The Right Worshipful The Mayor of Bath
Councillor Shaun McGall
2010 - 2011

At their Annual Meeting and Election of Mayor Ceremony in Bath Abbey on 5 June 2010 Councillor Shaun McGall was elected the 783rd Mayor of Bath.  

The Mayor’s theme will be ‘Town and Gown’.  Councillor McGall came to Bath as a student fell in love with the City and has been here ever since.  He studied Human Geography and Modern European History at what is now Bath Spa University, and was elected Vice-President (Education and Welfare) of the Students’ Union.  Shaun went on to study for a Masters degree in Social and Market Research at the University of Westminster.

Since graduating in 1993, he has spent his career working in both further and higher education.  Currently he is a Learning and Teaching Development Officer at the University of Bath, where he has worked since 1999.  Previously he managed the Students’ Union at City of Bath College and was an elected regional sabbatical officer for the National Union of Students for two years in the mid 1990s, when he was based at Norton Radstock College.

Councillor McGall previously served the City as Deputy Mayor in 2004.  The Mayor’s Chaplain is the Reverend Kieren Bourne, Senior Pastor at the Living Springs Metropolitan Community Church.

One of Councillor McGall’s first civic duties was to appoint Amy Williams as the first woman Honorary Freeman of the City of Bath following her gold medal victory in the Winter Olympics.  

Photo by:  Sam Farr

During his 11 years as a Bath & North East Somerset Councillor serving Oldfield Park, Shaun has been a member of the Community, Culture and Leisure Committee, the Resources Overview and Scrutiny Panel, the Schools Organisation Committee, the Bath Area South Local Committee, the Corporate Audit Committee and more recently the Regulatory (Access) Committee.  In 2002, he established and chaired the Council’s Student Liaison Committee until 2007, when the SLC was replaced by the Student Community Partnership.  He was a founder member of the Councillors Campaign for Balanced and Sustainable Communities, which has recently helped to change national planning legislation with regard to Houses of Multiple Occupation.  

He is a member of Avon Fire Authority and sits on its Appointments Committee.  He has served as a Governor of City of Bath College, a Trustee of Off the Record (an information, support, advice and counselling service for young people), Chair of Hillside Hall Community Association, the local advisory committee of the Duke of Edinburgh Ward scheme, and Chair of the Oldfield Outlook Regeneration Scheme Steering Group.  In 2002, Shaun succeeded in his campaign for Bath and North East Somerset Council to become one of the first local authorities in the Country to establish a Partnership Register for gay and lesbian couples, the forerunner to today’s national Civil Partnership.

He is a keen rugby player and supporter of Bath Rugby Club.  

The Mayor of Bath's ongoing charity is The Mayor of Bath's Relief Fund.

View photographs taken at the the Election of Mayor Ceremony in our Photo Gallery.