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If you’ve never been to a parish council meeting before, you may be forgiven for thinking that parish councillors are a group of elderly people who meet now and then for a chinwag in a draughty village hall.

If we forget to put the heating on, Caythorpe War Memorial hall can be a touch chilly, and we might concede there’s sometimes a touch of ‘The Vicar of Dibley’ about us, but we draw the line at ‘elderly’ – the only age constraint is that Parish Councillors must be at least 18 years-old!

When people in the community need support and guidance, it is often the parish council that they turn to. Amongst other things, we co-ordinate local flood resilience plans and the neighbourhood watch. We organise the planting of trees and flowers to improve the appearance of Caythorpe, and we organise village ‘tidy ups’ to maintain the beauty of our village. We consider planning applications within the village, and we badger the County Council to grit our roads when it’s icy…in short, we try at all times to fight the corner of our small village and its residents.

Caythorpe Parish Councillors are:

Julia Cons (Chair):

‘I’ve lived in Caythorpe since 1994 and I love it here. I became a Parish Councillor because I believe that I can’t expect other people to take responsibility for our surroundings if I don’t take some myself, and that if we don’t look after our own village, we can’t be sure someone else will.’