Sarah Edwards has lived in Ealing for 12 years. She is employed by a charity as co-ordinator of a national service for victims of crime. She has been an active campaigner for many years on a range of social-justice and environmental issues. Edwards was a founder member of a recycling co-op in west London and has been a union rep. In recent years, she has been particularly involved in campaigns to support local services, stopping Heathrow expansion, protecting local green spaces and ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.