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Prickwillow
Village Council
Officers Chairman: Robin Pearson Treasurer: Angela Shipp Secretary: Jackie Petts Members
Mike Wilson
Wendy Wilson Jean Pearson Edward Rice Richard Raine Dave Simpson Robin
Pearson, Chairman
 Robin has lived in Prickwillow since 2003. He works at Cambridge University Department of Veterinary Medicine. Before moving to Prickwillow, Robin lived in Wicken where he served on the Village Hall Management committee for 3 years. Since coming to Prickwillow he has become a member of the Village Hall Management Team and in 2004 was the main force behind the Prickwillow Beer Festival. Robin is currently the “Designated Premise Supervisor” for the Village Hall with regard to sales of alcohol. Other activities Robin is involved with are theatrical productions with the Swavesey RADSOC, Tuba player with the Cottenham Brass Band and Field sports. Robin is pleased to be associated with the Prickwillow Village Council. He and Angela help considerably in keeping the average down to an acceptable level.  Angela
Shipp, TreasurerFounder Member, Prickwillow Village Council I have lived in the village for 22 years. I am married with two sons. When they were small I served on the Village Hall committee, St Peter’s Church committee, the playgroup committee and was a member of the Women’s Institute. I could also be seen tending the bar at Hiam’s sports and social club for a brief while. I am proud to be associated with Prickwillow Village Council as I believe it can accomplish great things for the village. I really enjoy the sense of community that the village has to offer. Prior to living in Prickwillow I lived and worked in Cambridge. I now work, part-time for a well known high street bank in Soham. I am also membership secretary for Ely and District CAMRA and am Chairperson of Mildenhall Sea Cadet Unit. In my spare time I enjoy card-making and even dabble a little with cake-making, purely in an amateur capacity, of course.  Cllr Jackie Petts,
SecretaryJackie is a founder member of Prickwillow Village Council and is elected Member for Ely East on East Cambridgeshire District Council which includes Prickwillow, Queen Adelaide, Stuntney and a large part of the historic centre of Ely. She has lived in Prickwillow for over 23 years and now runs a small map and tourist guide publishing company - Cambridge Mapmakers - as well as a group of media doctors. With her late husband, Peter, she set up and ran The Herbary Prickwillow for some ten years and the couple also ran a radio PR company. She has a daughter, stepson and lots of grandchildren.  Wendy
WilsonWendy has lived in Prickwillow since 2006. She is married with two grown up sons. In January 2007 she was a founder member of Prickwillow Village Council and is also a committee member of Hiam Sports and Social Club. Previously Wendy lived in Hayes, Middlesex, where she was a Folk Group Leader for 12 years and involved in the Scouting movement for 11 years, five of those spent as a Cub Scout Leader. She was also a founder member of her local residents’ association, acting as secretary. Wendy believes that you have to become involved if want to maintain and improve your quality of life within the community.  Cllr Jean PearsonJean has lived in Prickwillow since November 1999. She is married with two grown up children. She is a director of a publishing company in Ely, which she has served for over 20 years. In January 2007 she was a founder member of Prickwillow Village Council and in May of the same year, she became a member of City Of Ely Council, representing the Ely East Ward, the area in which Prickwillow lies. She has no religious leanings but believes that we can live good, meaningful lives, without a religious or superstitious dimension. She feels that we can make sense of the world using reason, experience and shared human values and that we must seek to make the best of the one life we have by creating meaning and purpose for ourselves. She strongly believes that we should take responsibility for our actions and work with others for the common good. It is this basic, inclusive, humanist philosophy that Jean brings to the role of City and Village Councillor.She does her very best to improve the quality of life of all those she represents and takes her two civic positions very seriously. If anyone ever has a problem that they think that she might be able to help them with, she will be only too willing to try, or if it does not come within her remit, to direct them to someone from another authority who is better placed to give the level of assistance required.  Mike wilson Edward
RiceFounder Member, Prickwillow Village Council  Dave Simpson Richard Raine |