the biggest protest of the year, marching through central London against austerity.

"Hackney Green Party welcomes the withdrawal of the Public Space Protection Order. Along with many other campaigns and individuals, we were concerned that it would be used as a tool to harass the vulnerable.

Green Party leader Natalie Bennett is backing Hackney Green Party’s calls for Hackney Council to retract its proposals to impose fines of up to £1,000 on persistent rough sleepers and homeless people. The plans are included in the provisions of a Public Space Protection Order covering much of central and south Hackney.

Hackney Green Party is today calling on Hackney Council to rethink its proposals to fine persistent rough sleepers and other street people. These are included in the provisions of a Public Space Protection Order covering much of central and south Hackney.

• Number of Green Party councillors up to 166
• Green Party win 87 seats in English local council elections, bringing their total number of councillors to 166
• Greens now sit on 58 councils across England
• Greens gain 7 seats on Bristol Council
• Greens win seats for the first time on Bournemouth, Bath, North East Somerset, Forest of Dean, Lewes, Mendip and Warwick councils

Heather Finlay’s Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency voted the Greens into third place, with 14.6% of the vote share up from 4.6% at last election behind Conservatives 14.7%, Labour 63%.