Cllr Kelly Middleton

Born in South Telford, Kelly Middleton became a councillor for the Woodside Ward at the 2019 local elections. Kelly is very passionate towards caring for others and was motivated to bring a positive change to the local community, inspiring her to become a councillor. During her time on the council, Kelly has held various positions including being a committee member of Licensing, Planning and Scrutiny and Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board. Currently cabinet member for healthy safer stronger communities and partnerships, lead for public health, mental health and domestic abuse

Outside of her council duties, Kelly previously worked as a Mental Health and Substance Misuse Worker for 11 years and has also volunteered for a local leading mental health charity known as Telford Mind becoming Chief Executive Officer after just four years. Kelly now continues her commitment and passion towards caring for others through her role as a health and well-being specialist for Maninplace  as part of their homelessness service, supporting individuals to break negative cycles of behaviours and build resilience. And manage mental health crisis. Tackling health inequalities that cause homelessness.

More recently, Kelly has founded the School Uniform Project within Telford and Wrekin for the last four years. The project aims to source donations for second-hand uniforms for families who are unable to afford new clothing each school year. And provide pop up shops to give them away for free The project has helped many hundreds of struggling families by reusing good quality clothing which children have grown out of or no longer need and would otherwise end up in landfill. The project has continued to strive amidst the COVID-19 pandemic with various donation and collection pop-up shops set-up across the borough , since then Kelly has set up a prom dress /suit project up getting donated dresses and giving them to families for free.