Sara is an accredited Baptist minister and until recently she has had a pioneering ministry on a large council estate near Portsmouth where she lived for 16 years. Sara is a trustee of Incarnate Network, NECN and Estates Evangelism Task
group. Sara works half time as development worker for CURBS, which resources, trains and supports children’s workers in urban and estate areas. Having recently moved to Looe in Cornwall Sara is spending a year of missional listening in this new context before embarking on pioneer ministry in Looe. Sara is married to Barney, also a Baptist minister, and they have four children.

Lynne Cullens was consecrated as Bishop of Barking in January 2022 after being Rector of Stockport and Brinnington. She is a member of the Church of England’s Selection Oversight Group, Estates Evangelism Task Group and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Housing, Church and Local Community.  A former CEO, Lynne was born in Ordsall, Salford and blogs on issues of culture and the Church at lynnecullens.com

Jonathan Macy is an Anglican Team Vicar in the Clockwork Orange Parish of Thamesmead and has been there since 2014. Prior to ordination he worked for about 15 years in various care settings, mainly with young adults with learning disabilities. He is married to Louiz and they have two children, Joel and Emma, except for the time at training college, they have always lived in inner-city contexts (SE London), loving the buzz of multi-cultural urban life, with all its joys and challenges.
Jonathan has a number of passions in his life. Other than God and family, he loves cheese, progressive rock and live concerts, watching football with his kids, the gym and swimming. He also has a passion for seeing thriving churches on estates and other areas of deprivation. He believes in a God whose heart is for the transformation of people, peoples and nations.
Alongside NECN, Jonathan is also the Southwark Diocesan Disability Adviser, as well as having a role in guiding Southwark curates through their curacies. Finally, He is on the Selection Oversight Group, a national body who look to develop the processes by which candidates are chosen for Anglican ordination.

Eunice Attwood is an ordained Methodist deacon and Church at the Margins Officer with the Methodist Church. Eunice brings experience of theological education and city- and town-centred ministry amongst marginalised and vulnerable communities, where she helped start and grow many fresh expressions of church. Building on the biblical connection between evangelism and social justice, Eunice is helping to start a movement of new Christian communities led by people experiencing economic marginalisation within the Methodist Church in Britain. Eunice lives in Birmingham and is part of the leadership team of Inclusive Gathering, Birmingham.

Mother Patricia Brown was ordained in 2021 after studying at St Mellitus College in London. She is curate at St Aldhelms, Edmonton. Patricia had a varied career, working in the beauty industry, nursing and chaplaincy with homeless young people, among other things, and as a karate teacher – she has a black belt in karate, which might come in handy in ministry from time to time!

Dave spent most of his career in strategic planning roles for infrastructure organisations. He joined the Diocese of Blackburn as Vision 2026 Programme Manager in 2016 successfully applying for two Strategic Development Funded projects, one of which is developing three models of leadership in four Lancashire outer estates. In summer 2019, Dave became the national Estates Evangelism Task Group’s Project Officer supporting the group in developing and implementing their strategy to deliver the General Synod approved outcome of having a loving, serving, worshipping community on every significant social housing estate in England.

Andy Dorton has lived with his family, by choice, on Hull’s outer-most Council estate for over twenty years, having been brought up somewhere rather different himself. He’s worked even longer than that for the CofE as Hull/East Riding Social Responsibility Officer. His two now grown children, now back in Hull, are both artists, like Liz, his wife. They understand low pay and simple living and the power of creativity. Andy does meetings, lots of them, though less since all the money went south. He’s a trustee of lots of things, has been on regeneration boards and the like and was a local Councillor for seven years (until May 2018). The prospect of Church Commissioners money supporting work on ‘estates’ is adding spice to his later paid-working life.

Nigel has recently retired as Priest-in Charge at St John the Evangelist Penge south east London. Prior to ordination he established a small consultancy working with clients in the faith and charity sectors including Oasis Community Learning and Oasis Community Trust. He spent over 38 years working in social housing in both local authorities and housing associations. His career included being the Chief Executive Kelsey Housing Association and Managing Director (London) A2Dominion Housing Group.
He has been a member of the London Committee of the National Housing Federation and a Board member of Penge Churches Housing Association. He is a trustee of the Living Well Bromley, The Breakthrough Trust and Chair of the St John’s Primary School Academy Council. He has recently been appointed to the governing Board of St Olave’s Grammar School Orpington.
Since 2006 together with his wife they have worked in Uganda supporting several church and community-based projects including education, health, HIV/AIDS and family work in the slums of Kampala.

Dean grew up in a South East London council estate and has lived, worshipped and worked in urban areas in the public and community sectors. He is currently serving his final year in curacy in Aldershot as a C of E Priest. He has had the privilege to come alongside those living in estates and helped to resource during two stints as a Church of England diocesan youth adviser from 2003 – 2019 and worked with young people and those significant adults alongside with a pause between, covering South London, Beds and Herts and not to forget Barnet! He loves soul music, travel, and people not least those who are excluded and marginalised. Dean is married with two adult children and most importantly is a follower of Jesus Christ. He would like to offer a contribution that helps transformation wherever he serves.

Andy Turner has worked for over three decades in community and youth work, as a practitioner, activist, trainer, researcher and manager in some of the poorest parts of England. In the 1990’s Andy co-founded The Kabin and The Hackney Marsh Partnership, working with East London communities to provide education, training and employment projects, advice services, social enterprise and youth work. A former Director establishing new networks and approaches at Church Urban Fund, Andy now works as an independent consultant and facilitator.