The Mayor of Tunbridge Wells

Councillor Nancy Warne

Nancy Warne is a Ward Councillor for Cranbrook, Sissinghurst and Frittenden. She has been a member of the council since 2019, representing residents in Benenden and Cranbrook ward from 2019-2024 and serving as the Cabinet Member for Communities and Deputy Leader of the Council from 2022-2024.  She was a member of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish Council from 2016-2022 where she led the Neighbourhood Development Plan.  Nancy is the borough council’s representative on the High Weald National Landscape’s Joint Advisory Committee.

Nancy was born at Charity Farm in Cranbrook, and was educated at Cranbrook Primary, Angley and Cranbrook Schools before heading off to the University of Bristol to read Geography.  Upon graduating she moved to London and worked in Arts and Environmental organisations, before returning to Cranbrook in the mid-1990s to raise her family.  She worked as a Buyer and Manager at the family-run Charity Farm Countrystore during the 2000s and studied at Hadlow College gaining qualifications in Garden Design and Horticulture.  From 2019-2022 she studied at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London and was awarded a distinction in her master’s degree in Spatial Planning.  She currently works as a Sustainable Development Senior Adviser for Natural England.

Nancy lives in central Cranbrook with her husband Matt, who will accompany her as her Consort during her year in office.

For her charity for the municipal year, she has chosen Wellbeing in the Weald, which is based in her hometown of Cranbrook.  The charity focuses on building social connections by offering support and activities to those living in the town and surrounding villages and rural areas, and who for whatever reason are finding life difficult.