LICHFIELD - Key Persons


Carrie Blount

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member
As well as overseeing the team, Carrie's role is to support individuals, community groups and churches with their community outreach, including supporting the opening and development of Places of Welcome and other community responses. She provides advice and guidance, working with statutory organisations and the wider voluntary, community and social enterprise sector to increase engagement and partnership working..

Emma Smith

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Lesley Bovington

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member
Like Carrie, Lesley supports our local Places of Welcome, encouraging existing community groups to join the network and working with others to start theirs from scratch. She provides day to day support, online promotion, funding information, and local training and networking opportunities. Lesley loves to visit the Places of Welcome, to thank the wonderful volunteers - and to share in the tea, cake and chat, of course!

Mr Cyril Randles

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Four Members of the Committee

Mr David Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Barchester Committee

Mr Martin Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Barchester Committee

Mrs Cathy Young

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Barchester Committee

Mrs Esther Burd

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Barchester Committee

Mrs Mandy Prince

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Barchester Committee

Revd Zoe Heming

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member
Zoe's passion for the Enabling All (EA) work draws on her personal experience of how inaccessible groups and churches can be as a disabled Vicar with dyslexia and ADHD. With a growing network of people sharing simple, practical advice for churches and community groups, the team are excited to be part of equipping, empowering and enabling others to notice and remove access barriers.

Sarah Thorpe

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member
Sarah is glad to work with any churches that want to join our Diocese-wide network, taking next steps to become more dementia-friendly churches at the heart of dementia-friendly communities. Sarah's dad had dementia in the last years of his life - and this prompted her to start a dementia group in her home church.

Su Parker

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member
PA to the Enabling All Disability Advisor Su supports Revd Zoe Hemming at Enabling All. She is passionate about making sure that our churches build communities that are welcoming to all. For over 10 years worked in different areas where welcome is central, including Dementia Friendly Churches and Places of Welcome. She has lived with disabilities in the past and is neurodivergent.

The Revd Preb Michael Metcalf

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Four Members of the Committee