Mayor

The Mayor represents the Borough by attending over 200 events during their civic year in office. These engagements include official openings, play schemes, sports functions, charity events, special occasions such as golden weddings and other significant anniversaries and birthdays.

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If you would like the Mayor to visit, please use our online Mayoral Booking form (Opens in a new window).

All Mayoral engagements received are strictly risk assessed.

The Mayor is also happy to connect with residents by email, video calls or pre-recorded messages, phone calls and letter.

We aim to respond to requests within 7 working days wherever possible.

The Mayor - Councillor Barbara Carr 

Barbara Carr was first elected as a Borough Councillor for Beeston North in 2011. Having always lived in Nottingham, and moving to Beeston in 1999, Barbara is very involved in her local community and she hopes to continue this during her year as Mayor.

During her time as a Councillor, Barbara has been involved in a number of Committees and Working Groups including as Deputy Chair of the Housing Committee, Leisure and Health Committee, the Broxtowe Refugee Forum, the Member Development Group, Licensing and Appeals Committee, Events, Arts, Culture and Heritage Working Group and the Policy Overview Working Group.

Her community work has included roles as a school governor, exam invigilator and trustee of the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Barbara spent her career working in the banking sector, including working within branches and in mortgage development, where she won a National Award. After leaving Nat West in 1999, Barbara took up a role with the Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce, where she trained start up business owners on how to produce cashflow and business plans. She also worked closely with young entrepreneurs via the Princes Trust, which she enjoyed immensely. Barbara worked across many areas of the UK until she had to retire due to ill health in 2018.

Barbara’s passion is for bringing communities together and people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds and this will form the focus of her year in office. 

Barbara’s consort for the year will be her husband and fellow Councillor, Steve. 

She will also be supported by her Chaplain, Reverend Canon Lilian Heptinstall. 

Barbara has committed to raise the awareness of Broxtowe Youth Homelessness and Age UK Notts, causes that are close to her heart throughout her mayoral year.  

Mayor's Blog

Each month the Mayor sharing a blog about the things she has been up to and the people she has met in the community. Here is her blog for July. 

Date	Civic Engagements	Photos
11th July	75th Anniversary of Trowell becoming a Festival Village (Festival of Britain). I had the great pleasure of presenting a young lady with a prize for the best design of a commemorative badge called the ‘Tower Challenge Badge’. Had a lovely cream tea with her and her family.
13th July	Event held by Trail Makers Education. Fabulous morning at West End Youth and Community Centre meeting Jo and Kirstie. So many smiles and memories made. From young babies to older people from the local care home, we all met outdoors to enjoy the space and wildlife. The children benefitted from being in the outdoors looking for bugs, playing in safe water, completing craft challenges and having time and space to just be children. The elderly loved seeing the babies and young children playing.
17th July	Celebration of the Life of David Embleton - Held at the Royal British Legion in Beeston. David’s friends and relatives met up informally to remember him and his amazing work, particularly in supporting the annual Poppy Appeal.
18th July	Along with Mayor of East Midlands Claire Ward and others, I spoke at the opening of the new Bennerley Viaduct Visitors Centre.
18th July	Scarecrow Judging. Fun event spent driving around Stapleford spotting Scarecrows and picking out the best. You can find out the winners at https://www.facebook.com/share/1LHTTUwrsZ/
19th July	Rushcliffe Borough Council Civic Service at All Saints Church, Cotgrave.

Deputy Mayor - Councillor Sarah Webb    

Councillor Sarah Webb was born in Taplow and grew up in nearby Maidenhead. There, she attended St Luke’s Primary and Newlands Secondary School before moving to Henley Upon Thames to finish her education at Gillots School.

In 1989, Sarah moved to Reading and began working for the jewellers, H. Samuel. She eventually moved to Beeston in 2006 where she worked at the Boathouse Café in Beeston Marina. When the COVID lockdown first happened, the café closed and Sarah started volunteering for Councillor Teresa Cullen, delivering packed lunches to Friday Club members, who were unable to meet at their local community centre, and to other vulnerable residents.

When the café was finally allowed to reopen, Sarah returned to work but continued to help out at the Friday Club. It was there where she received plenty of encouragement to stand for local Councillor and, in 2023, she became the Broxtowe Alliance Councillor for the Beeston Rylands Ward.

Sarah loves helping her local community and finds her Councillor role incredibly rewarding. 

 Charities

Each year, the Mayor supports chosen charities and organises a number of events to help raise money for these charities. 

Full details about the Mayor's planned charity events are available by visiting the Charities Page.

Past Mayors

In 1977 the Council was granted Borough status, and the first Mayor was elected. Since being granted Borough status in 1977, there have been 50 Mayors in office including the current Mayor, Councillor Barbara Carr.

If you'd like to know more about Broxtowe's Mayoral history, you can view a list of all of our past mayors (.csv) (1.41KB) (Opens in a New Window).