News - Justin Tomlinson

Local MP Supports Swindon Supermarine Sports & Education Trust Quiz Night

Jul 31, 2017

North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson entered an office team into the Swindon Supermarine Sports & Education Trust quiz night, in aid of their Walking Football Programme. An addition to Justin’s team was Sana Mahmood, a work experience student from Ridgeway Sixth Form, who wrote the following article describing the evening: The walking football team is an association for men and women aged 50 or over, seeking to help pensioners who suffer from mobility, fitness or health problems by participatin...

Justin Tomlinson MP Visits Local Mental Health Charity To See Success First Hand

Jul 31, 2017

North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson visited Root and Branch, a charity near Sevenhampton, providing craft and horticulture based activities to promote the recovery for people with a mental health conditions.Root and Branch offer a wide range of activities including gardening, blacksmithing, carpentry and ceramics. They currently offer 45 spaces a week to service users (known as Gardeners) to be able to start crafts projects and work in a friendly environment, with access to professional equipment,...

Local MP Meets Swindon Climate Action Network To Discuss Farming After Brexit

Jul 31, 2017

Justin Tomlinson MP has met representatives of Swindon Climate Action Network (SCAN) to discuss the potential for biodiversity in farming after Brexit.SCAN is a local independent group of Swindon residents concerned about climate change. As well as taking part in national campaigns, SCAN organise local campaigns to encourage people to reduce their carbon emissions, proactively recycle and be more conscious of their carbon footprint. Justin regularly meets with members of SCAN to discuss what he ...

Justin Helps Celebrate 20th Anniversary Of Mental Health Charity TWIGS

Jul 31, 2017

North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson has joined local mental health charity TWIGS to celebrate their 20th Anniversary.TWIGS is a fantastic local charity that supports up to 110 people with mental health conditions a year by offering therapeutic activities in horticulture, woodcrafts and crafts to help people recovering from mental health issues gain new skills.The tea party was an excellent opportunity to celebrate TWIGS’ success over the past twenty years and consider their plans for the future in...

North Swindon MP Raises Fellow Local Residents' Concerns With Police & Crime Commissioner

Jul 31, 2017

Local MP Justin Tomlinson has met with the elected Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire, Angus MacPherson, to discuss a number of different issues.Justin raised again the issues that local residents have been having with both the 999 and 101 call service. Mr MacPherson acknowledged that more needed to be done to make the call centres work and communicate better and they hope that a new appointment will start to make improvements quickly.Also discussed was the number of officers in Wiltshi...

North Swindon MP Calls The Numbers At Local Gala Bingo

Jul 27, 2017

Justin Tomlinson MP was pleased to join staff at Gala Bingo to call out numbers in their charity round last week and discuss the challenges facing the company from emerging online competition.Justin was especially impressed by the size of the hall, accommodating up to 2000 players, and the new use of tablets to play the game- this proved to be a massive help to the bingo novices from his office!Although nobody won the jackpot, Justin and his constituency office team had an excellent evening play...

Justin Joins Local Businesses To Talk About Economy, Business & Brexit

Jul 27, 2017

A host of Swindon businesses were gathered at the Marriot Hotel last week to hear from North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson who provided an update on the economy, business and Brexit.The Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce who hosted the event which was kindly sponsored by Barclay’s, represents a number of member companies including BMW, Thames Water, GWR and Zurich. The Chamber’s vision for Swindon is that the location will continue to be an innovative and growing economy where businesses are well-c...

Local MP Attends Switch On To Swindon Event

Jul 27, 2017

Local MP Justin Tomlinson has joined ambassadors from 'Switch On To Swindon' for an event geared at updating local businesses on the progress made so far by the initiative.The aim of 'Switch On To Swindon is to promote the town as a great place to live, work and visit in order to encourage other businesses to come to the town and invest in it. The event started in January and has already signed up almost 450 ambassadors from Swindon. But now the job is to get out there and persuade others from ...

North Swindon MP Welcomes The End Of Unfair Practices In The Sale Of Leasehold Homes

Jul 26, 2017

Justin Tomlinson, MP for North Swindon, has welcomed the recent announcement by the Communities Secretary Sajid Javid, that the Government will be introducing a series of new measures to tackle the unfair practices in the sale of leasehold houses. In many cases new homes are being built and are sold on in this way, with some of them being sold to new home buyers who are left with unfair agreements that lead to exploitative surcharges and spiralling ground rents. Under the new system these practi...

Justin Celebrates Success Of Highworth Tennis Club At Open Day

Jul 26, 2017

The North Swindon MP and Chair of the Sport All Party Parliamentary Group, Justin Tomlinson, attended the Highworth Tennis Club open day on Sunday to meet the volunteers who run the club as well as a number of the new junior members.The Club, which is based next to Highworth Rec, consists of five courts (two of which are floodlit) and run a number of coaching courses as well as private sessions available with fully qualified LTA coaches. They have a full junior programme as well as accommodate f...