Cllr Yinka Adeniran is the Labour Councillor for Charles Dickens Ward in Portsmouth and was elected in May 2022. Yinka is Labour’s Spokesperson for Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, where she helps drive up standards in local health and social care services. Yinka is also a member of the Licensing Committee, which is a regulatory committee that issues licences for everything from taxis, to pubs and restaurants. 

Outside of formal councilor roles, Yinka is a registered Manager and runs a Care Agency (Ultimate Care Agency Limited), providing relief and cover staff to care homes and also a registered Social Worker. Yinka is a longstanding activist in Buckland and a member of Unite the Union. Yinka is an active trade Unionist. 

Yinka runs ward advice surgery on every second Wednesday of the month excluding August from 11:00 – 12:30 at the Buckland Housing Office, 57 – 61 Kingston Rd, Portsmouth, PO2 7DP

Yinka can be contacted via: 

Mobile:  07818 – 427701

Email: Cllr.Yinka.Adeniran@portsmouthcc.gov.uk