Mark Ereira-Guyer has lived in Bury St Edmunds since 1993 with his family and two poodles. He runs his own charity consultancy business and has two teenage children, one at university in London and one in her GCSE year. For 15 years he was a councillor on St Edmundsbury Borough Council and, more recently, on Suffolk County Council. He is the Green and Independent spokesperson on children, schools and young people's issues. Ereira-Guyer has a track record of getting things done that are important to people's lives such as improving the environment, getting new safety measures and pedestrian crossings, initiating community litter-picking campaigns and sorting out traffic problems.