Britwell and Langley Foxborough get up to £20m each over ten years, and the boards that decide how it is spent must confirm membership by 28 August. How to join.

Two Slough neighbourhoods stand to receive up to £20 million each over the next decade, and the community boards that will decide how that money is spent have a little over two weeks to confirm who sits on them.

Rob Deeks has been appointed chair of the Pride in Place Britwell Board and Jessica Theisinger chair of the Pride in Place Foxborough Board, following interviews with council representatives, members of the local community, young people and local MPs. (Slough Borough Council, 4 August 2026) Recruitment to the boards themselves is still open, and the council says the details will be presented to government by the end of August.

That end-of-August date is not a soft target. Under the government’s programme rules, the 40 neighbourhoods named in March 2026, Britwell and Langley Foxborough among them, must confirm finalised board membership to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government by 28 August 2026, along with a record of the community engagement done so far and any proposal to change the default boundary of the neighbourhood. Their ten-year Pride in Place Plan is then due by 26 February 2027. (MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme prospectus)

Pride in Place key dates for Britwell and Langley Foxborough: places named 20 March 2026, council briefing 4 June 2026, chairs appointed August 2026, board membership confirmed 28 August 2026, ten-year plan submitted 26 February 2027

What the money is, and what it is not

Pride in Place is the government’s flagship communities programme, worth up to £5.8 billion over ten years across 284 communities in the UK. Each selected place is offered “up to £20 million funding and support” over a ten-year period. Slough was awarded two places when the third tranche of 40 was announced on 20 March 2026, joining the 244 already in the programme.

The council has been more cautious about the headline number than the prospectus is. Its own explanation of the award said investment “could total several million pounds over the coming years, with support potentially continuing for up to 10 years”, and described the programme as “not a one off injection of cash”. The council ran an online briefing for interested residents on 4 June. (Slough Borough Council, 22 May 2026)

It is also separate from the Pride in Place Impact Fund, a smaller pot of £1.5 million for physical projects across the whole borough, of which £250,000 was opened to community groups in February.

Who is allowed on the board

The rules are unusually prescriptive, and they are the reason the deadline matters to residents rather than only to officers.

A board must be resident-led, with over half of its members living or working in the neighbourhood. It must contain more residents and people who live or work in the area than it does elected representatives. It must include the relevant local MP and at least one ward councillor. The chair must be independent, and appointed and approved by both the local MP and the council.

The government’s prospectus asks chairs to look beyond the usual names, and lists the groups it expects to see: local charities, faith groups, youth groups and social clubs; key local employers, housing providers and co-operatives; sports clubs, heritage groups and arts organisations; and anchor institutions such as schools, colleges and health providers.

Both new chairs come from that world rather than from the council. Rob Deeks is chief executive of Together as One, the Slough charity formerly known as Aik Saath, which runs youth-led peer mentoring and conflict resolution. He said the appointment was “a huge honour and a responsibility I take very seriously”, and that the approach would be “simple: listen carefully, work hard and deliver. We want residents to see real progress and feel the benefits of this investment in their everyday lives.”

Jessica Theisinger is headteacher of Foxborough Primary School. She said it had been “both exciting and heartening to see so many residents and community stakeholders expressing an interest in joining the board”, and called the funding “a real opportunity to invest in the people, places and ideas that will make a lasting difference for local residents”.

Councillor Wal Chahal, leader of the council, said the programme “may be administered by us here at the council but at its core the project is about long-term, community-led change”.

What it means for you

If you live or work in Britwell or in the Foxborough area of Langley, the board being assembled this month is the body that will write a plan setting out where up to £20 million goes over the next ten years, within nine themes the programme sets out: regeneration, high streets and heritage; housing; work, productivity and skills; cohesion; community power; health and wellbeing; transport; safety and security; and education and opportunity. (MHCLG, list of indicative interventions) The plan is due in February, so the decisions that shape it are being taken now.

Anyone wanting to join a board or get involved should email britwellfoxboroughplace@slough.gov.uk. The council’s Pride in Place page for Britwell and Foxborough carries the recruitment pack for both the chair and board expressions of interest.

Two caveats worth holding on to. The £20 million is a ceiling, not a cheque: the prospectus says “up to”, and the money is released against an approved plan over a decade. And the boundary of each neighbourhood is not final either, since boards can propose changes to the default area by the same 28 August deadline, which decides whose streets are inside the programme and whose are not.

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