The Town Clerk

Matthew Gleadell took up the post of Town Clerk for Newark Town Council on 31st May 2022, and has previously served as Town Clerk at two other large town councils in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire respectively.

He is a Chartered Legal Executive, having been admitted as a Fellow of the Chartered Legal Executives in 2010 and spent the first thirteen years of his career practicing law at a firm of solicitors in his home town of Gainsborough.

Matthew has three children and when he is not kept busy by them enjoys running, cycling and playing golf; however, his main passion in life is cricket.  No longer able to play cricket due to injury he continues to enjoy supporting his daughter who plays, and offers support to the game in his role as secretary of the Lincoln Youth Cricket League.