Contacts

The Management Committee is elected at the Annual General meeting and consists of:

• Three Moderators, each elected for three years, each serving as Presiding Moderator for one year;
• Secretary, Treasurer, Journal Editor and three others (with powers to co-opt); and
• one representative appointed by CHRISET, the charitable Trust which administers the finances of CHRISM.

The current incumbents of these positions are

Rob Fox (Presiding Moderator 2009-10)

Rob is currently on a two year secondment from from HM Revenue & Customs (note the emphasis!) to the States of Jersey, helping to introduce Goods & Services Tax. He is thoroughly enjoying being there purely for tax reasons! A keen runner and product of the Northern Ordination Course, he is part of the ministry team in the team parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester, living in neighbouring Stalybridge with his wife Louisa and two grown up children.

Pauline Pearson (presided 2008-9)

Pauline is a former health visitor, now an academic at Northumbria University and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is married, with two daughters. She is one of the lively band of MSEs in the North East, based within the Diocese of Newcastle.

Margaret Joachim (presided 2007-8)

Margaret is a senior manager at a computer services company and is very much at the centre of the current trend for businesses to outsource their IT services. She lives in West London with her husband Paul and is an MSE in London Diocese.

Catherine Binns (Secretary)

Catherine was ordained Priest in the Diocese of Manchester in the summer of 2008 and is a Nurse Practitioner in the neo-natal unit of one of the regions leading maternity hospitals.

Susan Cooper (Treasurer)

Susan took over as Secretary from Phil Aspinall at the 2006 AGM, and was translated to Treasurer in 2007. She lives in Harrow, works in London for the Government Actuary’s Department advising overseas regulators and supervisors of insurance companies, is a Reader in the Church of England and member of General Synod.

Mike Rayner (Journal Editor)

Mike is a researcher into the effects of foodstuffs on health and an advisor to both voluntary and government bodies. He works at the University of Oxford and also lives in that fair city.

Membership Secretary

Temporarily vacant. Enquiries should at present be made to Susan Cooper, or Editor of "Ministers-of-Work", Mike Rayner.

Paul Romano

Paul is Chief Solicitor to Glasgow City Council (his workload has just increased with the award of the 2014 Commonwealth Games to the city). He is an ordained MSE in the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Phil Aspinall

Phil is a risk management consultant providing process safety, health and environmental support and training to the chemical, pharmaceutical and oil & gas industries world-wide. After 25 years with Courtaulds, he now works for Amey VECTRA, based in the Solihull office. Phil was ordained an Anglican priest in 1990 in Coventry diocese, and has a strong commitment to developing work focussed ministry, lay and ordained. He is a member of the IMA, ICF and CIPL.

Martin Dryden (Webmaster)

Martin has worked in financial services administration all his working life and is currently a non-executive director at Mourant International Finance Administration Limited in Jersey. He is an Anglican deacon in the parish of St Clement, Jersey. He and his wife Sue have one son who is currently away studying for a three year fine art degree.