Friends of Buckingham

Dr. C. Brown 2006
Became a Friend of Buckingham for being a long-time local GP and for being involved with other local services including forming the League of Friends of Buckingham Hospital.

Mr. T. Merrick 2006
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his 24 years’ service as Bursar to the University of Buckingham.

M. B. Russell 2007
Became a Friend of Buckingham for the initiation of the Twinning Association with Mouvaux.

Mr. N. Bowerman 2008
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his long and assiduous service as a street cleaner.

Mrs. M. Parfitt 2008
Became a Friend of Buckingham for her work with the Young Carers and the Youth Club.

Mr. S. Wilkinson 2009
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his services to the Army Cadet force, representation on the Rifle Brigade and the cadets, to whom we gave the Freedom of the Town in masse in 2009.

Mr. & Miss. Connor 2009
Became Friends of Buckingham for their efforts in running the stables at Stowe and teaching large numbers of children, including those with disabilities, to ride horses.

Mr. & Mrs. Hall 2009
Became Friends of Buckingham for their work with the Royal British Legion, Buckingham Community Centre, and other charitable fundraising.

Mr. S. Heywood 2010
Became a Friend of Buckingham for running the Christmas Parade for over 20 years initially without the support of the Town Council.

Mr. S. Townsend 2013
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his work with the Church Holiday Club, Swan Community Hub, Job Club, Children’s Centre, Citizens Advice Bureau, Chapter 1 Housing Association and Milton Keynes Credit Union.

Ms. R. Hutt 2013
Became a Friend of Buckingham for her 35 years working for Social Services, local Secretary of Age UK/Age Concern, Trustee of Project Street Life and pastoral care related to Well St. Church.

Mr. K. Croxton 2015
Became a Friend of Buckingham for organising the Hospital Car Service, being the Chair of the Housing Association Chair and Trustee of Community Care North Bucks.

Mr. E. Grimsdale 2016
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his work as a local historian, teaching chemistry at the Royal Latin school for many years, pillar of two local choirs and being a founding member of the Access Group.

Mrs. L. Try 2017
Became a Friend of Buckingham for her services to Girl Guiding.

Mr. N. Stafford 2018
Became a Friend of Buckingham for 40 years’ service as a retained firefighter.

Mr. J. Barnett 2018
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his long service as Chairman of Buckingham Youth Club.

Mr. L. Weston 2019
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his work his organising a range of memorable
events in Buckingham, including for Armistice 100.

Mrs. S. Handley 2019
Became a Friend of Buckingham for her years of voluntary service organising community lunches and as Chair of Project Street Life.

Dr. Roger Harrington 2021
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his work on the Buckingham Alms-house charity and League of Friends of Buckingham Hospital.

Mrs. Beverley Stockill 2021
Became a Friend of Buckingham for her contributions to the local community through her work at the Buckingham Community Food Bank.

Mr. Mikey Dyson-Smith 2022
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his morale-boosting work through the pandemic.

Mr. Chris Mullis 2022
Became a Friend of Buckingham for all his work in setting up and managing the Buckingham Support Network during covid lockdowns in 2020 and 2021.

Mrs. Jennifer Manning 2022
Became a Friend of Buckingham for her work on the Buckingham Railway Walk Volunteers Group.

Mr. Tony Mayston 2023
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his many contributions to the town.

Mr. Simon Wells 2023
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his sterling work on developing North Bucks Carers.

Ms. Mary Simons 2023
Became a Friend of Buckingham for her work on developing the town’s Traders’ Association, her work with the Pontio Group, and the Fair Trade Steering Group.

Mr. Derek Croft 2023
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his many years of work at the Buckingham Secondary School.

Mrs. Rosemary Frohock 2023
Became a Friend of Buckingham for her help in standing in as Mace Bearer and for her sterling work with the Scout organisation.

Mr. Russell Cross 2023
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his years of service as Buckingham’s Town Crier.

Mr. Tony Allen 2024
Became a Friend of Buckingham for the time he has given to run several Couch to 5k groups and for establishing a men’s mental health walking/talking group.

Mr. Richard Watkins 2024
Became a Friend of Buckingham for his years of involvement with the Buckingham AED project and for his work as a Volunteer Community First Responder.