I joined my good friend Rev Brunel James and his team of volunteers at the Cleckheaton Community Support Fund, packing up food parcels to be delivered to those in need around Cleck. Brunel and his team started the food bank from scratch at the start of the Covid-19 crisis to…

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Duvalay in Gomersal, a fantastic local and family business built from the ground-up by Liz and Alan Colleran. What started out as a homemade mattress topper designed by and for their family, the ‘Duvalay’ is now a world beating product in the bedding…

On the first day of this year’s Great Get Together, I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon with the incredibly hardworking team at Upper Batley High – an exceptional school equipping their young men with curiosity, creativity and empathy. It was an enormous pleasure to officially open their Upper…

As a testament to the hard work of our constituents in Batley and Spen to follow the Government guidelines, we have thankfully seen low numbers of new COVID-19 cases, patients and deaths in recent weeks. Furthermore, thanks to the incredible job of Kirklees Council in implementing the local restrictions –…

I would like to wish Eid Mubarak this weekend to everyone in Batley and Spen who has been observing Ramadan over the past month. Fasting for a month must be a challenge in normal times; the Government’s Covid-19 social distancing rules and closure of religious buildings must have made this…