Councillors/Candidates

Following over 10 years as a Mexborough First Councillor, Andy Pickering will not be standing this time due to recent ill health.

Mexborough First is the brainchild of Andy launching in 2012. He was first elected in 2014, taking a then Labour ‘safe seat’, being re-elected in 2015, 2017 & 2021. We are delighted that Andy will eagerly be supporting our candidates behind the scenes.

Cllr Sean Gibbons will be standing again following almost 10 years serving Mexborough as a local councillor. Sean has been working hard as a community activist in Mexborough for almost 25 years holding positions such as Community Governor, TARA Chair, Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator etc.

More recently he delivers at grassroots level as volunteer Mexborough Foodbank Manager (which he set up in Nov 2014), Trustee of Mexborough Miners Welfare/Athletic Club since 2016 and as Treasurer of Mexborough Events Committee inclusive (MECi) amongst numerous other local community roles.

Sean is joined by two well known local people Tina Needham and John Beal who, like Sean, also live and work in Mexborough.

Tina has lived in Mexborough for nearly forty years. In this time, she has raised a family, fostered a second family and made many, many friends (some through her charity work) who in someways are like a third family. Tina regularly volunteers with B:friend where she telephones, visits and helps older neighbours.

For the past twenty years, Tina has worked as a teaching assistant at local primary school, Highwoods Academy, where she has had the privilege of seeing Mexborough’s future generations grow.

Tina loves our town and decided to stand as a Mexborough First candidate, as she believes we are the only party that will continue to put the needs of Mexborough people & businesses first.

John was born in the house on Doncaster Road where he currently lives with his wife and cat. He has grown up and lived in Mexborough all his life, apart from one year in Sheffield.

John says that our town means his roots. He was educated and later worked at Mexborough School.  He is involved with the Mexborough Heritage Society and used to run Mexborough’s community cinema – The Cosy Cinema.

He currently runs the Mexborough chapter of Read 2 Write, a poetry group.  John says that it is such a pleasure to live in a great community although tinged with sadness at how much the town has deteriorated over the years. His aim is to improve things for all who live and work here.

Sean, Tina & John are looking forward to representing our town under the established and trusted ‘Mexborough First’ party and will continue to ‘Always Put Mexborough First’.

Cllr Sean Gibbons said “I am extremely proud to be standing again and representing Mexborough. Delighted to be joined by two well known local candidates,

Tina & John, who also live and work in our town.

There is still much work to do to improve our town. Exciting times ahead as Mexborough will see circa £24m of much needed investment and regeneration over the next couple of years as part of the  Masterplan/Levelling Up Funding – Round 3 programme”.