Collette Finnegan is an experienced community champion who has been working hard for Abbeydale’s residents for eight years.
She has worked closely with local community groups in the area and set up the original Abbey Chatty Coffee club. She served as councillor for Abbeydale between 2016 and 2024.
Collette has also long supported Abbey Rovers FC and has helped the club with council grants.
She enjoys helping people and using the skills she learnt working in the NHS in her work as a councillor.
Collette recently joined the Lib Dems because she believes the Conservatives are failing to offer a credible and coherent vision for the people of this great city
If you have any issues you would like Collette to take up on your behalf you can get in touch with her by email at hello@gloucester-libdems.org.uk
The Liberal Democrats were appointed to the leadership of the local authority at Monday afternoon’s annual general meeting of the council.
They won 17 of the 39 seats the council, with the Conservatives on 11 seats, Labour on seven and the Independents on four.
The Liberal Democrats are promising to improve core services, support the local economy, deliver more affordable housing and make Gloucester carbon neutral by 2030.
Gloucester City Council had made it harder to use the pay by phone option – often favoured by elderly residents who do not want to pay online – for the annual £50 bin charge.
Rebecca Trimnell, who is a councillor for Westgate on the city council, was chosen by local Lib Dem party members.
A motion to the extraordinary general meeting of the city council on October 19 calls for Andy Lewis, Conservative cabinet member for culture and leisure, to make a written apology for the failure to agree a deal with Aspire.
