Trustees The name of the charity is Birmingham Diocesan Trust, registration number 234216. The charity, in its day to day dealings, is also known as the Archdiocese of Birmingham. Key documents Birmingham Diocesan Trust Financial Statements 2017 Birmingham Diocesan Trust Deed Board of Trustees Chair: Archbishop Bernard Longley Bernard Longley, 9th Archbishop of Birmingham, is Chair of the Bishops’ Conference Department of Dialogue and Unity and Episcopal Liaison to the Travellers’ Issues Working Group. Archbishop Longley also sits on the Mixed Commission of the Conference of Religious. Archbishop Longley was appointed by Pope Benedict as a member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization and the co-Chairman of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), with oversight of the third phase of Anglican-Catholic dialogue. Jacqui Francis Jacqui's consultancy, AdinaMay, provides specialist recruitment services. She brings a constructive external perspective to senior recruitment campaigns for ministerial appointments, executive and non-executive roles and membership of regulators and expert bodies. Jacqui is a member of the Judicial Appointments Commission recruitment panels and she serves on the Bar Standards Board, Independent Appointments Panel. Locally she is a Citizen Member of Birmingham City Council - Independent Remuneration Panel. Jacqui is a previous ministerial appointee Lay Adviser on the West Midlands Strategic Management Board responsible for public protection arrangements. Jacqui also volunteers at PAUSE a mental health drop-in centre for young people. Professor Deirdre Kelly Deirdre is the Founding Director of the Liver Unit, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Professor of Paediatric Hepatology at University of Birmingham. Deirdre has extensive Board and Charity Trustee experience as an executive and a non-executive in healthcare, professional, voluntary and civic settings. Deirdre continues to work as a paediatrician and is on the Council of the General Medical Council and a Trustee of Breast Cancer UK. She is married to Sir Ian Byatt and has two sons and three grandchildren. Deacon David Palmer BA (Financial Control) FCA CTA MCIPD (Trustee and Treasurer) An experienced financial professional, who having worked at senior levels in the Finance and the Computer Services industries, specialised for over twenty years in management training in the practical understanding and utilisation of financial information. After Ordination as a Permanent Deacon in 2007, he has increasingly devoted more time to voluntary work in the Catholic Church as an Evangelist, Deacon and Trustee. He is also a Trustee of Oscott College, Maryvale Institute, Sehion Ministries and The Venerable English College Trust. He is married with one daughter and four granddaughters. Bishop David McGough Bishop David McGough has a degree in Theology and in Sacred Scripture. Bishop McGough spent 15 years teaching Scripture to students for the Catholic Priesthood at Oscott College from 1974 until 1989. In 1986 he was appointed as Parish Priest at Christ the King, Kingstanding, Birmingham. He has been Parish Priest at Our Lady and All Saints, Stourbridge, since 1990. His other responsibilities in the Archdiocese of Birmingham have been as Dean of the Dudley Deanery and Canon of St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham. He was appointed Episcopal Vicar for Walsall, Wolverhampton, the Black Country and Worcestershire in 2004. Bishop William Kenney One of Bishop Kenney’s major concerns has been to build up the Caritas organisation of the diocese, responsible for the pastoral-social work of the Church on a national and international basis. In 1991 he was elected President of Caritas Europe. The major part of this work concerned the problems of refugees and immigrants within Europe and the building up of the Caritas organisations in the eastern part of our continent. Bishop Kenney has an honorary doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg for his work encouraging immigrant students to attend university. He lectures extensively in Sweden and abroad on social issues and on ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue. He is a member of the Las Casas Advisory Board which promotes critical reflection on questions of human dignity in the light of Catholic social teaching and theology; a trustee of the Newman Trust, Oxford; a member of the diocesan Justice & Peace Commission and the Chair of the Pastoral Planning Group. Fr Stephen Wright