Who we are

David Hancock

David has been a Wolverton resident since January 2006 and works as a Sustainable Energy and Education Consultant for The National Energy Foundation at Knowlhill, Milton Keynes. He has a degree in Urban Policy and Race Relations and a Masters degree in Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies. David is keen to ensure that community development projects empower local people through an inclusive and participative approach.

Maggie Pemberton

Maggie began her working career as a junior school teacher in rural Canada after gaining a degree in English Literature from McMaster University. Upon settling in the UK some years later she worked with the health service in Scotland, became a school governor and later friend of her children's local secondary school in Wolverton. She has worked for two national charities: Relate and the Citizen's Advice Bureau, as an adviser, and has also been the public relations and fundraising co-ordinator for a Canadian charity. Maggie is currently involved in local health issues in her position with NHS direct.

Roger Kitchen

Roger is a Wolverton resident who has been involved in community development for more than thirty years first as a neighbourhood community worker with Milton Keynes Development Corporation on their earliest new housing areas in the 1970s. Latterly he was co-founder and General Manager for 11 years of The Living Archive. He is now an independent community consultant. Roger's skills include engaging communities in decision-making and visioning, project design and management, successful bid writing, oral history training and digital archiving.

Brian Pemberton

Brian has been a Wolverton resident for 22 years. After gaining a BA from Oxford University and an MA from McMaster University in Canada, Brian embarked on a career in marketing and public relations. For many years he ran his own marketing consultancy in Milton Keynes. In 2002 Brian combined his marketing expertise with his passion for animal welfare when he became a Director at the Ontario SPCA in Canada. He now works for the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare.

Margaret Eyres

Margaret has lived in Wolverton, with her husband and two children, for 28 years. She works as a Curriculum Assistant in the Arts Faculty at The Open University and from home as a massage therapist.

She loves good food and is passionate about cooking which her father who trained as a chef instilled in her. She believes it's important that food should be ethically and safely farmed both for the consumer and the environment, and then simply prepared with no 'additions'. She also believes that good food and good nutrition should be accessible by everyone.