Course Teachers

Matt Allen studied classics and now works as a civil servant on environmental issues. He likes meeting people who think about life, and is keen to see Christians actively engaging with philosophical issues. He likes walking, and particularly enjoys the beauty of mountain scenery.

Aglaia Barraclough is a human geographer with a particular interest in history and anthropology. She has experience in pastoral care with a great desire to explore the kingdom of God as alternative living. She likes Byzantine chanting, bouzouki music and Easter in Greece.

Peter Barraclough has a background in public health engineering prior to training in Christian counselling. He has led a house group on a council estate and is passionate about the kingdom of God. He aspires to cooking French-style and choosing the perfect wine.

Jonathan Bartley has a background in social sciences. He is a political activist who's the founder and director of Ekklesia, which enables Christians to recognise the political demands of their faith. He is also a writer and broadcaster. His other passion in life is playing the drums.

Foluke Blackburn has a background in biblical studies and adult education and is a university lecturer in social work. She has a keen interest in self-directed learning. She loves line dancing and developing her skills as a storyteller.

Stuart Blackburn is trained in biblical studies and is a religious education teacher. He is interested in gender issues and helping people see the practical application of difficult parts of the Bible. He is an amateur musician playing bass guitar and jazz saxophone

Juliet Blackburn is originally from Essex but has lived in Manchester for many years. She works in urban regeneration and has a passion for the church?s role in facilitating a healing society. If she were on Mastermind (which she never will be) her specialist subject would be curry.

Tim Boyes spent two years in Pakistan and fifteen teaching in Birmingham. He struggles to see how an often Islamophobic church, Jesus and our cities' poorest communities will ever make sense of each other! He stays sane by sailing, doing theatre and dreaming dreams!

Kenneth Cameron studied classics and works on policy in the Civil Service. He enjoys exploring biblical expression in spirituality and culture, and encouraging Christians to think openly and creatively. He is interested in the arts, the environment and rock and classical music

Linda Crebbin is a religious studies teacher and a leader in her home church. She regularly leads worship, preaches and works to help people develop their gifts and abilities. She has a passion to see the right people in the right places for the right reasons.

Fran Crutchley holds a degree in European studies and she currently works in the logistics industry. She is actively involved in a youth outreach project at her local church and is excited about seeing the kingdom of God transform the local community. She loves skiing and also cycling, but in less mountainous regions!

Jonathan Dorsett is a shalom activist (if you don’t know what that means you will after Workshop!). He is passionate about releasing people’s dreams and visions for God’s domination free kingdom and co-ordinates the Workshop linked Peace School. He is a keen sculptor, allotmenter, brewer, and also runs a fairtrade comedy club.

Andrew Gallimore pastors a Baptist church where he preaches and teaches regularly. He is the director of a Christian Trust working in local primary schools, leading assemblies and RE lessons. He is a keen guitarist and loves to get people singing. Andrew is married withtwo teenage boys. In his spare time - what spare time?!

Viv Grant is an experienced leader and manager in inner-city primary schools who now tutors aspiring school leaders. She longs for equality and social justice, where children are valued and gain self-esteem. She loves a 'lie in' and only wishes her two young sons did too!

Sue Haslehurst has moved from languages to theology, taking in IT and human rights along the way. Now involved in church leadership, she is excited by the contemporary relevance of theology and the blue flashes generated by opening self-seal envelopes in the dark.

Peter Haslehurst studied physiology, but these days he works for IBM as an IT Specialist. He is fascinated by the challenges to his faith from culture, film, science and working life. He is an enthusiastic player of strategy boardgames, and he loves jumping off hills in his paraglider.

Ruth Hiscutt is a civil engineer. Having worked in France for a few years, she is fascinated by the way history and culture affect how we think. She loves exploring and applying ideas, and helping others to do the same. She also enjoys skiing, especially since discovering snowblades.

Jez Howat works in marketing. In his local church he leads a cell group and is a teacher. He has also been involved in teaching church leaders in East Africa. He likes making Christians think. He enjoys good food, fine wines and especially eating haggis.

Cherryl Hunt is a scientist, theologian and an experienced teacher. She is widely travelled including spending two years with her husband in Christian work in Kazakstan. She is a frustrated astronaut who likes cooking octopus stew.

Nina Jarman is a chemical engineer. She leads the worship team within her local church with a concern for seeing more reality in worship and people released into their full potential. She also enjoys playing various woodwind instruments and watching Formula 1 racing.

