Register of interests

Councillor Helen Claire Shepherd

From 1 November 2021 councillors' gifts and hospitality have been recorded with their Register of Interests. For details of councillors’ gifts and hospitality prior to that date, please contact Democratic Services.

Register of Interests

I have the following disclosable pecuniary interests as described in the Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012 of which I am aware and which are my interests and those of my spouse/civil partner/partner with whom I am living as spouse or civil partner (“relevant persons”).

1. Employment, office, trade, profession or vocation:
You should register details of any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.
Managing Director SAFE Innovations LTD registered at Quaker Cottage Back Lane Askwith LS21 2JA - a design and architecture company specialising in wellbeing
Director SAFE Offender Healthcare LTD registered at Quaker Cottage Back Lane Askwith LS21 2JA - a health consultancy company specialising in offenders and vulnerable groups
Husband Larl Lenton: Burr Lenton Architecture registered office Quaker Cottage Back Lane Askwith LS21 2JA - an architecture practice
2. Sponsorship:
Name of person or body making payment/other financial benefit
None
3. Contracts
Description of any contracts between you and the Parish Council
None
4. Land:
Address/description of land in which you have a beneficial interest which is in the area of the Parish Council
I live at and own Quaker Cottage, Back Lane, Askwith LS21 2JA
5. Licences:
Details of an address/description of any land you are licensed to occupy
None
6. Corporate Tenancies:
Details of the address/description of any corporate tenancies
None
7. Securities:
Benefical interest or share capital in a business or land in the Parish Council area
I have 100% shares in SAFE Offender Healthcare, I have 55% shares in SAFE Innovations. Neither company operates from this address, this is the registered address. Both companies operate from 15 Queen Square, Leeds LS2 8AJ
Karl Lenton has 50% shares in Burr Lenton and 35% shares in SAFE Innovations. Burr Lenton Architecture LTD operates from 2nd Floor, Princes Exchange, Princes Square, Leeds LS1 4HY

Other Interests

B. Other Registrable Interests (other than disclosable pecuniary interests) - I also have the following Other Registrable Interests (as required to be registered by the Authority’s Code of Conduct for Members): NB - In this section, the Code only requires Councillor interests to be disclosed (not those of a spouse/partner/civil partner).

8. Unpaid directorships
You should register details of any unpaid directorships you hold.
None
9. Bodies to which you are nominated by the Parish Council
You should register details of any body of which you are a member or are in a position of general control or management and to which you are nominated or appointed by your authority.
None
10. Public bodies
You should register details of any body exercising functions of a public nature of which you are a member or in a position of general control or management.
None
11. Charitable bodies
You should register details of any body directed to charitable purposes of which you are a member or in a position of general control or management.
None
12. Political parties/Trade Union/Professional Association membership
You should register details of any body one of whose principal purposes includes the influence of public opinion or policy (including any political party or trade union/professional association) of which you are a member or in a position of general control or management.
I am a member of the Labour Party