Trustees
The Simon Community's Trustee Board, its Management Committee, meets monthly to manage its affairs and plan its strategy, together with the Director, who follows through with this work. The day-to-day management is delegated to the Community Services Manager, who in turn is supported by a part-time Administrator and a number of full-time and part-time members:volunteers. The Management Committee is currently comprised of:
Emma Ciechan - Treasurer - Emma lives in West Hampstead and qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG. She has worked as a financial and management accountant in Edinburgh and London, taking a year out for voluntary work in South Africa six years ago. She was drawn to Simon because of the inclusive and accepting ethos of the community, and looks forward to becoming involved much more than just pulling together the financials.
Alan Cole – Joined the Community as a co-worker in 2000, and was elected as a trustee in 2004. He was formerly a worker within The Simon Community and joined the Management Committee in order to repay the community for all it has given to him. He is also an active co-worker, regularly helping out with the early morning tea runs and organising social events for the Community.
Ruth Cram – Ruth has been a Trustee since mid-2008. She enjoys working behind the scenes to support the work of the Simon Community. After being a young full time Simon worker in 1969-70, Ruth married another volunteer at Centrepoint, a project started up by the Simon Communtity. She has combined raising and supporting her family with a variety of caring work, both voluntary and paid. Now retired from her work as a priest in the Anglican Church, Ruth hopes to see the best Simon principles lived out in the present day.
M.T. Gibson-Watt – Chair - Joined the Community in 1967 as a volunteer worker where she met and married Anton Wallich-Clifford. She continued to live and work in the Community with Anton until his death in 1978 and remained working in Simon until 1980. She has been a trustee at various times since then and was acting director in 2002. MT has also been a trustee of other organisations concerned with social justice, the environment and the arts.
Cynthia Jameson – Vice Chair - Joined the Community as a co-worker at the beginning of 2008. From initially an engineering background, she has had a varied career and was at one time a social worker, working with the mentally ill. Cynthia has served on many charity committees over the years. She is still a very active co-worker within the Community.
Ian Lock – Secretary - Ian became a trustee in 2006, having been the Community's Interim Director for 12 months from April 2005. His background is in general management and HR, including four years as business services director for Ordnance Survey and eight years as HR director for St Mungo's.
Alastair Murray – Vice Chair - Alastair has been involved in the field of homelessness since 1991. In 2003 he became development worker with UNLEASH, Church Action on Homelessness in London, which merged in 2006 with the national Christian campaigning organisation Housing Justice. He has been a supporter of the Simon Community for many years and became a trustee in February 2008.