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Swin was born and raised in West Lancashire and lives in Burscough where she is an active community volunteer and a member of the Town Council. Swin’s activities in the borough include
- Volunteering in conservation with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust
- Delivering fresh food to foodbanks, community cafés and school breakfast clubs across West Lancs
- Running West Lancashire Stammtisch – a monthly meet up for local German speakers
- Supporting Burscough Hub Group with talks and activity sessions for participants at the town’s wellbeing café
- Women’s activist – supports the WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaign and fundraises for West Lancs Women’s Refuge (The Liberty Centre)
- Disability campaigner – seeking to raise awareness of hidden disabilities and advocating for people with them
Swin is passionate about the community in which she lives and wishes to take this into the borough council chamber to ensure the voices of the residents of Burscough and Rufford are heard when it comes to housing, flooding, roads, public transport and key infrastructure services including GP and health services.
Swin said: “It would be the honour of a lifetime for me to be trusted to take residents’ views and voices and air them in the council chamber and through the work of the council on a day-to-day basis. As a resident within Burscough myself, I witness daily the good and the bad things about Burscough and Rufford, and I will do my utmost, if elected, to support residents who want to see improvements to our roads, our neighbourhoods and our local health services.”
Swin welcomed the opening of Burscough’s new Wellbeing & Leisure hub one year ago and is pleased that Labour continues to invest in the area’s wellbeing and recreation, especially by adding to our indoor leisure with outdoor leisure:
- Rufford Recreation Ground play area extension and equipment and safety upgrade
- Burscough to Parbold canal towpath improvements
- Investment in Burscough Community Orchard
Swin hopes to, if elected, revitalise West Lancashire’s ‘town twinning’, by reaching out to our twins Erkrath in Germany and Sergy-Pontoise in France and by working with local schools to promote cultural and knowledge exchange between our two communities.