Manifesto for Local Democracy
​We ask all candidates/existing councillors to commit to the following:
  • Working cross-party where possible, in our common interest
  •  Regular contact with your electors, e.g. through surgeries and/or public meetings, newsletters etc
  • Finding ways to engage with all the diverse elements and interests in your ward
  • Consulting with people in your ward about how to spend your personal budget
  • Working to implement the will of the Oxford Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change 
Responses from City Councillors
Blackbird Leys
Carfax
Cowley
Jericho and Osney
Marston  
Rose Hill and Iffley
St. Clements
St Mary’s
Wolvercote
Press release from Oxford Democracy Cafe
For publication week starting 4th May 2020
Local Democracy
This week on Thursday 7th May all 48 city council seats should have been up for election of councillors, both those re-standing and new candidates. 

In preparation for this election Oxford Democracy Café wrote a short Manifesto for Local Democracy to highlight the minimum requirements we believe city councillors of all parties should be meeting in order to adequately represent and engage with their electorate.  ​
 
In normal circumstances this Manifesto would have been used by citizens across the city as the basis for discussion with prospective candidates.

In these far from normal circumstances we believe the Manifesto to be equally important in highlighting how we the people of Oxford wish our representatives to proceed in the next year.  We are therefore contacting all current City Councillors to ask them to commit to these principles and to explain how they currently meet them or plan to do so. We will publish their responses on our website: www.oxforddemocracycafe.org