menu
We’ve got amazing candidates representing Oxford in the 2025 Oxfordshire County Council Elections.
Emily Kerr is standing in Bartlemas , Chris Goodall is standing in Jericho and Osney – Emma Garnet is standing in Parks, and Neil Doig in Isis
Join the Campaign TeamDonate to the Campaign
Chris writes and researches on how we can move to a zero-carbon society.
His books have won prizes and commendations. He is also an active investor in young climate-related companies, including Oxwash, the business that is revolutionising commercial laundry from its original base in Oxford.
Chris participates in several community activities, including helping set up the scheme to grow fresh vegetables for the Cutteslowe Larder.
Emily is Oxford City Councillor St Marys for has lived in St. Mary’s ward since 2015. She is the founder of Share Our Cars, a national campaign encouraging people to ‘borrow, not buy’ new cars, and lives with her partner and their three young children.
She works as a sustainability consultant and is a great believer in the power of both business and grassroots community initiatives to make change.
Emily is extremely concerned about the impact of climate change and social justice issues and joined the Green Party to make a difference at the local level.
She loves cycling, and campaigns locally for improved cycle and pedestrian safety and empowering people to reduce private car use. Emily has also launched, or helped launch, a number of car-sharing groups in Oxford, allowing neighbours to easily share their cars and reduce pressure on local parking.
She was recently recognised as a Climate Change Hero by the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire. Emily has been a school governor for 13 years and ran a company which published travel guides for kids.
Emily studied for her MBA at INSEAD in France and Singapore, and has a degree from Cambridge and a BA Foundation from Oxford.
Emma moved to Oxford in 2022 and has been an active member of the local community since then.
In her day job, Emma works at the University of Oxford in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, researching how to make our food system healthier and more sustainable.
Alongside this, Emma’s background is in ecology and nature conservation. As such, she cares deeply about protecting green spaces
and ensuring people have access to nature.
Neil Doig, is the Green Party Candidate for Isis Division in the upcoming County Council election on 1 May 2025.
Neil is a geography teacher in Oxford, and is passionate about ensuring young people are equipped with an understanding of the climate crisis and the threats it poses to our society. Alongside this, he has decades of
experience working in finance, energy and global trade.
Neil dedicated to taking steps to address the housing crisis locally in Oxford, as well as ensuring that green spaces and biodiversity are protected.
Also high on Neil’s agenda is protecting Oxford against flooding – a problem many residents are all too familiar with and is becoming a more and more pressing as the climate emergency makes extreme weather events more likely and more frequent.
As such, Neil is committed to building a city where people and the planet come first and where both current and future generations can thrive.