Councillor Mrs Patricia Young was born and brought up in Malta where she lived, apart from a three year period working as a bi-lingual Secretary for the United Nations in Rome, until she met and married her husband Councillor Michael Young who was then stationed in Malta with the Royal Engineers. They moved to the UK in 1970 and then travelled around Europe and the Middle East on military postings before settling in Trafford in 1980. Councillor Mrs Young was granted British Nationality in 1994 and now holds dual British and Maltese Nationality.

She speaks four languages and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts at the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1999.

Once settled in Trafford, Cllr Mrs Young worked for a short time with the then Area Health Authority then took up a position with a local Plastics Injection Moulding Company where she was PA to the Managing Director and two other Members of the Board. She left this job once the children had left school to join her husband in the Sultanate of Oman.

Councillor Mrs Young was elected in 2004 and concentrated on working as Vice Chairman of the Trafford Health Scrutiny Committee and as a member of the Greater Manchester Health Scrutiny Committee. She also sat on Trafford’s Core Scrutiny Committee, was one of Trafford’s representatives on the Fire Authority and presently sits on the Board of St. Vincent’s Catholic Primary School. She is also on the Board of Genie Networks, a local charity giving aid and support to members of the Deaf community in Trafford which she assisted in founding in 2007, acting as Chairman for the first two years.

She has a son and a daughter and is devoted to her five grandchildren all still under the age of 6. Hobbies include painting in oils and water colour, reading, going to classical concerts and to the theatre and playing Bridge.

The chosen charities to be supported this year by the Mayor and Consort are the Christie Charity and Genie Networks (please see further information at the end of this biography).

Councillor Michael Young was born in Cardiff and went to school in Sussex. He read Physics at the Royal Military college of Science and joined the Royal Engineers. During his service his tours of Duty included Malta, where he met and married his wife, Germany and Saudi Arabia.

On retiring from the Army after 16 years he worked at Newton le Willows for four years before returning to the Middle East where he became Support Services Director to the Oman MOD. From there he went to Former Yugoslavia with the UN and then NATO. Finally he worked in Nigeria as a General Manager of an engineering company before retiring in 2005.

He was elected to the Council in 2006 for Altrincham and became Executive Member for Adult Social Services in November 2007, a position he still holds.

He is a member of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority and was heavily involved in finalising the largest waste PFI contract in Europe. He sits on the Governing Boards of Altrincham College of Arts and Oldfield Brow Primary School. He is a Director on the Boards of the Oldham Coliseum and Contact Theatre.

His interests include the theatre, classical music and Naval History.

Both the Mayor and Consort look forward to their year in office and representing and serving residents, organisations and groups in the Borough.

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Mayoral Insignia

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Mayor's Charity

The Mayor of Trafford Councillor Mrs Patricia Young and her Consort Councillor Michael Young have chosen the YOU Project and Genie Networks as their Mayoral charities and will be organising and leading fund raising events to support these very deserving local charities.

Past Mayors

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Trafford Coat of Arms

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