West Edinburgh Greens

WEG Monthly Meetings

During the last year, we have continued our WEG monthly online meetings and
enjoy a small but regular turnout at these calls.

The meetings are held online to make them accessible to all members given the
large geographic spread of the sub branch, and both Co Convenors have caring
responsibilities.

All new members to WEG receive a welcome email from Anne and Chris, and we have
welcomed new members along to our calls this year.

Our in-person Let's Get Started meeting in November set us up very well to
contribute to the successful Holyrood Campaign - we welcomed c20 members and
volunteers on the night and enjoyed the support of these members during the
campaign. We would like more members to join us for the LE2027 campaign and will
look to encourage this after summer.

Liaison with the Branch

Our sub branch Co Co, Anne Scott was a campaign officer during the last year and
is a member of the Edinburgh Branch Committee. She brings updates to each
meeting based on any recent activity and topics of interest.

Our sub branch Co Co, Chris Young is an SME on local traffic planning matters
and engages with branch reps and councillors on an ad hoc basis, offering his
support and working knowledge of the area as required.

Both sub branch Co Co's have led the sub branch for a number of years and are
keen to make space for others to step into these roles following the LE2027
election, and bring fresh energy and new perspectives to the sub branch.

Cross team activity

WEG members actively supported with door knocking and deliveries during the
Holyrood election campaign and turned out to support candidates across the city.

WEG have still informally supported Pentland ward members in the last year, as
they do not have a sub branch of their own. The teams work together to ensure
Pentland are included in all WEG member communications to ensure members are
informed and included as to opportunities to support and be active in the local
area. There still appears to be no real appetite to formally establish a local
team but Paul Wilson, SBMS Officer has been very supportive in brokering
discussions with SWEG this year, and we understand that they will support the
ward in the year ahead.

Membership as at June 2026 is as follows, where numbers in brackets are the
member numbers as at June 2025. In line with the rest of the party, we are
enjoying an increase in local membership.

Almond: 59 (38)

Corstorphine/Murrayfield: 54 (42)

Drum Brae/Gyle: 43 (27)

Pentland Hills: 46 (34)

Finances

WEG did not spend any funds during the year 2025/6 but also did not hold any WEG
fundraisers. We actively promoted and supported Holyrood crowdfunders. In the
year ahead, we will participate in LE2027 fundraisers and as we will have a
target candidate, will work hard to support fundraisers for our target (and non
target) candidates.

Future plans

WEG were pleased to work with the Elections and Campaigns working group over the
last few years and are excited that we have our first TTW ward for council
elections in 2027. We have focused our GN deliveries more extensively in this
ward and centred our Holyrood campaign efforts in Almond too. We actively
contacted members within Almond to support a stronger local team to help us
achieve our best ever outcome for that ward in the upcoming election cycle.
DORAS training was completed in 2026 but we will need to repeat this to position
us better for LE2027 campaign and to take the pressure off the one member (Ross
Muller - thank you!) who we relied on heavily during the Holyrood campaign. We
still have work to do to develop accessible routes across the 3 wards.

Our sub branch AGM was held on Tuesday 9th June. Anne and Chris were re-elected
as sub branch Co-Co's for one more year, noting they would be keen to hand this
responsibility on next year. Our secretary has had to step down and this
position is currently vacant.