North East Hampshire Labour Party

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Petition to Support Hart Foodbank

The Hart Foodbank charity was being charged £450 a month by Hart District Council for storage space in the old Fleet town centre toilets. This was money that could otherwise be used to feed the neediest in our community – arguably the responsibility of local or national government. Local churches are providing distribution space but the Foodbank also needed storage space. By operating in Hart, the Foodbank is saving money for Hart District Council (and its council tax payers), and saving it the embarrassment, in this area of relative wealth, of having its residents go short in their basic and urgent need for food. We found it appalling that Hart was taking resources from this charity.

We raised an online petition to Hart District Council to highlight this and to demand action. Hundreds of residents signed it. This resulted in Hart agreeing to consult with the Foodbank, and making a £10,000 grant to the Foodbank. The Foodbank manager told us that our petition led directly to this, and thanked us for our action.

Other parties rushed to claim the credit for that grant, but were notably absent in this matter the next year. It fell to Labour to pressure the council again the next year, and obtain another grant.

Preventing health cuts by Hampshire County Council

Conservative-dominated Hampshire Council proposed massive cuts to health services, at a time of huge need. We in Labour campaigned to make sure that as many people as possible responded to the consultation – and you the residents of Hampshire stepped up and provided a huge response. The Tories were forced to back down on the cuts.