Councillor Max Boyce
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The West Chesterton Team
18 Springfield Road,
Cambridge CB4 1AD
01223 358 292 (landline)
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I became involved in politics while at university here in Cambridge, by helping in both the General Elections of 1974. After graduating (1976), I did a PGCE in Leeds (popping back to Cambridge to help -- and vote -- in the parliamentary by-election that autumn) then worked for a while just outside Basildon as a teacher. Deciding that teaching wasn't for me, I landed a job at the British Antarctic Survey, leaving Essex on the same day as Jim Callaghan called the 1979 General Election. In 1980, I started Focus on West Chesterton, which led a couple of years later to the election of Mark Hayes by the enormous margin of 1 vote.
I took a break from politics for family life between 1983 and 1989, returning to help Ian Nimmo-Smith get elected by the slightly more comfortable majority of 11 in 1990. I was then asked to be David Howarth's agent for the General Election (which eventually happened in 1992), and I spent the next few years organising the party's campaigning in Cambridge - with quite a lot of help, it should be said -- that culminated in our taking control of the City Council in 2000.
I got elected to the City Council in 2003, after having organised 10 successive 're-elect' campaigns in West Chesterton. I was re-elected in 2004, then again in 2006, and again in 2010. I am now Chair of the Group, and about to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Focus on West Chesterton.
By profession I'm a software engineer. My other interests include folk music, photography, badminton and crosswords.
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