Cleobury Mortimer councillor offers advice to anyone thinking of standing for election

People interested in serving as a councillor are being encouraged to consider standing in this year’s Shropshire Council elections.

There are currently 74 councillors serving on Shropshire Council, representing 63 electoral divisions across the Shropshire Council area.

Every four years local elections are held to elect the councillors who will represent each division. The next elections will be held on 6 May this year.

Now people are being asked, do you know what a councillor does, and could you be a Shropshire Councillor?

Madge Shineton is a local councillor for the Cleobury Mortimer division. She has been a councillor at parish, district and unitary level since 1978. She says that she first became a councillor because she thought she might be able to make a difference.

She says that being a councillor gives her an enormous degree of satisfaction, because “it’s all about what happens to people locally… you can achieve something that you can see and touch and that is useful to the community.”

Anyone who would like find out more, and is interested in standing for election, should click here to visit the Shropshire Council website.