Biography

Darren Jones is a trainee commercial solicitor, political campaigner and newspaper columnist living and practicing in Plymouth, Devon.

Working with the award winning national law firm Bond Pearce LLP Darren works as part of an all service commercial team acting for some of the country’s leading companies on a range of commercial issues.

As a former Parliamentary Candidate Darren is extensively engaged in the Labour Party and in the Plymouth community, having additional political interests in the trade union and co-operative movement as well as a number of issues based apolitical campaigns right across the South West.

Darren was formally a Governor of the University of Plymouth, a community Governor of the Plymouth NHS Hospitals Trust and the President of the University of Plymouth Students’ Union as well as acting as the Chair of Governors for an inner city primary school and a Director of a community organising charity. He chairs the South West regional campaign, Unity South West.

Darren is also a newspaper columnist with the Plymouth Evening Herald, writing on issues relevant to the people of Plymouth every week in his column ‘Real Plymouth’.

Darren is a member of the Chartered Management Institute, with postgraduate qualification in Leadership and Management, and has extensive strategic experience working at board level for some of the country’s largest public sector organisations, as well as a number of smaller third and private sector businesses, and brings an international approach from his experiences in Europe, China and the USA.

In his spare time Darren likes to play tenor sax, drink Plymouth Gin and cook for his friends. He tries to play sport but invariably fails.

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(*from September 2011)