Councillor Tricia Leman

Tricia Leman is the councillor of Camden Square. She is a member of the Council Scrutiny Committees for Children, Schools and Families, Health and Adult Social Care and also of the Council Licensing Committee.

She has recently become the Council Champion campaigning to oppose violence against Women and Girls. Community safety for women and for all Camden residents is one of her priorities and she has helped highlight the importance of this in the development of Camden’s policies for licensing in the night time economy.

Tricia has lived in Camden for over 35 years and raised her family here. She has a wide knowledge of the borough and has been an active member of local community and neighbourhood groups, helping to organise community events as well as chairing the local branch of her political party.

She has been a Governor at a range of primary and secondary schools and is a Trustee of a charity that provides training and employment opportunities to young people with learning differences.

Tricia has extensive experience teaching in both further and higher education. She has developed and led programmes that support young people in staying engaged with education and training, improving their employment prospects. In higher education, she has delivered postgraduate programmes in business management.

She is a Fellow of the CIPD (The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) and has advised Local Authorities and national charities on the organisational challenges that have emerged in recent years including the use of mediation in conflict resolution.

Tricia grew up in south Wales in a single parent family and was the first in her family to go to a university. She is a lifelong feminist and has served as a member of the TUC (Trades Union Congress) National Women’s Committee campaigning to defend women’s rights in employment and to close the gender pay gap.

Tricia is delighted and honoured to be appointed as the Deputy Mayor for Camden and says:

“I am grateful for the opportunity to represent Camden and our Camden values. I look forward to meeting community leaders and residents from all our diverse communities across the Borough. I believe this is a time when our civic democracy needs explaining and defending and I will take every opportunity to demonstrate the transparency and accessibility in civic life which is central to our Camden values.

In my role as Deputy Mayor, I look forward to continuing to develop our aspiration ‘to make Camden a place where everyone has a chance to succeed, where nobody gets left behind and where everyone has a voice.”