General Synod Election Candidates 2026

GS Address

Who am I?
I’ve spent the last eleven years working with the
Buckingham Area Team as an Area Dean for rural
mission and development. This work has allowed
me to work closely with communities and mentor
ministers to explore pioneering mission work in
rural areas, develop new strategies and reorder
resources. Since being in the diocese, I have also
held other posts simultaneously, including advisory
work on rural and disability with the DAC, CMD
training, mediation work and specialist pastoral
care with parishes in distress. I am also on the
board of Governors at Cuddesdon theological
college, helping to influence the training of our
future clergy. I remain on several national rural,
disability and environmental groups.

What’s important to me?
For seven of those years, I have diligently served on General Synod.
During that time, I have not only invested my energy in good debate but also took
significant action to try and make positive change, including a successful campaign
to allow legal debate and voting from the online zoom platform during the covid
pandemic. This was critical for members like me who are immunocompromised or
others who were simply are unable to attend physically, this continues to this day.
More recently in response to our national biodiversity crisis I delivered a Private
Members Motion to challenge our Church Commissioners to reconsider their land
portfolio to help respond to the current ecological emergency. I based this on our
commitment from 1990 where the Anglican Consultative Council declared the fifth
mark of mission: To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and
renew the life on earth. And I also saw it as a wonderful opportunity for the church to
be leading light in practical land resurrection and a brighter future.
Finally, making the church assessable to all is extremely important to me, so I am
committed to equality for everyone, at all levels and roles within the church,
regardless of gender, disability, ethnicity, socio-economic status, mental health or
sexuality. As a physical ably challenged priest I have spent a lot of my ministry
breaking down barriers and helping to clear the way for others to follow. It has been
important to me to ensure we care for our vulnerable ensuring a fair and capable
procedure for all.

What can I take to Synod for you?
Despite the decline in church attendance, spirituality is always on the agenda, there
is still a place for God here, therefore it remains critical that we ensure our church is
the best equipped it can be to offer a future for all believers. Once again, I feel called
to serve on General Synod for this exact reason. On your behalf I will take my faith

and commitment to challenge, offer my time and energy to seek the right answers
and finally my call of over 25 years of experience in ordained ministry across four
different dioceses to help initiate a future of hope. Thank you so much for taking the
time to read my statement, if you want to ask further questions, I would be delighted
to hear from you.
‘Let us stir up one another to love and do good works’ Hebrews 10:24

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