Philip Lytra is trained in theology and education. He is an Orthodox Christian currently teaching history at secondary school. He is keen to show how eastern Christian theology can empower the contemporary church. He buys more books than he can read and aspires to brew beer.

Noel Moules is the founder and director of Workshop. Born in India of missionary parents he spent his formative years in the mountains of the Himalaya. He studied theology and education. He loves every kind of wilderness, world music and the songs of Bob Dylan.

Stuart Murray Williams is a freelance teacher and consultant in both urban mission and alternative ways of being church, with many years? experience of church planting in the inner city. A science fiction buff who enjoys cooking curries, he is the author of a number of books.

Tracy Newman-Ford teaches children with special educational needs. She enjoys preaching and has experience in leadership. Her great passion is to see churches become less structured and more creative. She adores acting, red wine and her vast collection of earrings.

Sandy Nott is a teacher who works with refugees. She has extensive experience in pastoral leadership, especially in counselling, teaching and working with small groups. She loves going to new places with her husband where they can walk and discover coffee shops.

Viv O'Brien is the Ministries Advisor for the Baptist Union where she has national responsibility for overseeing the development of pastors and preachers. She enjoys baroque music, and is a creative writer who loves to script, choreograph and produce pantomimes.

Jill Ogilvy is a research scientist. She loves enabling others to grow spiritually and believes in the importance of Christian witness in the workplace where she co-leads a fellowship group. She enjoys reading, cycling, swimming and learning from listening to others.

Tim Payne is a creativity activist who is motivated to inspire and develop individuals and their relationship with Jesus. He leads a home group and works as both a human-art photographer and a builder. He is a humour junkie and enjoys mountain tops, red wine and single malt whisky.

Alison Phelps is a pastoral church worker with diverse experience in community adult education. Her concerns are with urban mission and the practicalities of making the gospel work in areas of brokenness. Occasionally found riding a rickshaw somewhere around Europe.

Lloyd Pietersen is a theologian with particular expertise in the New Testament. He has experience as an elder in a large city church, with specific responsibility for running a course in applied theology for church members. He is also a mathematician and a wine connoisseur.

Adam Pipe is a barrister with specialisms in medical law and immigration and asylum. As a Christian he has an abiding passion to see people develop as disciples able to grapple with the challenges of the real world. He has a real desire for revival, most especially that of Welsh rugby!

Nick Rawlings trained as an illustrator and now works as a graphic designer. He trained as a local preacher and for the last few years he, his wife and children have been experimenting with liquid/emerging church with others. Working from home as part of a ‘virtual’ company, he welcomes Workshop as an opportunity to engage with the real world.

Simon Scott is a research scientist who works on the applications of plasmas in aerospace. He has led house groups and Christian enquiry groups. He co-founded a works Christian fellowship. In his spare time he collects snowstorm scenes, enjoys Belgian beer and loves playing the piano.

Bob Shearer works as a designer, specialising in structural glass. He leads a Pastorate of several home groups in his local Anglican church, engendering a spirit of empowerment. Bob also runs a local wine club. He is interested in the development of theology and the relationship between doctrine and science. Without good wine and jazz guitar, this wouldn't be possible.

Andrea Stevens works full time in the NHS in clinical oncology and runs a housegroup at church. When not battling with the latest round of NHS bureacracy, she is usually found in the garden or "with her nose in a book"

Fran Tattersall teaches science and IT to both children and adults. She is endlessly fascinated by all aspects of technology and the challenge of discerning truth in a changing world. Her weakness is buying books and then not reading them!

Nick Webb works with people and organisations to build positive changes, some just call it management consultancy. He enjoys the fusion of creativity, mission and change, whether in his local church, European church-planting, international medical education, transformational business, or AIDS awareness. For kicks he plays tenor saxophone and goes cycling, but not at the same time.

Sarah Williams works with the Jubilee Debt Campaign, coordinating their policy and campaigns. A graduate in social and political sciences she is doing an MSc in global politics. Her passion is for a Christian faith that is practically engaged with social justice, campaigning for trade justice, two-thirds world debt cancellation, abolition of the arms trade and ...

Paul Wilson is a mathematician who has taught at a sixth form college for over 30 years, recently retiring as assistant principal.He has been involved in church planting and leadership for over 20 years and has a passion to establish people in a living faith.He is also an icecreamaholic.