We’re pleased to announce that we will be standing candidates in all eight County Council divisions in the East Cambridgeshire region.
ELECTIONS on 1st MAY 2025
These elections are more important than ever, given the recent government decision to restructure local councils. This ‘full slate’ of candidates gives everyone in the area the opportunity to vote Green, moreover it presents a real chance to get Green representation in East Cambridgeshire at County Council level for the first time.
Soham South and Haddenham: David Woricker
David is well known in the division, as the manager of South Angle Farm, which he has run with his family since 2012, opening it to the public as South Angle Farm Park in 2014. He also serves the community as the chairman and Mayor of Soham Town Council.
David believes that the towns and villages of Soham, Haddenham, Wilburton, Stretham, Upware, Wicken and Little Thetford are treated like suburbs of Cambridge and are losing their rural identity. He sees first-hand the over-development on green land and under-investment in our roads and public transport. Like all of our candidates, David fully supports the aims of the Cambridgeshire Sustainable Travel Alliance.
David will provide the strong local voice the area needs. David has a very real chance of becoming our first Green County Councillor, so look out for David and other members of the team throughout the area over the coming weeks.
David is also contesting the East Cambridgeshire District Council by-election in Stretham.
Burwell: FloraMay Waterhouse
FloraMay and her family have spent most of their lives in Burwell. She has been a Green activist long before the more widespread appreciation of the importance of local and global environmental changes. FloraMay was part of the election campaigns which resulted in the reelection of Caroline Lucas, the first Green MP and election of Adrian Ramsey for the nearby Waveney Valley constituency in the general election last year. She is passionate about social justice and will provide a much-needed voice on the local authority in this regard.
Ely North: Tessa Harding
Ely South: Ed Perrin
Ed is the chair of the Eastern Region Green Party and we are lucky enough to also have him as our treasurer. He is standing for his local area of Ely South.
Woodditton: Andy Cogan
Andy has lived, worked and volunteered in the East Cambridgeshire area for 25 years. He is a widower, he has a son who also lives and works in the area.
Born in a Glasgow tenement and brought up in a Bishop’s Stortford council house, he was educated at Cambridge University and elsewhere. He has 3 degrees and teaching, management and marketing qualifications.
Andrew has spent over 20 years as a lecturer and college manager. He ran COVER, a regional charity that boosted the skills & employment of people furthest from the labour market. He chaired the Reboot Cambridge Community Interest Company for some 12 years that processed almost 300 tons of Computer ICT equipment for reuse and recycling which now has a home inside Emmaus, the homeless charity based in Landbeach.
He’s also spent time as a district councillor, was chairman of public service and personnel committees, was a council representative on a regional health authority, and was a lecturer’s union branch secretary. And he is an active member of Newmarket and Ely U3As, Universities of the Third Age.
Andy stood in the Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency general election of 2024, achieving an incredible 7.5 fold increase in the Green vote share compared to 2019.
Andy is standing to bring a change in political priorities to tackle widening social inequality and for urgent action on climate change. He believes every Green vote sends that message.
Sutton: Ray Harding
Ray is standing as a candidate for the Sutton division in the Cambridgeshire County Council elections as he believes that we need real change not more of the same. The Conservative Party ran County Council services here in Cambridgeshire into the ground, just as they did at national level. The Labour/Lib Dem coalition that replaced them has delivered no appreciable improvement.
Ray can offer the skills and experience to shift the dial and drive real improvement & change. He served for 14 years as a Local Authority Chief Executive in King’s Lynn & West Norfolk, spent 8 years as a leading councillor on a large metropolitan council in the West Midlands where he also Chaired the Personnel Committee on the former West Midlands Police Authority.
He lives in Witchford and is actively involved in the local community. He also serves as a Trustee for local and national charities. He is a keen runner and volunteers for a local greyhound rescue charity.
If we elect another Tory or Labour lead coalition, or lurch to the right with a Reform Party more concerned with rhetoric about National issues than delivering decent local public services we can expect to see little or no improvement to our roads, social services or our education services. If you believe that it is time for Real Change, and time to send a message to the Labour government that another round of austerity is the last thing we need – vote Ray Harding, Green Party.
Soham North and Isleham: Darren Curtis
Littleport: Paul Osborne
Please get in touch if you are able to support this campaign. You can also support our local campaign by donating here.