Terri has been a councillor for Crouch Ward since 2002 and is also the Chairman of Noak Bridge Parish Council. Terri is currently Chairman of the Community and Well-Being Committee.

She is also a Basildon Council representative to the Basildon Community Transport Service, the Basildon Health and Well-Being Partnership and District Councils' Health and Well-Being Forum, the Local Councils' Liaison Group, the Patient and Community Reference Group for the Basildon and Brentwood Clinical Commissioning Group and Basildon Side By Side.

Previously, Terri was also a county councillor for the Laindon Park & Fryerns Division from 2009 to 2014.

If you are a resident of Crouch and would like to contact Terri, please email terri.sargent@members.basildon.gov.uk.

She also holds a residents surgery on the first Saturday of the month between 9:30am and 10:30am at Noak Bridge Village Hall, Coppice Lane, and the third Saturday of the month between 9:00am and 10:00am at Steepleview Hall, Willowfield (off Osier Drive).

Terri's ward colleague is Cllr Stuart Allen.