Author Archives: JimfromOldham

The budget has been delivered to parliament, and I spoke about the support being offered to people in Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton as the detail was published yesterday. The cost of living crisis is still very real for many people. Even though progress has been made with five Bank of England interest rate cutsContinue reading “Budget 2025 – Tackling the Cost-of-Living”

It was great to be at the White Bank Road Vestacare Stadium this weekend to see Avro secure a solid 1-0 win over Nantwich Town, to move to joint top of the NPL West! Last month, we met with club director Rob Fuller, Oldham Council & Action Together, to discuss progress on investment in theContinue reading “Great win for Avro FC”

There’s been a lot of talk about the markets lately, and there’s no doubt they can make or break governments – just ask Liz Truss. But all politics is local, and the market I pay attention to is our own Tommyfield Market… or, to be precise, the people of Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton. IContinue reading “Co-op Conference Speech”

It was a pleasure to meet with William Lees Jones from the longstanding family run institution JW Lees Brewery about the pub and wider hospitality industry at the Boat & Horses in Chadderton. They do a great job, employ lots of local people and provide social spaces for the community to come together.

Thank you to those from Spark Oldham for having me, including founder Kim Rogers, at your community space in Fitton Hill earlier this week. It was a pleasure to get to see a glimpse of the fantastic work you do for our local community to boost mental wellbeing, engage young people, and promote volunteering &Continue reading “Great to see the work Spark Oldham does for the local community!”

I appreciated Robert Troy, the Minister of State for Financial Services, Credit Unions, and Insurance in Ireland taking the time to discuss the work they are doing to strengthen and grow credit unions. Credit unions, building societies and mutual banks are a foundation of fair access to affordable finance, but we can do more inContinue reading “Meeting Irish Minister to discuss work to grow credit unions”

It was a pleasure to catch up with Dr Georgia Brennan at the Maths Week Parliamentary Expo. A proud Oldhamer raised on Fitton Hill who went on to Oxford to complete a PhD where she now works on mathematical modelling of Alzheimer’s disease to help support the development of new treatments. An inspiring journey notContinue reading “Great to see proud Oldhamer Dr Georgia Brennan again!”