National executive

The NEU Executive comprises the National Officers, 49 Geographical members, three equality constituency members and three sector seat constituency members. 

The Executive is responsible for the governance, management and control of the Union by Rule. The Executive meets eight times per year.

Nominations for all executive seats are made by NEU districts and by workplaces (in specific circumstances as laid down in the rule) for geographical and sector seats.

All members other than associate and student members are eligible to vote in the elections for the geographical seat-holders.

In addition, members registered in the relevant employment categories (support staff, post-16 and independent) on the date the elections open (3 April) will be entitled to vote in the elections for the three-sector seat-holders.

Members who have indicated on their membership record/equality information that they are Black, disabled and/or LGBT+ by the date the elections open will be eligible to vote in the elections for the three equality seat-holders. You can update your equality data by logging onto myNEU.

Elections to the Executive and the Officer body are held biennially in alternate years. Information about these elections, and any by-elections occurring when we have vacancies on the Executive, is circulated to district officers. If you wish to know more about how candidates in these elections are nominated, please contact your district.

National Officers (2024-2025)

  • President - Sarah Kilpatrick
  • Vice-President – Ed Harlow
  • Past President – Emma Rose
  • Treasurer - Hazel Danson
  • Membership and Equalities Officer – Mairead Canavan

Executive schedule of meetings

  • 25 January 2025
  • 13 March 2025
  • 10 May 2025
  • 12 June 2025 (Awayday - Provisional )
  • 19 June 2025
  • 17 July 2025
  • 26 September 2025 (Induction)
  • 27 September 2025
  • 23 October 2025
  • 29 November 2025

Constituencies

Equality Constituencies

  • Black Member Constituency – HENRY, Denise S
  • LGBT+ Member Constituency – DE GROOT, Kacey
  • Disabled Member Constituency – JOHNSON, Colleen

Sector Seat Constituencies

  • Independent Schools Constituency – METCALF, Brian
  • Post-16 Establishments Constituency – BLACKIE, Duncan
  • Support Staff Constituency – FARTHING, Emma

Executive districts and members

England and Wales are divided into multi-seat electoral districts and Northern Ireland and Scotland form one electoral district.

City of Sunderland, City of York, Co Durham, Cumbria, Darlington, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, North Tyneside, North Yorkshire, Redcar & Cleveland, South Tyneside, Stockton

  • Nicola Hawkins
  • Paul Welch
  • Louise Moores

Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Doncaster, Kirklees, Leeds, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield

  • Louise Lewis
  • Helen Bellamy
  • Debbie Kahler

City of Derby, City of Leicester, East Riding, Hull, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Northern Derbyshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Southern Derbyshire

  • Anna Scott
  • Wendy Hardy
  • Louise Regan

Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, City of Preston, East Lancashire, Fylde and Wyre, Halton, Isle of Man, Knowsley, Lancaster and Morecambe, Liverpool, Sefton, South West Lancashire, St Helens, Warrington, Wirral

  • Julie Copeland
  • Peter Glover
  • Deborah Gwynn

Bolton, Bury, Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan

  • Dawn Taylor
  • Nick Wigmore
  • Vacancy

Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, East Northants, Ipswich and South Suffolk, Luton, Norfolk, North East Suffolk, North Northants, Northampton, Peterborough, South West Northants, West Suffolk

  • Emma Brady
  • Shelagh Kavanagh
  • David Mingay

Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Wolverhampton

  • Christopher Denson
  • Shirley Perry
  • Kate Taylor

Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire

  • Sarah Carter
  • Chris Dutton
  • Leigh Seedhouse

Buckinghamshire, Central Essex, East Essex, Hertfordshire, Milton Keynes, North East Essex, North West Essex, Overseas Service Children’s Education (Germany & Cyprus), South Essex, Southend, Thurrock, West Essex

  • Phillipa Kearns
  • Murray Sackwild
  • Georgia Townshend

Brighton & Hove, East Kent, East Sussex, Hastings, Lewes, Eastbourne and Wealden, Medway, North Kent, South Kent, West Kent, West Sussex

  • Christopher Lilley
  • Holly Williams
  • Liz Ritson

Bracknell Forest, Isle of Wight,  North East Hampshire, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough, South East Hampshire, Southampton, Surrey, West Berkshire, West Hampshire, Windsor & Maidenhead, Wokingham

  • Susan Kent
  • Helen Reeder
  • Michelle Purdie

Bath & NE Somerset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Bristol, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Guernsey, Jersey, North Somerset, Plymouth, Somerset, Torbay

  • Sheila Caffrey
  • Michaela Wilde
  • Jon Reddiford

Blaenau Gwent, Brecon, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Montgomery, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Radnor, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea,Tawe Afan Need, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham,  Ynys Mon

  • Claire Rickard
  • Elizabeth McLean
  • Hannah O'Neill

Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets and the City, Wandsworth, Westminster

  • James Kerr
  • Jessica Edwards
  • Carly Slingsby

Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston Upon Thames, Merton, Richmond on Thames, Sutton

  • Debra Beale
  • Jenny Cooper
  • Lucy Cox

Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Haringey, Havering, Newham, Redbridge Waltham Forest

  • Mehreen Begg
  • Dominic Byrne
  • Louise Cuffaro

Scotland; Northern Ireland

  • Gordon White

Elections

NEU members are eligible to stand for election as officers of the Union, members of the executive or members of the annual and special conferences of the Union.

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