Councillor Tanya Burch, Ceremonial Mayor of the City of Salford 2024 to 2025
Tanya Burch was born in Lviv, Ukraine, in November 1970 when Ukraine was a part of the USSR. She went to the primary and secondary school No75 in her hometown and in 1995 completed her Batchelor’s degree in Romano-Germanic Languages, including English, at Lviv State University. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tanya volunteered as an interpreter for numerous charities from English speaking countries to improve her command of English.
Even though she was raised an atheist, Tanya found her faith in Jesus Christ and started working for Christian Faith Ministries International, a UK based Assemblies of God church. In 1996 she was invited to visit the CFMI in Tameside, UK, where she met her handsome husband Phil. Having realised that they were soulmates, Phil and Tanya were married that very year. Now, 28 years later, they have been blessed with two beautiful daughters.
Passionate about her faith, Tanya graduated from Rhema Bible College in 2007 and now her family are members of !Audacious church.
Having moved to Salford in 2007, Tanya has been a Councillor for the ward of Ordsall for ten years and has just been re-elected. She takes her role very seriously and is committed to the prosperity and wellbeing of Ordsall residents. In 2023 she graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with an MBA with Distinction. Her dissertation was the research of employment opportunities in Media City UK for young people of Ordsall.
Tanya is overwhelmed with the honour and privilege to have an opportunity to be the Ceremonial Mayor of Salford, serving the city together with her husband as the Consort and one of her daughters as the Mayoress.
The Ceremonial Mayor has chosen to support the following charities:
St Ann’s Hospice - Little Hulton
This independent charity provides supportive and specialist palliative care services to people over the age of 18 from across Greater Manchester. It enables individuals with a life-limiting illness, their families, and carers to maximise the quality of their lives.
Care is given free of charge and is regulated by the Quality Care Commission. Provision includes in-patient, home care, day therapy, bereavement services and community services. The charity also provides educational training for other health professionals.
Royal Naval Association - Pendleton
The Royal Naval Association provides those with a link to the Royal Navy access to a life-long community of like-minded and supportive individuals. Our community provides companionship, resilience, comradeship and unity to anyone and everyone with a Naval story, supporting them through life's highs and lows.
The RNA in Pendleton is a family of current and former Naval Service personnel, and other ex-services personnel, relatives and supporters of our country's Armed Forces.
The RNA can offer help with getting support with anything from mobility issues, to advice on new technologies and getting online, to finding a community or social support system locally. Whatever the challenge, they are there to offer a helping hand in finding ways of making things easier for their members, whether they are still serving, working on civvy street or retired.
Whether catching up with friends at their regular social events, fundraising, advising on welfare and employment matters or just providing an arm around the shoulder, their natural willingness to help others stems from the tradition and camaraderie that life in the Royal Navy instils.
Membership is open to all serving or retired members of the Armed Forces and their family, friends, and supporters.
This page was last updated on 14 May 2024