Wellington North Ward (Wellington Town Council)
John is a single parent to two young sons and was elected in May 2015. He has previously served on Taunton Deane Council and Somerset County Council. John has lived in Wellington since the age of 10. He trained as a journalist on the Wellington Weekly News and in 2022 he returned to work for the newspaper.
He has worked for many newspaper groups across the Westcountry and enjoyed a career in public relations. He also worked for a Home Office organisation recruiting volunteers aged 50 and over to use their life skills to help voluntary groups. Before returning to journalism, he was a cleaner at an office and warehousing site and later a McDonald’s restaurant. John has helped with many campaigns for local people, and served as a school governor and on the committees of Wellington Food Town and Wellington Carnival. John was chairman of a NHS watchdog group in Taunton Deane and was involved in the refurbishment of Wellington Cottage Hospital resulting in enhanced outpatient and new clinical services.
John played football locally and is a qualified football referee and continues to officiate most weekends of the season across Somerset, Dorset, and Devon. John has run his own businesses and is a former chairman of Wellington Chamber of Commerce. He feels strongly about the need to attract new jobs to Wellington alongside all the new housing development which has been going on, by encouraging new and existing enterprises and supporting major employers such as Relyon and Swallowfield to remain here, as well as the need to make the best possible use of the former Fox’s factory sites. John is a former national trades union official. He enjoys using his life skills for problem resolution and directing people to organisations and/or individuals who can help them.
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