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New Ambassadors move Buckinghamshire into pole position
POSTED ON June 18th, 2010
For immediate release – 18 June 2010
Three new business professionals have joined the Buckinghamshire Ambassadors network and will champion the County wherever their work takes them in the UK and across the globe.
Cllr David Polhill, the new President of the Buckinghamshire Ambassadors, welcomed Formula One driver Mark Webber, Dave Brieth, the Chief Executive of Beaconsfield based O-bit Telecom and Stephen Hayes, one of the UK’s most successful business entrepreneurs and the owner of Wasps RFC and Wycombe Wanderers Football Club, to support the work of the Ambassadors.
All three became Buckinghamshire Ambassadors, at a special presentation event on Thursday (17th June). Alex Pratt, the Chairman of BELP announced the newest trio of Buckinghamshire Ambassadors to join a network that promotes the County as one of the UK’s best locations to live, work and play, at The Stag in Mentmore.
All three men are exceptionally talented and motivated professionals, who join the Buckinghamshire Ambassadors, a network which epitomises the diversity of successful people who continue to make Buckinghamshire the Entrepreneurial Heart of Britain.
Chairman of BELP, Alex Pratt OBE, said: “Buckinghamshire is a wonderful County that’s the Entrepreneurial Heart of Britain. We’re fortunate to have many successful business leaders and high profile professionals who choose to live or work here and will champion Buckinghamshire wherever their careers take them. Success attracts success, and having Mark, Stephen and Dave join as Ambassadors will further support our aims to attract new businesses and jobs to Buckinghamshire.”
Following the presentation, Mark Webber said: “I’ve lived in Buckinghamshire since first arriving here from Australia to begin my quest to compete in Formula One and have raced for two F1 teams based in the county; Jaguar and my current team, Red Bull Racing. Although my job takes me all round the globe, I’m proud that this wonderful County has become my adopted home.
“It’s a great privilege to be invited to become a Buckinghamshire Ambassador and I’m delighted to accept this honour. I hope that I can help to promote the cause of the Ambassadors and support the important work they deliver for the people of Buckinghamshire.”
Buckinghamshire has over 100 Ambassadors, who through their commercial and professional work, promote and support the County. All Ambassadors are entrepreneurs, community leaders, volunteering sector figureheads and sports personalities, who champion the County locally, nationally and internationally.
ENDS//
Comments
Em
POSTED June 22nd, 2010
Congrates on this honour.My parents were Bucks born and bred. An area that always needs more support is ‘Young Carers ‘- a group of regional charities who work very hard with kids who have had to face too much. A lot of people get the wrong idea about the kind of kids who require this support. My son has had alot of help from them while i was facing end stage heart failure, then when i was critical for two months due to complications during /post surgery and in helping him cope with emotions he couldn’t bare to say to me.As i’m a single parent he felt more vonrable – they give patience and work with the kids to try to help them cope plus understand. Incredibly there was no other support avaliable, not even booklets to help kids understand .Here in Syke and Lochalsh we have a great Young Carers and each area has its own group -struggling to do the most they can with little funds and big hearts.
Rod Abbey
POSTED August 03rd, 2010
G’day Mark.
Congratulations on your wonderful year, I was born at Winslow, and lived in North Marston, both in Bucks, I now live in Welby NSW near Mittagong, thank you for given me hours of entertainment, over the past few years, you are a great Ambassador for the county of Bucks, as well as Australia.
Kind regards Rod
neil.mansfield
POSTED November 18th, 2010
Good to see our great king promoting the country side whether it be in England where he still lives or in his own country of Australia
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Hi Mark, I have been wondering for a long time if you are related to a family I worked for in Australia when we lived there in the 1970′s. I did the office work for a Mr. Webber of “Webber’s Garage” in a place called Murrumbeena, Victoria. He had a son called Phil Webber who was involved with racing too, and I would love to know if you are related to their family? I enjoyed working for them and was sad to leave and move on. Keep on climbing the podium in F.1. I always support you due to happy memories of knowing some of the Webber family at Webber’s Garage, Murrumbeena, who may or may not be your relatives, but it would be good to think they were or might be. Regards, Edith Daniels.
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Dear Edith – thank you for your message and sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We put some feelers out and found that the Webber’s you know in Murrumbeena do indeed have some interest in motorsport in Australia, however I’m afraid that they aren’t any relations of Mark and, strangely, they haven’t come across each other!