Sara Hyde has spent over a decade working in the criminal justice system, primarily with women, following a first career in theatre. She worked in prison and post release and now specialises in research to reduce deaths in custody. She has been involved in the community and church on Caledonian Road in Islington for the last 16 years, where she is now a councillor, having previously been a London Assembly and a parliamentary candidate. She is Chair of Fabian Women’s Network and was part of the inaugural Jo Cox Women in Leadership cohort.

John Wyatt is Emeritus Professor of Ethics and Perinatology at University College London. He worked as a consultant neonatologist at University College Hospital for more than 20 years but is now concentrating on teaching and research into ethical dilemmas raised by advances in technology. He is Chair of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, and President of the Christian Medical Fellowship. He is a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and has been frequently involved in professional and media debates on ethical issues concerning the beginning and end of life. His most recent book is “Dying Well” published by InterVarsity Press.

Helen Webb has been involved with the Willow Tree Centre near Bristol since 2007, supporting clients and taking a lead in the Centre’s work in schools, the local women’s prison and with people with learning difficulties. She has been the Centre’s Director since 2016.

Helen Turley is a trustee of PCN and has worked as Centre Manager at Cornerstone Huntingdon since 2010.  She has been involved with the centre since 2008 and prior to this she worked in supporting teenage mothers for 10 years.

Naomi Marsden is Communications Officer for CARE (Christian Action Research and Education). She specialises in beginning of life issues, and works to communicate the value of life in the public square and put human dignity at the heart of public policy.

Mary Makepeace has been involved with the Willow Tree Centre near Bristol for four years as an advisor supporting clients. Since Sept 2018 she has been the centre Development Worker, primarily writing and co-ordinating the piloting of a telephone support programme for post abortion and baby loss clients. She is also a trained supervision facilitator.

Andrew Graystone is an award-winning broadcaster and writer who is heard regularly on BBC Radio 2, Radio 4 and BBC 5Live. He is an expert on the social impact of media and digital culture.

Andrew chairs The Charnwood Trust, a pioneering charity working with disabled children and their families. He is also chair of governors at the Nazarene College, which is part of the University of Manchester. He is a campaigner for victims of sexual abuse.

Andrew is a member of a church in Longsight, South Manchester. Following the appalling attack on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, Andrew went viral on the internet after standing outside his local mosque with a sign saying “You are my friends.” For this action he was commended by senior figures including the Prime Minister of New Zealand and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Andrew’s book ‘Too Much Information? Ten Essential Questions for Digital Christians’ was published by Canterbury Press in September 2019.

Rachel Firth has worked as a counsellor and psychotherapist in private practice for over twenty years, after a Diploma in Integrative Counselling at St Johns College, Nottingham. Accredited with BACP, she works integratively, incorporating subsequent valuable psychoanalytic training, a person centred style and the important tools of CBT.

She particularly enjoys teaching and training, and has run seminars on depression, anxiety, loss and bereavement, trauma and abuse in a variety of contexts, including churches and counselling courses. She has also taught on self harm and bereavement in the mental health stream at New Wine South West. She wrote material on depression for the New ID course on Eating Disorders, which she continues to teach at Holy Trinity Church Brompton and elsewhere. She currently teaches on trauma, abuse and bereavement on the Heart and Mind diploma course in central London. Encouraging and equipping those hungry to learn more in the counselling maze is a personal passion!

Rachel has also trained as a Licenced Lay Minister in the Salisbury diocese, where her pastoral experience and love of teaching shape her ministry. The interface of the spiritual and psychological and their integration is very close to her heart.

Natalie Collins is a Gender Justice Specialist. She set up Spark (www.sparkequip.org) and works to enable individuals and organisations to prevent and respond to male violence against women. She is also the Creator and Director of DAY (www.dayprogramme.org), an innovative youth domestic abuse and exploitation education programme and of the Own My Life course (www.ownmylifecourse.org) for women who have been subjected to abuse.

She organises Project 3:28 (www.project328.info), co-founded the UK Christian Feminist Network (www.christianfeministnetwork.com), works as a Consultant with Press Red, has written a Grove Book on Gender Aware Youth Practice, and her book “Out Of Control; couples, conflict and the capacity for change” has been published by SPCK.  She speaks and writes on understanding and ending gender injustice nationally and internationally.

Maureen Chaffe is Founder of Process Matters 2, and has more than 20 years’ experience making systems work more smoothly in local government, not-for-profit organisations and in the private sector. She understands how Data Protection legislation and IT security can be implemented in charities and the best ways for charities to make sure they stay on the right side of the law and remain compliant.

Susan Barnes is a trustee of PCN has been for Choices PCC Ealing.  She is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with a special interest in pregnancy loss and bereavement care.