About Us
About Us
Chair: Allan Buckley
Allan and his wife Janet and have lived on Jefferson Garth since 1996. Allan came to Cumbria as the then County’s Deputy Director of Social Services. After retiring he was a Non Executive Director in local NHS services for ten years. He was a member of the County’s Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and Suicide Prevention Leadership Group. Allan was also on the boards of several local voluntary organisations, including Eden Valley Hospice, where he was Chair of the Board for six years.
Allan is a member of Keswick Athletic Club, where he was the club’s Safety Officer, and organiser of the Helvellyn and Skiddaw races. He retired from running in races when he was 72, but carried on running the fells with his border collie, Tess until last year.
Allan has a longstanding commitment to affordable housing. He have been a member of the boards of two housing associations: Ashiana in Rochdale, and Impact here in Cumbria. Both, like Greystoke Community Housing, were the result of local community activity.
Allan and Janet have always felt fortunate to live in Greystoke, with its strong and lively community spirit. He is sure that Greystoke residents will work together to develop affordable housing for people who live and work here.
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Business Secretary: Corrine Green
Corrine relocated to Greystoke in 2017 with her husband Steve from Edinburgh after a 20+ year career in IT in financial services including as a team leader, agile delivery lead and IT architect, amongst other things. She now runs a local web design and development business, and tries to get out fell walking as much as possible in between building websites (with limited success!).
Corrine leads on social media, communications, branding and our website.
Margot Dent
Margot moved to Greystoke in 2013, having lived in Culgaith for 16 years. Her career at this stage was in the Voluntary Sector starting with VAC, now ACT, Eden CVS, Cumbria Housing Trust, LA21, now Cafs. She was made redundant in 2016 and now works part time for Birds’ Bistro. She has a dog and loves walking reading and sewing
Margot at present helps with admin for the group.
Ian Forrest
Ian and his wife Liz have lived in Greystoke since retirement in 2000. Two of their three children and one granddaughter live locally.
After an apprenticeship in the drawing office of a Tyneside shipyard and a university degree in naval architecture, he spent the next 34 years in education, becoming head of a rural comprehensive school and later an H.M. inspector of schools, pre-Ofsted. Although mainly based in the UK, his first teaching post was in an East African school and his final job was in Germany, as a deputy chief Executive in the organisation that
ran schools for service personnel posted abroad.
Since moving to Greystoke Ian has renovated two houses, initially undertaking much of the work himself but increasingly calling on the skills and experience of local tradespeople, for whom he has a great regard.
Ian is passionate about energy efficient homes, having recently upgraded his bungalow to something approaching Passivhaus standards. Within the Affordable Housing group, he is leading our approach to flooding resilience.
Mike Bousfield
Mike is our camera shy, supportive parish council representative!
