Philip Welch was editor of the Mid Somerset Series of newspapers and their associated websites from 1997-2013. He is now a Wells City Councillor. He is the Chair of the Mendip Dementia Action Alliance, and member of the Wells Dementia Alliance, as well as the owner of Philip Welch PR Ltd. He is also a freelance photographer, Vice-Chair of Wells Civic Society, a broadcaster on GFM community radio, a director of Wells in Mosaic CIC, an organiser of Wells Soup and an Ambassador to the Wells Girlguiding movement.