Stocksfield Parish Council

Cllr Maggi Hunt - 01661 842674 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Chair: Stocksfield Parish Council
Maggi joined the Parish Council in the autumn of 2010 and is now Chair of the Council. Maggi also chairs the Council's General Governance Advisory Group and its Sports FIeld User Group.  She has lived in Stocksfield since 1990 and both of her children attended local schools.   Maggi has a career background in education and work with young people, as well as a long history of volunteering, as a Governor of two local schools for fifteen years and as a member of Northumbria Police’s Strategic Independent Advisory Group.  Two of her grandchildren also live in the village.

Cllr Judith Furniss - 01661 599153 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Judith is a member of the General Governance Advisory Group. She has lived in New Ridley for over 29 years and has previously worked within nursing and education. She has been active locally as a volunteer in schools and adult education centres and is secretary of Prudhoe Castle Bowling Club.

Cllr Chris Liddle - 07737 777836 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Chris is a member of the Communications Advisory Group. He grew up in Stocksfield and returned to the village in 2017 after living in Manchester for 10 years. He works as an independent marketing consultant and has two young daughters. When his children allow, Chris likes cycling, football, walking and home brewing.

Cllr Dennis Parke - 01434 634793 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Dennis is a member of the General Governance, the Planning and the Communications Advisory Groups and the Sports Fields User Group. He is married and has lived in the North East for over 3 years, having previously lived in Willaston on the Wirral, Cheshire where he worked for Unilever for over 30 years. He has 2 daughters who have both attended Newcastle University (one of the reasons he moved to the North East). When he lived on the Wirral he was a School Governor at 2 primary schools and a coach of Colts and Junior rugby at Birkenhead Park.

Cllr Mike Parker - 01661 843887 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Mike has lived in Stocksfield for over 30 years. He is Convenor of the Planning Advisory Group. Both of his children went to local schools.  He has been retired for nearly 7 years.   Since the late 1970s he worked at Tyne Tees Television as a Camera Operator and Supervisor until his retirement.  In 1995, he trained as Assessor; Trainer and Coach, and in Recruitment & Selection, for Skillset.  From 2000 he was Head of the Camera Dept. and also Health and Safety Officer at TTTV.

Cllr Helen Rae  - 07730 519531 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Helen Rae has lived in Stocksfield since 2015 and is a member of the General Governance Advisory Group. Originally from Gateshead, she returned to the north east after living in other areas of the country for some 33 years. Helen’s career has been spent in NHS management with a specific interest in the care of elderly people and people with a mental illness or a physical or learning disability. Until recently, Helen was a Trustee and non-executive Director of Relate Derby, a member of the Alzheimers Society and was previously a school governor.

Cllr Julia Robson  - 01661 844562 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Julia has lived in Stocksfield for the past seven years with her husband. She has always lived in the North East, attending Northumbria University, but grew up in Stocksfield. She loved it so much she returned to raise her young daughter here. Julia wants her daughter to be brought up in the same way she was raised in the village.

Cllr Professor Ray Thompson - 01661 843332 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Ray has lived in Stocksfield for some 44 years with his wife. He is a member of the General Governance and  the Planning Advisory Groups. He worked in aerospace and marine engineering both in the UK and USA prior to retiring from Newcastle University as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. After retirement he was elected to two terms as County Councillor, serving on the Planning and Health Committees. He was Chair of Newcastle General Hospital for four years. Ray is an Alderman of Northumberland County Council and Freemen of the City of London. He is an external examiner at various universities and a member of the Boards of a number of Professional Societies. Ray has been a member of the local Parish Council in the past, during the 1970s and 80s. He is a keen golfer and season ticket holder at Newcastle United.

Cllr Paul Vickers - 01661 844834 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Vice Chair: Stocksfield Parish Council

Paul is the Vice Chair of the Parish Council, Convenor of the Rights of Way and Environment Advisory Groups and a member of the Communications Advisory Group. He and his wife Gina live in Stocksfield with their three children Caitlin (at university), Carys (at Prudhoe High) and Zachary (Broomley First School). Paul was born in Newcastle and grew up in Hertfordshire where his parents moved for work reasons. In 1988, when Paul was an undergraduate in Liverpool, his parents relocated back to the north east settling in Stocksfield. Paul worked in Liverpool until 2001 and is now Reader in Computer Science at Northumbria University.

County Councillor - Northumberland County Council

Anne Dale - 01434 673326

Anne is the County Councillor for Broomhaugh, Stocksfield and Mickley and, for a period of time, was also a Parish Councillor in Stocksfield. Anne now attends Parish Council meetings in her role as County Councillor.

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