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Ian Parsons - 01491 672312 (Chair)
Ian joined the council in 2013, having moved into Upper Basildon in 2007. Ian, now retired from teaching in a number of local secondary schools, is involved in the production of the Country Neighbour. His interests include old motorcycles, local history and walking.
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Sarah Barnes - 01491 671978
Sarah moved to Lower Basildon in February 2007 from Esher and joined the council in 2011. She is currently working in Contact Centre IT as a project manager. She has a keen interest in the countryside is a qualified bee keeper having attended many courses at BCA. Her hobbies include horse riding and watching West Ham. She is known to attend the odd quiz and is an avid cinema goer. She loves living in Lower Basildon and helping out where possible.
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Oliver Chadwyck-Healey - 01491 671556 (Vice Chair)
Oliver moved to Upper Basildon in June 2016. A food enthusiast both personally and professionally, he enjoys growing vegetables in the garden and cooking for friends and family. Most weekends he can be found taking his two young daughters to the playground at the Village Hall.
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Geoff Couchman - 01491 672412
Geoff joined the council in 2013 after moving from Bristol to Upper Basildon. He is married with 2 children and four grandchildren. He is interested in travel and most sports, playing regularly at Goring & Streatley Golf Club. He is also a member of Goring Gap Rowing Club. He is retired now but previously worked as a UK sales director for a FTSE 100 company.
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Elaine Cox - 01491 671532
Elaine joined the council in 2012. She lives in Bethesda Street and her main interest is the preservation of the rural nature of the village. Basildon lies in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and she is keen to retain green verges, spacious gardens, hedges as boundaries, gravel as driveways, and to reduce intrusive exterior lighting. She also helps the parish council occasionally with some public rights of way matters, as her job is with the countryside section of West Berkshire council. She qualified as a geologist, and her other main interest is music (violin) and church choral singing in all its aspects.
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Trish Kilgour Before moving to Upper Basildon in late 2022, Trish was very involved in community life in Cheshire with a keen interest in supporting community activities and, working with the Civic Society, review of planning applications that affected listed properties or located heritage areas. Trish is married with a grown up family & fox red labrador 'Stanley'. A keen gardener, her interests also include theatre, Bridge & improving her spoken French. |