Can you volunteer a few hours a month to benefit the community that you live in?
Parish Councillors discuss all matters that affect those who live and work within the Parish, this could be a new planning application, speed restrictions or dealing with litter issues to meeting community group leaders to discuss grant funding or planning events, such as the recent jubilee "Hampton Picnic".
Anyone can be elected as a Councillor if they are:
• A British, Commonwealth, Irish, or European Union citizen
• At least 18 years old
• Either on the list of electors for the parish, or during the whole of the previous twelve months has:
• Occupied land in the parish as an owner or tenant
• Had a principal place of work in the parish
• Resided in, or within three miles, of the parish
Unfortunately you cannot be a Councillor if you:
•Are the subject of a ‘bankruptcy restrictions order’ or other interim order or
•Have, within five years before the day of election or since their election, been convicted of
any offence and has had passed on them a sentence of imprisonment of at least three months
(whether suspended or not) without the option of a fine or
• Has been found guilty of corrupt or illegal practices or responsible for incurring unlawful
expenditure and the court ordered their disqualification.