Meet the council
Click on the images to read about our Parish Councillors. We currently have two vacancies - if you would like to support your community and become a Parish Councillor, please scroll down to find out more.
Please click on the photographs below to find the link to each Councillor’s Register of Interests, or alternatively follow this link here to Herefordshire Council website: Register of Interests
Backbury Ward Councillor: Cllr Graham Biggs, Email: graham.biggs@herefordshire.gov.uk
Could you be a Parish Councillor?
Have you ever thought about standing as a Parish Councillor?
Every 4 years every Councillor must step down and be re-elected by the community. All seats became available for re-election on Thursday 4th May 2023, and nine councillors were elected. This means that we have three vacancies. Could you be a Parish Councillor?
The role of a Parish Council is to improve the quality of community life for their parish and its inhabitants. They can:
Give views on behalf of their community on consultations, planning applications and other proposals that affect the parish;
Undertake projects and schemes that benefit local residents;
Work in partnership with other bodies to achieve benefits for the parish or alert them to problems or work that needs to be undertaken;
You can become a Parish Councillor if you are a citizen of the UK, EU or the Commonwealth, are over the age of 18 and if you are an elector in, work in, live in or live within 3 miles of the area of the local council. However, you may not become a Parish Councillor if you hold a paid office, or other place of profit in the gift of the council; have been declared bankrupt in the past 5 years and have not repaid the debt; or have been convicted of a criminal offence in the past 5 years.
If you think this might be for you and would like to find out more, please get in touch with our Clerk, Helen Tinson by email at clerk@fownhopeparishcouncil.gov.uk or telephone on 07989 066782, or follow the links here: Herefordshire Council: About Parish Councils; National Association of Local Councils; Local Government Be a Councillor Campaign.