Personal Life

Mark Spencer is a local farmer and a businessman.  He and his family have lived in the Sherwood Constituency for four generations, at Lambley, on the urban fringe of the City of Nottingham.  Born in 1970 Mark attended Lambley Primary School and Col Frank Seely School in Calverton.  He then qualified at Shuttleworth Agricultural College in Bedfordshire, before joining the family farm business. A former dairy farm, the business has developed and now employees around 50 local people, growing potatoes, vegetables and producing free range eggs, beef and lamb which are sold at Spring Lane Farm Shop.  Mark has always actively supported the local and wider community and Mark is a past Chairman of the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs.