Kevin Warnes

Shipley Ward councillor

Councillor Kevin Warnes has been a Green campaigner since the late 1980s and a local councillor since 2004.

He has lived in Shipley since moving here with his family over 20 years ago.

Kevin has served on a range of Council committees during his time as a councillor, including more than decade as a member and chair of the Environment Committee. He currently sits on the Shipley Area Committee.

When he is not busy with community politics, Kevin teaches Politics, History and Criminology at a sixth form college in Leeds where he has worked for the past 20 years.

He also enjoys reading, running and cycling, and likes to combine beer with chess whenever he finds the time.

Contact Kevin

Tel: 07582 101459

Email: kevin.warnes@bradford.gov.uk

Twitter: @kevinwarnes

Latest news about Kevin

Councillor calls for West Yorkshire Pension Fund to drop “dirty” investments before global climate summit

26th July 2021 | 0 Comments

Councillor Kevin Warnes (Green, Shipley Ward) has written to the Bradford District Councillors who sit on the West Yorkshire Pension Fund Joint Advisory Group, asking them to review the Fund’s investments in fossil fuel linked industries. According to UK Divest, the West Yorkshire Pension Fund is valued at around £13.2 billion, with around £504 million […]

Greens hail best ever election across Bradford

10th May 2021 | 0 Comments

Councillor Martin Love was re-elected in Shipley for with 3405 votes – a massive 60% of the total votes cast. This is the best result we have had in Shipley since we first won an election in the town 20 years ago. Earlier in the day, we also secured our first council seat outside of […]

Greens propose the most radical green budget of any local authority in the UK

18th February 2021 | 0 Comments

Green Councillors are proposing that Bradford backs the most radical green budget of any local authority in the UK. Councillors Martin Love and Kevin Warnes will call for multi-million pound investments that will improve the quality of life for Bradford families, deal with the traffic that blights our neighbourhoods and ramp up Bradford’s response to […]