Fr. Stephen Wright LLB, STL is a Priest of the Archdiocese, ordained in 2000. He has served in the parishes of Corpus Christi, Stechford, St. Joseph’s, Banbury and SS Mary and Modwen, Burton upon Trent. From 2012-2019 he was the Episcopal Vicar for Religious. In September 2019 Archbishop Bernard Longley appointed him as the Vicar General and a Trustee. Before training for the priesthood he studied Law and qualified as a Barrister, being called to the Bar in 1993. He has a Licentiate in Dogmatic Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome. Fr Jonathan Veasey Fr Jonathan Veasey is a priest of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and serves as Parish Priest of Sacred Heart and Holy Souls in Acocks Green, Birmingham. Fr Jonathan has served as Director of the Diocesan Education Service leading the strategic development of Catholic education for the schools of the Archdiocese. He currently serves as the Chair of the Diocesan Academy Strategy Board and as a lead trustee for Catholic education. Christopher Loughran Chris has recently completed a 30-year career with Deloitte, the international professional services firm. Joining the embryonic management consulting division of Deloitte (then Touche Ross and Co,) in Birmingham in 1987, he has worked both nationally and internationally with the firm. He was admitted to partnership in 1993, led the Technology Consulting practice from 2002-2010 and returned to Birmingham in 2010 to assume the role of Senior Partner for the Midlands Region from 2010-2015. He served as an elected member of the Board of Partners from 2010-2016. Chris is Deputy Chairman of the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership, a non-executive director of the West Midlands Growth Company, a Trustee of the CBSO and Chair of the CBSO Development Trust and Chairman of Birmingham & Solihull Rugby Club. Chris served as High Sheriff of the West Midlands 2018-19. Ms Helen Bardy Information to follow Sub Committees (Trustees highlighted in bold) Finance and Property Members: Archbishop Bernard Longley (Chair), Bishop David McGough, Bishop William Kenney, Deacon David Palmer, Fr Stephen Wright, David Brooks. Meets on a fortnightly basis to consider and take major decisions on property and financial issues. Terms of Reference for this committee are under revision as it is intended it should be reformed into two Committees (one dealing with Finance, and one with Property) in the near future. Care of Clergy Members: Fr Paul Fitzpatrick (Chair), Fr Stephen Wright, Canon Michael Neylon, Fr Pat Brennan, Fr Paul Johnson, Deacon David Palmer, Deacon Michael McKearney, Deacon Paul O’Connor, David Brooks, Pat Deeley, Bernard Cooper, Sr Luke Lennon. Meets twice a year to consider and take major decisions on issues relating to clergy welfare, including retired clergy. Care of Clergy Committee Terms of Reference Communications Members: Bishop David McGough (Chair), Fr Stephen Wright, Deacon David Palmer, David Brooks. Gerry Dryden, Fr Michael Dolman, James O’Hara, Con McHugh, Faye Fawcett, Caroline Bletso. Meets quarterly to consider and take major decisions on communications issues. Communications Committee Terms of Reference Education Members: Bishop David McGough (Chair), Fr Stephen Wright, Fr Jonathan Veasey, Adam Hardy, Deacon David Palmer, Clare O'Brien, David Brooks. Meets quarterly to consider and take major decisions on educational matters as implemented through the Diocesan Education Services. Education Committee Terms of Reference Investment Members: Deacon David Palmer (Chair), Chris Loughran, Fr Stephen Wright, David Brooks, Steve Roche. Meets three times a year to consider and take major decisions on investment issues in conjunction with the Diocese's Investment Managers. Investment Committee Terms of Reference Remuneration Members: Deacon David Palmer (Chair), Fr Stephen Wright, Jacqui Francis, David Brooks Gerry Dryden, Steve Roche. Meets twice a year to consider and take major decisions on issues relating to employee matters - recruitment, evaluation of pay structures etc. Remuneration Committee Terms of Reference The Safeguarding Commission Members: Elizabeth Fisher (Chair), Prof Deirdre Kelly, Fr Stephen Wright, Fr Richard Walker, Fr Evarist Sunday, Janet Tibbits, Angela Randle, Michelle McLoughlin, Dawn Williams, Stu Bill, Andrew Haley, Sarah Fullard, Jacqui Oliver, Fiona O’Reilly, Sukhy Gill Meets quarterly to consider and take major decisions on safeguarding matters as implemented through the Safeguarding Department. Terms of Reference