Karen Simnett

I was born in the Buchanan hospital and grew up, went to school, work and play nearby. I’ve been a Hairdresser for twenty years; I may have cut yours. I want to see our local community thrive through sustainable reinvestment in the way we buy our food and energy, how we deal with our waste and how we travel. I believe by strengthening our local economy and infrastructure we make ourselves more resilient and less vulnerable to outside and often unpredictable forces. I am also a co-chair of Transition Town Hastings, a local community organization, exploring solutions to problems arising from climate change and environmental damage and expanding on the themes above to build a healthy environment to leave to our future generations. In the spirit of Green Party Policy we are soon implementing a water bottle refill scheme to reduce plastic bottle waste, with an ambition to make Hastings a zero single-use plastic town.