Matt Wootton

Matthew L.J. Wootton is a prominent member of the Green Party of England and Wales. As Publications Co-ordinator on the Party's Executive he rebranded the party as the party of "Real progress" employing the design skills of graphic designer Jim Killock. The next year in 2005 as External Communications Co-ordinator he led the party through its most successful General Election, achieving record media coverage and using research and advertising agencies for the first time, according to his homepage.
As a politician standing for public office he has represented the Green Party in two major campaigns: in June 2005 he achieved second-place to the Labour party in the Lancaster East division of Lancashire County Council and at the end of the same year he was the only candidate to improve on their party's vote share, achieving 3rd place in the [http://en. .org/wiki/Lancaster_local_elections#2003-2007 John O'Gaunt by-election] on Lancaster City Council, but taking votes from all three other parties.
From 2005-8 he was a member of the party's Standing Orders Committee, which deals with interpreting and upholding the party's Constitution and internal processes according to Individual Page on Green website, and served as convener from 2006-7.
As a member of the party's Conferences Committee in 2008 he was also responsible for finding the venue of SOAS for the party's first London conference in over a decade, the conference which elected Dr Caroline Lucas MEP as the party's first ever Leader and resulted in record media coverage.
Wootton's background—having studied Sociology, Music and Philosophy at university—was as an activist, and even as Wales Green Party's media officer, and leader of the media and communications campaign for the Green Party's Welsh Assembly campaign in 2003, was responsible for and led a protest that involved invading a runway at Swansea airport to protest at the first day of flights between Swansea and London.
He joined the 2005 from Lancaster to Scotland and then protested in Edinburgh, Faslane and Auchterarder, while taking part in a documentary for BBC Four entitled '.
He currently works for Lancaster-based media-arts organisation folly as Communications Manager whilst still being active in the Green Party at national level.
He writes a personal blog called Daily Planet and also The Green Words Workshop with Rupert Read which concentrates on “reframing” Green issues, with an emphasis on professionalising and popularising the green message".

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