Samantha Cave, a customer at Springbank Community Café, said inclusion and equality are big concerns for her next month.
“I want everyone to feel welcome here. I don’t want any minority group to be bashed or hurt in any way,” she added.
“So equality for everybody is my main issue.”
Natalie Beach said she will be thinking about the cost of living when casting her ballot.
“It’s the cost of things and the change in the whole country at the moment,” she said.
Regular patron, Ann Barnes, will be considering local issues.
She said: “It’s the state of the pavements, the state of the roads, rubbish being dumped.”
Faith Rooke-Matthews, who runs the café and is the director of the wider Springbank Community Group, said she wants the council to focus on supporting community projects like hers.
“We need to have people in power who support small community organisations, and aren’t just out for the big people,” she added.
