Hornsea Born and Bred, I have loved watching and taking part in Hornsea Carnival over the years. Having supported carnival in 2018 as a friend of Hornsea Carnival, I then joined the committee in 2019 to aid with the Social media and promotion of Hornsea carnival via digital technologies, having already done this very succesfully with the Hornsea Biker Event, who noticed an increase their Social media reach to well over 30K with each post. I wanted to help Carnival do the same. When the previous committee resigned, I chucked my hat in the ring and stepped up to run the 2022 Carnival as the chair.

I am a retired Construction Manager, a role in which I regularly dealt with the public and local authorities / highway authorities, etc.  I have been a member of the Carnival Committee since 2013, when I retired.  I have responsibility for arranging road closures for the Carnival Parade, together with all the accompanying paperwork and administration, and liaising with the local highway authority, ambulance service and other public organisations in the context of running the Parade safely.  I also have responsibility for Health and Safety of the Carnival events.

We moved from Hull 12 years ago and have been involved in several local organisations such as Hornsea Rescue and Hornsea Civic Society. Joining the Carnival Committee seemed a good way of helping our community and bringing people together as well as being a fun thing to do.

I have lived in Hornsea for 40 years and have fond memories of carnival, particularly when my children were young. I first became involved with the carnival committee in 2014, when I had some input into the production of the carnival programme’s front cover. I then designed and produced the next 5 carnival programmes. I became Vice Chairman in 2017 and then became the Carnival Secretary in 2019.

I was born and raised in Denmark, lived in Canada for a number of years and settled in Hornsea 5 years ago. Loving it here, i felt i wanted to be more of a part of the community and after having experienced a couple of carnivals and hearing they were looking for new members I thought this was the perfect opportunity to give back in any way that I can and hopefully for many years to come.