Roxanne Egan
is the prospective Parliamentary candidate (PPC) for the Thornbury and Yate
Constituency Labour Party (CLP).
She may be contacted in
the first instance by post at the CLP office:
Roxanne Egan, 3,
Chantry Road, Thornbury, Bristol, BS35 1ER,
by office phone on
01454 412865 or by mobile (text)
07877 008993,
or by e-mail roxanne.egan@yahoo.co.uk
Roxanne is 20 years old
and a student of architecture at Greenwich University.
She joined the Labour
Party when she was 15 years old and is a member of Young Labour.
Roxanne is a reliable, self-motivated and hard-working person who is
dedicated to the Labour Party. She says, “I am young and although I
lack some experiences, I offer a fresh outlook on political views
and am eager to develop and grow, and to help others to do so as
well.”
Roxanne believes that
experience does not come just from “being there”, but from the
quality of involvement with others, engagement in interaction with
them, and the skill and judgement developed in using available and
relevant means. She is clear that such experience gained by young
people in everyday life at home and at school develops skills which
are vital for living and should given more responsibility than is
usual.
In her last year at
Hanham High School Roxanne was elected President of the school
Student Union where she represented students who came to her. She
says “By listening to them and working closely with them we were
able to develop helpful solutions. We developed a mentoring
programme inspired by vulnerable children.”
Roxanne has worked as a
receptionist in the High School and as a waitress in a busy Italian
restaurant. Her main work after school has been as an organiser for
an agency providing street collectors for charitable causes.
As a community activist
and a Labour Party member Roxanne has been a member of the Staple
Hill Residents` Association, aiming to improve local surroundings
and helped raise awareness for the committee in an organised
demonstration. She has organised and run street stalls, and done
door-to-door and telephone canvassing, campaigning in the 2005
Parliamentary Election in Weston-super-Mare and local council
elections in Twickenham in 2006. Since becoming our PPC she has
supported a campaign to save local Post Offices, and to get Arriva
to stop more trains at Yate railway station. She has attended and
reported back two national Labour Party conferences as our delegate,
and built up a network of colleagues of her own age and interests in
the Labour Party and in Bristol Women`s groups.
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Roxanne says, “As a
child in a single parent family, I have been a direct recipient of
many of the Government`s policies and have been able to speak about
this with many people. I received an Educational Maintenance
Allowance (EMA) whilst in the school sixth form, and am now
receiving university financial help. By going through certain
situations and being directly involved in Labour policy it is easy
to talk about how it helps. I have been in the same shoes myself and
know how much it has helped me and my family.”
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Produced
by Colin Burgess on behalf of Roxanne Egan, both at 3 Chantry Road, Thornbury
BS35 1ER