The Society has waged many successful campaigns over the past 40 years.

The Society has previously had members on the Parish Council and its projects for the Millennium and the Queen’s Silver Jubilee include Millennium clocks being placed within the town, a time capsule being buried within Epping Forest and sponsoring commemorative leaflets and a notice board in Lords Bushes for Her Majesty the Queen's Golden Jubilee 

 It has donated thousands of pounds to local charities and worthy causes including the St John’s Church steeple repair fund, the Royal British Legion war memorial inscriptions, St Clare’s Hospice, The Motor Neurone disease Society, and local organisations.

Its fame has spread as far as New Zealand where, in an exhibition on Scott’s expedition to the Antarctic there is the metal container for cheese used on the fateful  expedition that was donated as a result of one of the Society’s members presenting it to Antarctic explorer George Lowe when he was a guest speaker at one of the Society’s meetings.

In October 2007 ‘February Snow’ by WALTER E. SPRADBERY  was at long last returned to Buckhurst Hill. On October 26th 2007 the painting was unveiled, (in its position above the main staircase), at Buckhurst Hill Community Association, Bedford House, by Caroline Friedman, Former Chairman of Buckhurst Hill Residents’ Society.
It is due to the efforts of BHRS, and especially to Caroline, that the painting has eventually been returned to the people of Buckhurst Hill.