Manager John Reed and assistant manager Clive Freeman have both signed contracts with the club until the end of the 2011/2012 season.

He told the Advertiser: "Clive and I have put pen to paper now and are going to stay at Buxton until the end of 2011/2012. I'm loving my time at Buxton and I know Clive is.

"It is absolutely fantastic. It gives me time to make plans."

Mark Lees has been a key player since joining from New Mills. Despite turning down the offer of a contract with the club, Lees has pledged his future to Buxton.

Reed explained: "We tried our best to get him to sign a contract but he didn't want to. He said he just wanted to play for John Reed, which is a very nice thing to say.

"Make no mistake about it, he will get better and better. I have got a lot of time for him. He has got a wonderful approach for a young boy.

"As long as he got looked after financially by a club if he did make that step up, the lad would go with our blessing."

Another player who made a big impact last year was striker Jason Bradley, on loan from Sheffield Wednesday. He has since been released by Wednesday but he has not yet made a decision on which club to join.

"He has been released by Sheffield Wednesday and we've already offered him a contract," explained Reed.

"He has got an agent and is doing the rounds talking to other clubs. He's just leaving his options open a little bit.

"We were in there very quickly and I know there's been interest from one or two other non league clubs. At the end of the day, people must understand he was only just 18 when he came to us. Russ Wilcox (Sheffield Wednesday assistant manager) has said the improvement in the seven months he's been with us is incredible.

"He's been as good as gold for me and Clive. Even when he's been left on the bench, he still had a fabulous attitude.

"We've given him the option and he's been invited to pre season training which starts on June 26."

Former local player Shaun Doxey is also set to return to the club after leaving for Alfreton Town last summer.

Reed said: "I spoke to Shaun and he asked if there was still the option to come back. I told him the door was always open so he will be back for pre-season as well."

Making an appeal to local people to help the club out financially, Reed said: "Hopefully more people will come on board.

"That is the thing missing at the moment, we need someone to give Chris Brindley a hand.

"There's been a hell of a lot of teams that have been in our league this year that have got much bigger budgets.

"We need somebody to come and relieve a bit of pressure off Chris Brindley. I would appeal to anyone around Buxton who is interested to get involved and help Chris out.

"This is the perfect time (to get involved). If you think about the last three years, what a fantastic three years this club has enjoyed. Nobody could pick a better time.

"We got to the play off final but as I've always said, those situations come around very, very rarely. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we can't do it again, we are going to try our best.

"If you look at this year, we were 35 minutes away from Conference North football. It is great, we were very close and although we were quite a long away from Gateshead, I don't think we were from the other two, Fleetwood and Witton.

"It is a lot stronger league now than when I was with Harrogate.

"I think if we get three players to add to the squad, I'll be relatively happy.

"We have identified players in the positions where we are not as strong and its a case of chasing three players.

"We are going to keep our options open because everybody is chasing the same players.

"At the end of the day we'll just be happy if we can get two or three.

"I think we're quite fortunate because we have the nucleus of the team and they did extremely well last year.

"Just two or three additions and I think we can be one of a dozen teams chasing for those six spots.

"It's been an exciting league this year but it will be even better next year."

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