Security, facilities and waking watch services in Milton Keynes.

Ashridge Group is a family-owned security company based just outside Milton Keynes. Our head office and 24/7 control room are in Soulbury, about 8 miles from the sites we look after for Walton Community Council, and six SIA-licensed response officers cover lock-ups, alarm response and patrols across Milton Keynes and nearby, every day of the year. We also provide facilities management and fire-trained waking watch. Our long-term sites have directly employed, BS 7858-vetted teams.

Local clients include Walton Community Council since 2021 and Dawsongroup since 2024. In all, we work with more than 50 organisations around Milton Keynes.

Who you’ll deal with

Ashridge was set up in 2012 and is still family-owned. Emma Walker runs it as Group Managing Director and Mark Walker is Group Chairman. Emma regularly works on the frontline with our operational teams. “Clients rely on us most when things are difficult,” she told Business MK in April 2026.

We recruit our officers locally. Leon Grech, our Contracts Manager, manages our Walton Community Council contract from Soulbury.

What the work looks like

Most of our Milton Keynes work happens after your staff have gone home. Our officers lock up, answer alarms and check buildings, and the control room schedules every visit against a named officer. Each officer starts and ends a visit on our reporting app, which records the time and GPS location. If someone doesn’t check out, the control room is alerted. If an officer is running late, it sends the nearest available officer from the Milton Keynes team. Our response cars are fully electric, with hybrids as backup.

For Walton Community Council we’ve handled daily opening and locking-up since 2021, and when the council asks us to lock up at a different time, we do. Dawsongroup chose us in 2024 to secure two Milton Keynes sites, including its head office.

Warehouses, offices and building sites

If you run a warehouse near M1 junctions 13 or 14, an office on a business park or a building site in the city, the same control room and response team can cover it. We typically mobilise within 24 hours, often the same day. Where a building’s safety case requires temporary evacuation measures, our trained fire marshals provide waking watch until a permanent alarm is in place.

Event and venue security in Milton Keynes

On 5 September 2026 we provided five SIA-licensed officers and a supervisor for Walton Community Council’s open-air cinema. In 2026 we also covered a multi-day schools athletics event at Stantonbury.

We looked after Milton Keynes Theatre for seven years from 2019, when Ambassador Theatre Group appointed us for the pantomime season, with two to four officers on each show. The theatre reopened in July 2021 after 496 days closed during COVID, and in the year that followed our teams welcomed more than 360,000 guests across 380 performances.

Our event security team provides SIA-licensed door supervisors and stewards for conferences, exhibitions and public events across Milton Keynes, planned around your programme and risk assessment.