Meet Martyn
Business owner, long-term carer, community campaigner and independent candidate working to give Clacton a stronger local voice.
Clacton.org Is About More Than One Election
My aim is to build a lasting community hub that helps local people, supports good causes, promotes Clacton and makes it easier for residents to be heard.
Clacton.org should serve the whole community.
I own Clacton.org, but my long-term ambition is not to make this website all about me. I want it to become a trusted local hub where residents can speak, find support, discover local organisations, promote local businesses and see the positive work happening across Clacton.
The election has created a reason for people to visit, but the website has a much bigger future. I want it to keep growing after polling day and become a practical resource shaped by the people who live and work here.
Advocating for elderly and disabled people.
My work through Mobility UK is rooted in lived experience. I spent most of my life helping to care for my mum after her strokes, and I saw how difficult daily life can become when people cannot access the right support, equipment or information.
Mobility UK focuses on practical support, clearer information and stronger advocacy for elderly people, disabled people and carers. The work also keeps me in direct contact with the everyday barriers people face, from transport and mobility equipment to benefits, healthcare and social isolation.
Lived experience
Understanding the pressure faced by disabled people, elderly people and family carers.
Practical support
Helping people understand their options and find useful services, products and information.
Speaking up
Challenging systems that are confusing, inaccessible or failing the people they should support.
Ideas are easy. Making them happen matters.
I am also the owner of Another Brilliant Idea, a business built around helping people move from an idea to something real.
My background includes building businesses, developing websites, branding, marketing, direct mail, digital systems and finding practical ways to solve problems. I enjoy taking a complicated idea, removing the jargon and working out what needs to happen next.
Family first. Always.
I work hard and have plenty of ideas, but family is at the centre of my life. I am very happily married, have five children and seem to have collected several honorary children along the way.
This is me
I enjoy good food, family time and not taking myself too seriously.
My kids
They are adults now, but they will always be my babies.
My amazing wife
Olga is positive, supportive and the person who keeps me grounded.
My dogs
I have always loved dogs. Walking them is also a great way to meet good people.
My favourite ever photo of Mum.
This is my mum, Margaret, making tea. It is my favourite photo because tea in our home usually meant family, visitors and conversation.
Mum raised six children as a single parent. She had a stroke when I was 11, but continued working as a hairdresser and somehow kept all of us going. Later strokes caused paralysis on her right side and ended her career.
I helped care for her for almost all my life, around 42 years. That experience shaped my commitment to elderly and disabled people, carers and families struggling to navigate systems that should support them.
She was the strongest person I have ever known. I miss her, but everything I am trying to build carries something of her strength and kindness.
This is a community project, not a finished product.
Clacton.org will only become genuinely useful by listening to the people who live, work and volunteer here. Tell me what matters, what is missing and what this website should do next.
A Normal Working Person, Not A Career Politician
I am a husband, father of five, business owner and long-term family carer. My life has involved the same pressures faced by millions of ordinary people, including earning a living, supporting a family, dealing with public services and helping relatives when they need you.
I have spent years building businesses and projects from the ground up. That means solving problems, taking responsibility when something goes wrong and finding practical ways forward rather than simply talking about what somebody else should do.
I am not backed by a political party, wealthy donors or a national organisation. I created Clacton.org because I believe local people deserve somewhere independent that listens to them and works for the community throughout the year.
My approach is simple: listen properly, tell people the truth and concentrate on what can genuinely make a difference.
Family
A husband and father of five who understands the pressures faced by working families.
Long-Term Carer
Years of personal experience supporting a disabled family member and dealing with health, care and mobility services.
Business Owner
Practical experience creating projects, employing people, serving customers and managing real financial responsibility.
Independent
No party whip, political headquarters or major donor deciding what I am allowed to say.
Work Based On Real Life
My experience comes from running organisations, helping disabled people, supporting family members and dealing directly with the systems people rely on.
Mobility UK
I founded Mobility UK to help disabled people, carers and families find practical information, equipment, advocacy and support. The work grew from my own experience as a long-term carer and from seeing how difficult essential systems can be to navigate.
Business Experience
Through Another Brilliant Idea and other projects, I have worked with businesses, developed services, solved commercial problems and learned what it takes to turn an idea into something that works in the real world.
Building New Projects
I am used to starting with a problem, researching it, building a solution and improving it as people use it. That is the same practical approach I want Clacton.org to bring to local issues.
Organisations I Am Building
These organisations show the practical work behind my background and the experience I bring to Clacton.org.
Mobility UK
Supporting disabled people and carers with mobility, equipment, information, advocacy and practical help.
Another Brilliant Idea
Developing businesses, services and practical ideas that solve problems and create new opportunities.
More Than An Election Website
Clacton.org is intended to become a permanent community hub that helps residents, good causes, businesses and local organisations work together.
Your Voice
Give local people a clear place to raise issues and build visible community support for action.
KIND
Bring people, volunteers and businesses together to provide practical help to local residents and good causes.
Promote Clacton
Support local events, attractions, organisations and businesses while helping residents discover what is available.
Stay Accountable
Provide clear updates about issues raised, action taken, money received and what has been achieved.
My Connection To Clacton
My family has had strong links to Clacton for around twenty years. Family members live locally, children in the wider family attend local schools and Clacton has become an important part of our family life.
I am not interested in appearing during an election and disappearing afterwards. Clacton.org is being built as a permanent platform that remains useful whether I win an election or not.
A permanent local platform, not a temporary campaign website
Regular contact with residents, organisations and local businesses
Practical support for local issues, projects and good causes
Clear updates so people can see what has happened after they contact us
A commitment to listen to everyone, regardless of how they vote
Clacton Should Come Before A Political Party
As an independent, I can judge each issue on what is best for Clacton. I do not have to defend a party decision, follow a party whip or put political headquarters ahead of the people I am supposed to represent.
Let Us Build Something Useful For Clacton
You do not have to agree with me about everything. Clacton.org welcomes everyone who wants to improve the area, support local people and make sure the community is properly heard.