WEST WYCOMBE - Key Persons
Councillor Mrs June Pauline Smith, known locally as Councillor Mrs Vicki Smith, has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM), in the Queen's New Year Honours List 2021, for her services to the community of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.
Sharon has been awarded best Parish Clerk in Buckinghamshire by Bucks Association of Local Councils, and the late WDC Chairman Bill Bendyshe-Brown gave her an award for her outstanding work as a Parish Council Clerk because as he travelled round Wycombe District calling in at Parish Council meetings he came across Sharon ‘Clerking' for Piddington and Wheeler End Parish Council, Hambleden Parish Council and West Wycombe Parish Council, all at the same time on different days of the month! He was very impressed! She also worked for Lane End Parish Council covering for their Clerks maternity leave.
Vicki has been the instigator of many social and community activities, such as the Annual New Year's Day Walk. Starting in 2000, this has grown every year with as many as 150 adults, children and dogs walking through the parish's beautiful countryside - and always ending with tea and homemade cakes! She has also organised many coffee mornings, raising funds for the Florence Nightingale Hospice and Cancer Research UK.
Vicki Smith BEM became Chairman two years later and is the longest serving member of the Council. Michael Gerrard retired for a short time but was re-elected and held office until he died on 30th June 2005.