He currently also volunteers for Caritas and Cafod, the Catholic Bishop’s Conference Agencies. His particular focus is on finance, strategy, risk, and governance.

Stephen is married with children, two grown up and two at school. He enjoys sports and has completed marathons, is a qualified skipper, and plays golf.  Stephen is also a Crisis at Christmas volunteer.

A member of the House of Lords from 2006 to 2014, he took a major interest in welfare issues, including benefit changes. He was the Bishop of Warrington, in the Liverpool diocese, from 1996 to 2000 and then Bishop of Ripon and Leeds until retirement in 2014. During that time he chaired the Church of England’s Stewardship Committee and its Remuneration and Conditions of Service Committee, and was a member of its Finance Committee.

Since 2014, he has lived in Whitley Bay, as an assistant bishop in the diocese of Newcastle. For part of this time, he acted as chair of the Trustees of the Newcastle West End Foodbank, and he chairs the Trustees of ‘Together Newcastle’, a joint venture of the Church Urban Fund and the diocese. He is married with three adult children.

She currently works for the national charity Jubilee+ helping churches of all denominations care for the poorest in our communities, as well as overseeing social action at King’s Church Hastings and Bexhill (which includes Hastings Foodbank).

Natalie is the co-author of The Myth of the Undeserving Poor (2014) and A Church for the Poor (2017).

Before taking up his current role he oversaw the company’s global charitable programmes, including major initiatives in malaria eradication, empowering women in developing nations, and promoting STEM education.

He is a member of the Surrey Business Leaders Forum. A modern languages graduate and keen traveller, Robert lives in Bentley, Hampshire, and is married to Harriet, who wrote the first ever Alpha Course cookbook for Holy Trinity Brompton. They have three daughters and are active members of the local church, including hosting the Marriage Course.

She has worked for the last 25+ years in the UK and internationally as a trainer/speaker on social justice and race issues.  She is also an experienced administrator, team leader, projects and events manager.  She speaks on numerous issues, which include the following; diversity awareness, youth work, sexuality, singleness and politics.

Bev currently works as a freelance consultant, project manager, speaker and lecturer.  Previous to this Bev was the p/t Administrator for Amott Baptist Church while they were interregnum for four years, Project Development Officer for Churches’ Commission for Racial Justice (two year contract) and the Director of Evangelical Christians for Racial Justice for four years.  Other employers have included secondments to Evangelical Alliance and Christian Socialist Movement, Youth for Christ, Oasis Trust and W&T Avery Ltd Senior Banking Clerk/Accounts Clerk for seven years.

Bev enjoys genealogy research, keeping fit and singing for recreation.

Previously Paul was a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College focusing on viral infection and vaccine design. He also held roles in political parties both in his native Northern Ireland and later in Great Britain, working on policy and campaigns around peacebuilding and poverty reduction.

He is married to Nicola, a Methodist minister, and they have two wonderful primary school-aged children.

Louise is deeply concerned about social justice, and wanted to join the board so she could be part of the Trussell Trust’s work to actively challenge the structural causes of poverty. As a teacher of ethics, she’s looking forward to putting that into practice as the charity works towards ending the need for food banks.

Following her first trustee meeting, Louise is really warmed by the commitment and energy of the team and looking forward to being part of an organisation that’s working to change things for the better.