Bridlington Town Mayor – Councillor Rick Arrand
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I along with my wife Kim moved to Bridlington in 2012 after 30 years in the Steel and Transport industries respectively. We decided to buy a guest house to venture into hospitality and we never looked back. I also served as a Retained (on-call) Firefighter with the Humberside Fire and rescue service for 10 years.
I had, as a child, always spent holidays in Bridlington and this continued when our own children came along and the tradition will hopefully carry on through our granddaughters.
Whilst running the guest house we joined the Bridlington Tourism Association and I became active on the committee. After a short while I progressed to Treasurer and eventually in 2019 Association President.
In 2022 we decided to sell the guest house and look for new challenges. I had gained an interest in local politics and decided to stand for election. I was kindly elected as both as Town councillor and an East Riding of Yorkshire Councillor. Upon joining the Town Council I was elected by my peers as Deputy Mayor and then this year was bestowed the greatest honour of being elected as Mayor of Bridlington.
In my spare time I enjoy playing golf, horse racing, football and spending quality time with my family.
We are looking forward to the upcoming year as Mayor and Mayoress and having the opportunity of meeting lots of new people and visiting an array of organisations from our wonderful community.
My charities this year will be the Kingfisher Café and a local dementia group which we will hopefully be able to raise a nice amount of money for to further their amazing work that they do for the community of Bridlington.