Trustees
The Simon Community's Trustee Board, its Management Committee meets monthly to manage its affairs and plan its strategy. Day-to-day management is delegated to the Community Manager, who in turn is supported by a part-time administrator and a number of full-time following members:volunteers. The Management Committee is currently comprised of the
Steve Barnes – Steve has been volunteering on and off with the Simon Community since the year 2000. During this time he has been a full-time, live-in worker for a total of three and a half years. He now helps out as a part-time volunteer, and works professionally in social care.
Dave Clark – Joined the Community in 2005 as a co-worker. Outside of the Simon Community he works in the International Division of Help the Aged as a project manager, working with older people's organisations in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans.
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 – 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 – 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.
Shannon Kyle – Shannon becam a co-workernin 2009. She lives locally to St. Joseph's House in Camden and is a journalist and writer. She currently works freelance for newspapers and magazines, including the nationals and the women's weekly market. Shannon will be dealing with media enquiries.
Ian Lock – 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 – 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.
Michelle O'Connell - Michelle joined the Community in September 2008. She is currently an accountant in the City and has previously worked in both the public and private sector. She is an active co-worker, regularlty going out on the Thursday night soup runs. Michelle is the current Treasurer of the Community
John Yeudall – John joined Simon as a volunteer in 1972 and worked in the Community for 1½ years. He was a member of the Management Committee from 1974 to 1990, during which time he served as chairman and treasurer. John rejoined the Management Committee to be part of the process of renewal; to help put the Community back on its feet financially and to use his experience to help reintroduce the Simon philosophy and basic principles into the charity's work. Having been chair of the trustees for the last 3 years he has now returned to being a trustee.
John is a retired architect.