A V howitt 🍃💚🍃

Heritage Environment Community I write from the heart. Retweets not necessarily an endorsement. #StrongIndependentWoman

[Cllr Donna Greaves @Donna4Rainhill]

Vote Rainhill Independents this Thursday 7th May
#wearerainhill #rainhilltogether
@AvcHowitt @rocketsrainhill @Tasker4MP

[Cllr Donna Greaves @Donna4Rainhill]

Keep it local this Thursdsy 7th May
Vote RAINHILL INDEPENDENTS
@Tasker4MP @rocketsrainhill @AvcHowitt

[A V howitt 🍃💚🍃 @AvcHowitt]

@Donna4Rainhill @rocketsrainhill @Tasker4MP @ParishRainhill Genuinely the way in which Rainhill Community is so amazing, organisations, Parish Council, Ward Councillors , businesses and residents working together for the good of all. Thank you. 👏

[Cllr Donna Greaves @Donna4Rainhill]

Thank you so much your swift action.
It's great when local clubs and amenities WORK TOGETHER with residents concerns over muddy boots.
Great piece of proactive grass toots football care 👍
@rocketsrainhill @Tasker4MP @ParishRainhill
#triggersbroom

[Rainhill @rocketsrainhill]

Birthdays at Rainhill Rocket FC at the Holt
❤️🍰
Football family
Community
@ParishRainhill
@Tasker4MP
@Donna4Rainhill
It's what we do

[Rainhill @rocketsrainhill]

Good to have @ParishRainhill at Holt tonight discus parking & future plans
In a few years gone from damp left to rot for 40 years mess to fantastic sustainable maintenance free
@FootballFoundtn signed off the last works commented how have we achieved so much with a small grant

[Cllr Donna Greaves @Donna4Rainhill]

⚠️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS YEAR'S LOCAL ELECTIONS FOR RAINHILL ⚠️

⚫️ CHANGE OF POLLING STATION

Trinity Church, Longton Lane ✅️
Longton Lane Primary school ❌️

Rainhill Scout Hut (Deepdale Drive)✅️

St Ann’s Millennium Centre (View Road)✅️

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@rocketsrainhill @Tasker4MP @ParishRainhill @DeeGee100 @RainhillSOGB @RainhillLibrary
#WeAreRaRainhill #RainhillTogether #7thMay
* Promoted by James Tasker, Flat 2, Ran Lea, Mill Lane, Rainhill, L35 9NH on behalf of Rainhill Independents

[A V howitt 🍃💚🍃 @AvcHowitt]

@rocketsrainhill @Tasker4MP @Donna4Rainhill It has been our great pleasure to work with the Community supporting as many different categories as possible, Youth, sports, Luncheon Club, Riding for the Disabled,Civic Society, Schools, Rotary,Gala amongst many

[Rainhill @rocketsrainhill]

The Rainhill Independents effect
What was inherited
What stage were at now
All for very little £
@Tasker4MP
@Donna4Rainhill
@AvcHowitt
❤️👏

[A V howitt 🍃💚🍃 @AvcHowitt]

@Donna4Rainhill @Tasker4MP An excellent Team for Rainhill Independents, putting Rainhill to the fore in all they do.

[Cllr Donna Greaves @Donna4Rainhill]

It's my absolute honour to announce I am standing again for Rainhill Independents as a full Ward Cllr with @Tasker4MP and James Dunn in May 2026

I will also be standing for Rainhill Parish Council - New in NORTH ward with 4 other absolute belters who are committed to making Rainhill a better place 💙❤️

More news to follow...

#WeAreRainhill #RainhillTogether #7thMay2026

[Rainhill Community Library Hub @RainhillLibrary]

We have been working for 4 years with a group of volunteers, at first, to try and save the library from closure and then to try and take on the former library building. Our aim is to set up a community library that can also act as a community hub to bring Rainhill Together again

[A V howitt 🍃💚🍃 @AvcHowitt]

@Donna4Rainhill @netflix Things not too different happened in St Helens at Florida Farm.

[Cllr Donna Greaves @Donna4Rainhill]

There's got to be a documentary on @netflix about this because you just could not make this up....it's an incredulous story but its not a story, its real life.
This needs to serve as one of those planning quotes "has Astley due diligence been adhered to" so any future monumental fuff ups like this cannot be repeated.
Much support and admiration to those impacted and please do not ever go quiet because that's how these things are allowed to just go away and be forgotten about
@astleyaction

[A V howitt 🍃💚🍃 @AvcHowitt]

@rocketsrainhill Looking good👍

[A V howitt 🍃💚🍃 @AvcHowitt]

@deeznuts561105 @TheAccountantUK @GBPolitcs A St Helens Councillor , Chair of Rainhill Parish Council, with a reputation for hard work and integrity.

[Cllr Donna Greaves @Donna4Rainhill]

And here we are again!!!
While council tax is set to rise by 4.99%, COUNCILLOR'S BASIC RENUMERATION quietly rose by a further 3.22% to £9,400 for 2025/26

Again, as an Independent, I will not be accepting this and my renuneration will remain at the pre 2024 rate of £8,236 before that was massively increased by the contraversial 10.58% uplift.

At the time, Council Leader Baines went on the attack at being challenged, saying Rainhill Independents were "stealing a living" and if anybody didn't deserve an increase, it was us, while he encouraged all his Labour Cllrs to take the increase.

Ironically, David Baines is now an MP on an MPs salary plus expenses but he may have also felt a pang of concience at our challenge back because he was the only Labour Cllr (to my knowledge) that followed our lead and did not to take the increase, which you could say smacks of "do as I say, not as I do"

Since April 2024, James and I, as true Rainhill Independents, have not taken the increase, still fulfilled our duties and been visible week in, week out, working hard in not only our ward but our commitments at the town hall on behalf of Rainhill. Therefore, that increase has remained within the council coffers and budget towards essential services across St Helens for the last 2 years.

It may only be around £1700 each but between us, that's £3400 that we have refused to take.

There were another 45 Cllrs in St Helens in the same position who all had the same decision to make, take it or leave it in the budget.

While the majority took it, some of our other Independents in St Helens (Terry and Karl in NLW), took it on the proviso to specifically use within their ward on their own projects

AS Rainhill Independents THAT IS SOMETHING WE COULD ALSO CONSIDER NOW AS IT ONCE AGAIN RISES BY A FURTHER 3.22%.

So it's over to YOU Rainhill, what would you like us to do as your elected members? *Discussion now open.....

Click here for the original 2024 post👇

https://t.co/n3RBRVPLwG

*please keep debate polite and respectful
@Tasker4MP
@ParishRainhill

[A V howitt 🍃💚🍃 @AvcHowitt]

@rocketsrainhill @greenergrounds @ElliottAmenity @HuytonJuniorsfc @FCKirkbyOff @afc_knowsley I’ve not actually used seed rolls but undercover can speed up germination, keep in moisture in dry conditions, minimise wash out in wet conditions plus stop bird depredation, but you know all that!

[A V howitt 🍃💚🍃 @AvcHowitt]

@rocketsrainhill @greenergrounds @ElliottAmenity @HuytonJuniorsfc @FCKirkbyOff @afc_knowsley Yes I’ve got some lawn to patch sow but I’ll leave it another month or so.