Three new Deputy Lieutenants announced

Anna Mudeka was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, and moved to Norwich in 1994. She now lives near Dereham with her family. She established a company, Tambai Promotions, through which she has worked in schools, festivals, businesses and throughout the community sharing
her rich heritage and love for Africa with people of all ages and abilities across the UK.    Anna is an accomplished musician and actress and has worked alongside many well-known names as well as touring her own one woman shows around the UK and beyond. She has received many awards over the years notably from CEO magazine, Africa’s Most influential Woman in Business and Government 2014, Norfolk Arts Awards for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts 2021, Euroknowledge Award for Business Women and Philanthropy 2023 and Wymondham High School Blue Plaque for inspiring future generations 2024.   Anna is also a Trustee of Norwich Theatre and sits on the Norfolk Black History Month Committee. She is Artistic Director of The African Community Choir of Norfolk. Anna founded her own charity The Mudeka Foundation, in 2011, which supports the education of children within seven schools in Zimbabwe. 

Mary Bolton was born and educated in Edinburgh, followed by Oxford University where she read French at St Hilda’s College.  She then worked in the London wine trade and in development aid project management in Cambridge before she moved to Norfolk in 1989 with her husband David.  They brought up their five children in the county and the younger three were at school in Norwich.  Given her husband’s involvement in the UK agricultural industry Mary has always taken the keenest interest in that sector and in the food industry generally. Her voluntary work has tended to focus on helping children and young people whose lives are disrupted by illness or disadvantage (notably Clic Sargent now Young Lives vs Cancer) and also on supporting community life, particularly through local church fundraising events.  She is currently Lead Ambassador in Norfolk for Cambridge Children’s Hospital for the East of England, fundraising to help build a specialist hospital to serve the region’s children. 

Victoria Keith was born in York and received her early education at The Bar Convent York and later attended Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset. She graduated from Reading University with a BSc Hons in Agriculture. After university, she spent a year working in Nigeria on Tsetse fly research.  Her professional career began in marketing as a Marketing Executive at Paul’s and Whites in Ipswich, followed by a move to Nottingham to work in the agrochemical industry as a Group Brand Manager. During this time, she travelled to South America, where she met her future husband, James Keith.  From 1985 to 1986, she worked as an Advertising Executive at Ogilvy and Mather in London. She then became Head of Marketing for a consortium of charities focusing on Payroll Giving from 1986 to 1987. After marrying in 1987, she moved to Norfolk and balanced market research jobs with running a small business offering domestic courses.  She served as a school governor at Swanton Morley Primary School for ten years and was actively involved in several Norfolk organizations, including Heritage House and the North West Norfolk Arts Society. She is also a member of the Staithe Singers.  Currently, she is a director of Swanton Morley Farms and The Organic Pig Company. She is a devoted mother of five children and a grandmother to three grandchildren.  Victoria opens her garden for NGS and St John’s Ambulance fundraising.