Gavin Harding

{{BLP sources|date=May 2015}}

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|honorific-prefix = Cllr

|name = Gavin Harding

|honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}}

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| office = Mayor of Selby

| term_start = 2015

| term_end = 2016

| predecessor = Rosie Corrigan

| successor = Steve Shaw-Wright

| office1 = Selby Town Councillor
for North Ward

| term_start1 = 2011

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|birth_name = Gavin Nigel Xavier Harding

|birth_date = 18 March 1974

|birth_place = Selby, West Riding of Yorkshire

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|party = Labour

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|education = Brayton High School

|alma_mater = Selby College

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Gavin Nigel Xavier Harding MBE (born 18 March 1974) is a British politician and academic who was mayor of Selby, North Yorkshire, England. He was the first person in the United Kingdom to become mayor while being formally diagnosed as having a learning disability.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gavin-harding-uks-first-mayor-with-a-learning-disability-appointed-in-selby-10268437.html|title=Gaving Harding: UK's first mayor with a learning disability appointed in Selby|newspaper=The Independent|date=21 May 2015|accessdate=23 May 2015}}

Harding grew up in Selby, and studied at Brayton High School and Selby College. He is a Labour councillor on Selby Town Council having lived in Selby most of his life representing Selby North ward. Harding has now been elected for his 3rd term as a councillor. He founded a self-advocacy group Voices for People and works for NHS England as a senior learning disability advisor.

Harding served as deputy mayor of Selby in 2014 before being appointed mayor the following year. In 2014, he was awarded an MBE.{{cite news|url=http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11277328.Councillor_and_academics_receive_Queen_s_Birthday_Honours/|title=Councillor and academics receive Queen's Birthday Honours|newspaper=York Press|date=13 June 2014|accessdate=23 May 2015}} He has been part of a committee looking into the progress of Winterbourne View, a private hospital condemned for its abuse of people with learning difficulties.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/29/winterbourne-view-few-learning-disabled-people-moved-out|title=Post-Winterbourne View : why have so few learning disabled people been moved out of residential units?|newspaper=The Guardian|date=29 October 2014|accessdate=23 May 2015}}

In 2019 Harding was included in the Shaw Trust "Power 100" list of the most influential disabled people for that year.{{cite web|url=https://disabilitypower100.com/project/gavin-harding-mbe/|title=Gavin Harding MBE|accessdate=5 December 2019}}