Camden Town with Primrose Hill

Meet your 2010 Camden Town with Primrose Hill Candidates...

As one of the more experienced councillors Pat Callaghan has had the good fortune to represent the community in Camden at Bloomsbury from 1995-2002 and at present at Camden Town with Primrose Hill. As a local resident she has firsthand knowledge of the issues affecting our community and through her role as a local councillor she is very active in seeking solutions to improve the quality of life for residents within the area.

Pat gained invaluable experience working with diverse communities in her previous career as a nurse working within the NHS. With this background it was a natural evolution for her to become a public servant in such an exciting challenging place as Camden certainly is!

As a mother of five Pat is concerned with youth resources and provision and work closely with Castlehaven Community Centre, and she is looking forward to working with the new Youth Council, which is an exciting step forward in bringing youth issues to the fore in Camden.

Pat sits on the Health Scrutiny Committee and the Licensing Committee, she is proud to be a Governor at Primrose Hill and St Michaels junior schools. She is a board member of Novas Arlington and a Camden observer on the Camden Society. Pat relishes being on the frontline of Council activity and in this way can effectively meet the needs of individuals within her ward.

Email    patricia.callaghan@camden.gov.uk

Robert Higson

Originally from Manchester Robert has now settled in Camden with his long-term partner. He has been campaigning along with Pat and Tom over the past year for the need for greater youth provision in our area, tackling poverty and the need to protect our green spaces.

He is a member of the Unite trade union (Transport and General Workers section) and works as a Senior Parliamentary Researcher to a Labour Member of Parliament.

In his spare time, Robert enjoys five-a-side football, the Camden music scene and Irish history. He is also currently completing a part-time History Masters Degree.

Thomas Neumark

Thomas Neumark is a candidate for the Labour party in the Camden Town with Primrose Hill ward, having lived in the ward for the last three years. He is active in a number of local groups, sitting on the management committee of Primrose Hill Community Association and as a school governor for nearby Torriano Infant school. He is also a workplace representative for the Unite Union.

He now works in the voluntary sector but worked for the previous three years as a housing officer for a Housing Association working in inner London. He has a Masters Degree in Social Policy from the London School of Economics.

He has campaigned locally on a number of issues such as protecting council housing, calling for a police station for Camden Town and working to protect our green spaces.

He loves jogging in regents park, shopping in the market and eating out at local restaurants.