The annual Mayor-Making Ceremony will take place in Bath Abbey on Saturday 5 June at 11 am, when Councillor Shaun McGall will become the 783rd Mayor to take office.

Shaun previously served the City as Deputy Mayor of Bath in 2004 and is currently the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Charter Trustees of the City of Bath. The Mayor’s Chaplain will be Rev Kieren Bourne, Senior Pastor, Living Springs Metropolitan Community Church, Bath.

One of Councillor McGall’s first civic duties will be to appoint Amy Williams as the first woman Honorary Freeman of the City of Bath following her gold medal victory in the Winter Olympics. Amy and three of her Olympic Team Members will be in the 200-strong procession which will leave the Guildhall at 10.40 am and walk along Northumberland Passage to meet with Bath Air Cadets Marching Band in Union Street. They will set off into Stall Street and then through Abbey Church Yard and into the Abbey to be given a rousing welcome by The University of Bath Chamber Choir.

The Mayor’s theme will be ‘Town and Gown’ because Councillor McGall came to Bath as a student, fell in love with the City and has been here ever since. Since graduating in 1993, he has spent his career working in further and higher education and he is currently a Learning and Teaching Development Officer at the University of Bath.

The new Deputy Mayor will be Councillor Richard Maybury, who has represented Lambridge Ward since 2007. He is particularly interested in the environment and currently sits on a cross-party sub-committee for sustainable buildings.

Everyone is welcome to attend the Ceremony in the Abbey, and that they need to be seated by 10.30 am.