Faye Purbrick grew up and attended school and college in Somerset, eventually moving overseas to build her career before returning to Somerset to be close to her family.
Faye stood as the Conservative candidate for Glastonbury and Somerton in the 2024 General Election and for the Somerton and Frome by-election in 2023. She has served as a Somerset Councillor since 2017, where she was appointed as the lead member for both education and council transformation (until May 2022). Faye led various projects to improve services, deliver better value for taxpayers, and simplify processes. This included the country’s first county-wide programme using robot avatars to help young people maintain their access to education when facing complex health challenges. She led a major school building programme for Somerset, recognised as delivering the best-value school builds by the Secretary of State for Education, and championed the installation of more solar panels and effective construction methods to reduce school energy and running costs.
Faye’s publishing career started in Somerton, working for a small company on the Bancombe Road Trading Estate, and she worked her way up to the role of publisher for an economics magazine based in Dubai. After launching a new economics research brand serving businesses looking to expand and grow across the Middle East and North Africa, she moved into the construction industry, helping project management companies to secure work and develop. Back in Somerset, and after a decade of running her own successful consulting business, Faye now works for a global consultancy firm active in the construction, forensic accounting, intellectual property, and investigations industries.
Faye has proven time and again that she has the ideas and the ability to deliver change and improvements in both the private and public sectors. She has served as a hospital governor, charity trustee, school governor, mentor, and Town Councillor, and is dedicated to finding new ways to strengthen and support communities and businesses so that they can thrive.