Islington Green Party has selected Mick Holloway to contest the forth-coming Junction ward by-election.
Mick Holloway wants to “offer residents the chance to
put a Green voice in the Town Hall again”
The by-election was called following the resignation of independant councillor and former Liberal Democrat Arthur Graves.
Long-time Islington resident, Mick Holloway has lived off Crouch Hill, N19, since 1977 and is a Licenced Lay Minister of St. Mary’s Church, Ashley Road. A qualified Civil Engineer and having looked after his two daughters as a father at home, his career has been with voluntary sector organisations, as a manager of projects working with homeless people in Islington, as director of a refugee project in Newham and, until Febuary 2012, as CEO of Stepping Stones Trust providing accommodation services for ex-offenders in London.
His political experience includes CND membership, the campaign against the abolition of the ILEA, establishing and being vice-Chair of the Beaumont Rise Neighbourhood Forum and successful local campaigns against unsuitable developments and on behalf of a family of Kurdish asylum seekers. He is currently a governor at Duncombe Primary School and on the steering group to establish the Crouch Hill and Hornsey Rise Neighbourhood Forum.
Mick said “I’m delighted to have been selected to contest Junction ward and look forward to talking with residents on the doorstep. Islington has had an effective Green councillor before and I want to offer residents the chance to put a Green voice in the Town Hall again.”
To help Mick with his campaign to become a Green councillor for Islington, please contact him on 07928 423645 or see our events page.
This article was originally published on Islington Green Party website.