Our Clerk & Councillors

"I moved to Mistley in 1957 with my family and my father was the local policeman for many years until his retirement. Although I am of retirement age now, I have decided to carry on, albeit on reduced hours, the job I have always loved as a community care worker locally. Mistley is very special to me and I have watched it change enormously over the years but I will always have the best interest of Mistley and its residents at heart and wish to try and make Mistley continue to be a lovely safe happy place for future generations to enjoy."

"I am retired from my role as an Area Sales Manager in medical sales and want to put something back into the community I have retired to. My career background is in medical sales to hospitals dealing with consultants, management and other medical professionals. I am an active member of the local Rotary club and the sailing club. My greatest claim to fame is organising and working on the clearing of the path along the Walls. I am the communities’ officer for Rotary. I enjoy history, sport (watching nowadays), and walking."

"As a working parent with young children the Council allows me the flexibility to fit my contribution around the needs of my family and work. I am interested in providing improvement facilities and equipment to encourage inclusion and community fun. I am also interested in keeping the Village safe.”

"I have lived in Mistley for nearly 46 years,  having played football for Mistley United F.C. and cricket for Mistley Cricket Club, and am now a social member of the Rugby Club. My working life has been spent in coal fired and Nuclear power stations, generating electricity for the National Grid. When the Covid restrictions were lifted in early 2022, I joined the team of the Manningtree Community Bus as a Driver, which brings me into contact with the residents of Lawford and Manningtree and increases my contact with the friendly faces in Mistley. With the Parish Council, I would try to maintain Mistley as the very pleasant place for us to live now, and for generations in the future."

After leaving the Military I moved about in certain jobs until I started working in the aviation industry in 1993 as a baggage handler and worked my way through the ranks to an operations manager in several airports in the UK setting systems up and, in some cases, seeing over the whole operation. Unfortunately, due to 9/11, the aviation industry took a big hit, and I was made redundant whilst working at Newcastle International Airport.

On retirement through ill health my wife and I settled in Clacton-on-Sea and joined the local branch of the Royal British Legion and through my military service I took on the roll as Assistant Parade Marshall, working voluntary as a County Case Worker and stepping up to County training Officer followed by County Parade Marshal.  After moving to Mistley in 2013 I was one of the Co-Founders setting up the Manningtree & District RBL which was run until covid and was closed due to lack of numbers attending, we have now set up the North Essex Veterans Support Group (NEVSG) which was founded in 2021 and has grown from strength to strength, where we have had over 80 members regularly attending our breakfast group.   We assist in helping veterans in times of need. The group has outgrown our first venue the Crown in Manningtree, and we have now moved to the Brantham Leisure Centre for our breakfasts and events”.