I have lived and worked in Surrey Heath for over 30 years.

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Born in Farnham, Surrey in the 1960s I been fortunate to travel the World as my father was in the British Army. After 10 years of living in London for work reasons, I settled in Bagshot as my home to raise my three now grown up children.

During their time growing up I was passionate about their development and became involved with local issues. I was Chair of the Bagshot Playing Fields Association in the late 1990s and committed to saving green spaces and keeping open leisure activities free to the local community. I was also involved with the Guides and Scouts, the local Football Club, Curley Park Rangers, and my passion for the local schools. For the past 14 years I have worked as a Governor and now a Trustee of five of Surrey Heath’s most successful state schools.

I joined the Brexit Party in 2019 as I realised I was politically homeless. If I wanted to make changes locally then I had to stand up and be counted. With Brexit still not secured by the current Government I have joined Reform Party UK to keep fighting for those British values we need to protect.

I believe funding for local areas should be given to local councils as they know best where to spend their money, not from Westminster down. The current Government have no idea what it is like to survive financially in the current climate or high taxes, low incomes and rising costs of living. Local councils need to step up to what is really needed and they too need a shake up to bring politics into the modern world for the people who live in their local areas.

The crumbling NHS has been and still is mismanaged. People are dying in corridors as there are not enough employees available to work. We heralded the Doctors and Nurses in the Covid era yet we have done nothing to show how much we value them.

Our local schools are run in buildings that should have been knocked down years ago, there is again no money available for renovating or rebuilding. Teachers once revered as a superior vocation is also struggling to employ staff as the pay is outdated and their powers to run their schools has been given over to bureaucrats in parliamentary offices, who have no idea of the struggles. The rising needs of specialist educators grows as our children’s needs change.

Working in secondary state education it is my passion to ensure education is the best it should be and any other local issue that needs fighting for I am prepared to act. Reform in the UK is needed. We have to work together to achieve it. So if you want change vote for Reform UK - there is no other party able to shake the establishment. The time is now!