Cllr Colin Phillimore elected as Mayor for 2025/26
Cllr Colin Phillimore is the new Mayor of Basingstoke and Deane following a Mayor Making ceremony at the Civic Offices last night (Thursday 8 May).
Cllr Phillimore was first elected as a borough councillor in 2015, representing the Overton, Laverstoke and Freefolk ward which later became Whitchurch, Overton and Laverstoke.
He will represent the borough at events during the year while promoting his charity appeal which will be supporting the Whitchurch Community Swimming Pool and St Michael’s Hospice.
Cllr Phillimore said: “I am really pleased to be the Mayor of Basingstoke and Deane for 2025/26. It is a serious role, steeped in history and I am honoured to be chosen to serve.
“Having lived in the area all of my life I have witnessed great changes, but my focus is, and always will be, the people in the communities that we serve. I am looking forward to getting out around the borough and meeting as many of them as possible during the year.”
Cllr Phillimore has lived in the borough of Basingstoke and Deane all his life, either in Overton or Whitchurch and can trace his family history back to 1600 in Steventon.
He attended Overton C of E Primary School and later Queen Mary’s Grammar School in Basingstoke. After leaving school he had several local jobs, before settling on a career in accountancy. He has worked as an accountant in the motor trade for the last 40 years.
Cllr Phillimore’s charity appeal for 2025/26 will support two local charities that are very close to his heart.
The Whitchurch Community Swimming Pool, which aims to bring the pool located at Testbourne School back into operational use for the community.
St. Michael’s Hospice which supports local people with a life-limiting illness, facing the end-of-life, or experiencing bereavement by providing free, compassionate, palliative support and specialist care to patients either at the hospice or at home.
The Deputy Mayor for Basingstoke and Deane during 2025 to 2026 is Cllr Jacky Tustain.
More information on the Mayor of Basingstoke and Deane is on the council’s website www.basingstoke.gov.uk/mayor
