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Nicholas Brendan Buckley MBE (born April 1968) is a British charity worker and political candidate. He spent 15 years working with the homeless.
In 2011, he founded The Mancunian Way, a charity which fired him in 2020. However, following a public outcry, the board of trustees resigned and Buckley was reinstated.
Buckley's career with the Manchester City Council started as a youth intervention officer. [1] In 2011, Buckley's job as a Community Safety Co-ordinator, which he held during the 2011 Manchester riots, was terminated by the City Council due to budget cuts. He was offered an alternative position; instead of taking it, he took his severance and used it to found a charity named Mancunian Way, [1] [2] which worked to reduce antisocial behaviour [3] via prevention and intervention. [4]
In 2018, Buckley stood as an independent candidate in the local council elections for the Deansgate ward of Manchester. [5] Buckley received 164 votes in total, and did not gain office. The election was won by three Labour candidates. [6]
Buckley was recognized at the 2018 NW Charity Awards with the Small Charity Big Impact Award and at the 2019 SME News Finance Awards 2019, winning Greater Manchester Homeless Project of the Year. [7] While Buckley was CEO, the charity he founded was recognised as "Community Project of the Year award" in 2015. [8]
In 2019, Buckley, who spent 15 years working directly with the homeless, explained on BBC Radio that individuals handing out food to the homeless have unintended consequences, including preventing them from getting the necessary support and help to get off the street. [9] [10] Buckley criticized Lucy Powell, saying her "words would have a negative effect on teenagers from deprived backgrounds." [11] One of Buckley's projects, Change4Good, "placed 28 homeless or vulnerable individuals into employment" that year. [12] He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to young people and to the community in Greater Manchester. [13] [14] [7] [15]
In 2020, Buckley was the centre of a controversy linked to an article he authored and posted on Medium and shared with Mancunian Way staff and on the professional networking site LinkedIn. The article was critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, and was accused of upholding inequalities by those calling for his dismissal via an online petition. [16] The article was later taken down.
The trustees of Mancunian Way dismissed Buckley on 19 June 2020, announcing that the charity had severed their relationship with Nick Buckley's company BNB services Ltd. [17]
Buckley was reinstated after reaching a pre-lawsuit agreement with the existing trustees, which saw them step down en masse to be replaced by a new set of trustees. [18]
In March 2021, Buckley was announced as the Reform UK candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester. [19] In the ensuing contest that May, he won 2.69% of votes cast and came in fifth place. [20] [21]
In May 2023, Buckley announced his intention to stand as an independent candidate for the 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral election. [22]
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