Metro mayor to chair board of charity trustees

The West of England’s metro mayor has a new job – the chair of the board of trustees at the League Against Cruel Sports.

Dan Norris’s unpaid role will see him chair meetings of the trustees that oversee the animal welfare charity.

Mr Norris, who was elected to be the metro mayor for an area covering all of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset in May 2021, was coopted onto the board of trustees of the League in April, and within six months has now been voted in as chair.

The Labour politician has a long track record of campaigning against issues the League Against Cruel Sports has led on, most notably hunting with dogs. He was a leading figure in the West Country in the campaign to get fox hunting banned in the early 2000s.

Mr Norris said: “I am immensely proud to become chair of the League Against Cruel Sports. Their work is hugely impressive.”