03/05/2022
Burnham and Highbridge Town Council Election -Burnham NORTH Ward
Our Candidates.
Oliver Hulme moved, with his family, to this part of Somerset in 2001. First to Berrow, then to East Huntspill. Oliver moved to the middle of Burnham on Sea in 2007 and has been here ever since. “We love the place” he says.
Oliver has been a postman, a haulage contractor and a mechanic. Since 2000 he has worked in journalism and the media. He was the district reporter for the Burnham & Highbridge Times, eventually news editor for Mid Somerset News. Oliver became a freelance writer working in magazines in 2016.
Oliver is Chairman of the Peaty Sea Theatre Co (formerly the Princess Theatre Company) and has written and performed in several plays with the company. Oliver was bar manager for the BoS Folkfest, and musical director of Wells May Fair on the Cathedral Green from 2010-2016.
Last year Oliver drew Burnham and Highbridge Town Council’s attention to the police funding that allowed the installation of motorcycle ground anchors in both towns.