Louise Coningsby
Louise operates as a catalyst and facilitator of organisational change and development with 33 Christian charities in London and the East of England. Her work involves Christian ethos and values, Board Development, Leadership Development and OD / HR strategy. Prior to this she worked in a range of organisations including the Fire Service, Brown and Root Civil Engineering, YWAM Philippines and PROSPECTS for people with learning disabilities.

Paul Cheesman
Paul has worked in Christian mission (Agapé) for 15 years, initially as a youth and schools worker, and for the past 10 years in Human Resources. His last role was as HR Director, responsible for strategic issues and a team of 4 operational specialists. He recently moved to working with Agapé Europe as an HR adviser to 1000 staff in 14 countries. The role involves strategic and systems development, troubleshooting and HR training. He has a Post-graduate Diploma in Personnel & Development and is a member of the CIPD.

Brian James
Brian's career started with a large retail organisation in Human Resources. He spent 16 years in varying sizes of stores covering London and the South East. He moved across to the Christian Charity Sector in 1999 and has been challenged to change the reputation of a Christian Charity as an employer from 'poor' to 'good'. Mission Care employ 300 staff in the Care sector and participate in delivering care through local authority contracts alongside mission based activities.

Sheila Jones
Sheila has worked in Christian mission beginning at the Bible Society and Scripture Gift Mission then working for the Evangelical Alliance for the last 12 years. During that time Sheila has developed the HR function and taken the organisation through to achieve the Investor In People standard. Sheila's role has developed throughout the 12 years and she is currently operating at director level. Nine years ago Sheila set up an HR Forum for those working in Personnel/Human Resources in the Christian charity sector. The Forum regularly gets 60 - 80 people attending the bi-annual meetings and there are 250+ on the e network.

Judith Beecham
co-opted member, development, technical, field-testing.
Judith is an analyst with a background of 10 years in the IT industry. Her main roles there were as an analyst, technical design authority (technical architect) and project leader. Clients were from the utilities sector - British Gas, BP etc. Judith has a Natural Sciences degree and postgraduate diploma in Computing Science from Cambridge university. More recently she has been working as an analyst and creating databases for small businesses. Judith also leads a small Christian organisation that runs summer youth camps.

We are most grateful to the many other individuals, not currently active members of the CDG, but whose contributions and time have been invaluable to the development of our work. In particular, we would like to thank:

Matt Bird
Gordon Lickfold
Merisa MacInnes
Joy Madeiros
Mike Perreau
Nick Wright
Jez Cheesman

We are also most grateful to the following organisations and individuals who have contributed significant amounts of time reviewing some of our materials:

The Bible Society
Mission Care
YMCA - Welwyn Hatfield
The Methodist Church
Church of England - St Pauls Hammersmith
Hope UK
World Vision
Anthony Collins Solicitors
PROSPECTS for people with Learning Disabilities
Global Connections
YWAM
London School of Theology
The Evangelical Alliance
Housing Justice
Interserve

Bertie Everard
Steve Collins
David Simmonds
Ron Smedley