Our Trustees

Colin recently retired after working as the Ecumenical Officer for Birmingham Churches Together for 14 years encouraging local churches across the city to work collaboratively, most especially in social action projects supporting some of the most disadvantaged people in the city region.

He has wide experience of supporting a range of faith based charities in the region as a Trustee, most especially during his time as Chair of Thrive Together Birmingham, a charity helping churches address issues of poverty in their community. Before coming to Birmingham Colin has a long experience of Christian ministry in various urban and multi-cultural settings including Liverpool, Zambia and Edinburgh.

David moved to Birmingham when he started work for Severn Trent Water. In a long career with the company he has worked in several areas around the City and as far afield as Worcester. In that time he has had a variety of roles but ultimately as a senior manager at the Head Office.

More recently he has been involved as a Trustee for two educational charities and at CIWEM, which is a professional body accrediting those who work in the water or environmental sector. Here he was Chairman of CSL, the commercial company supporting CIWEM.

Away from work, David is heavily involved with his local church where he is a Lay Reader and on the PCC.

Ellie was born and brought up in Birmingham, eventually moving to London for good when she qualified as a lawyer. She is an employed Barrister, working the public sector and specialising in contentious regulatory and professional disciplinary cases. She has worked in major financial services firms, at the financial regulator and as an independent Barrister prosecuting and defending serious and complex crime. Her experience also includes a role in which she designed and executed a review of an organisation’s executive governance arrangements.

Ellie maintains her strong links with Birmingham with all her family still based in the area. Ellie became a trustee of JERICHO in summer 2018. She is also a trustee of One Small Thing.

James is a social entrepreneur whose lived experience and subsequent life transformation has provided him with a platform allowing him to use his past to help the future of others.

He is the founder of Be;Live, a charitable organisation which exists to educate people around mental health and raise money to help those hard to reach gain access to support.

James has had the privilege of speaking to 1000’s of people at high profile organisations such as the Bank of England, The UK Home Office, The Foreign Office as well as at schools, colleges and conferences.

Martin is a retired Chartered Accountant who worked in social housing for many years, mainly on ‘stock transfers’ where tenants sit on the board and help shape policy. During that time he has overseen the financing and delivery of large scale regeneration and development projects.

He has served as chair of Walsave credit union and has lived in Birmingham for most of his life. Martin is an active member of Riverside church

Born in Birmingham, Uniqua is a Business Change Manager at the West Midlands Combined Authority. Working within the Economic Delivery, Skills and Communities Directorate, Uniqua works on organisational change and transformation programmes designed to navigate cultural change, manage new systems and processes, and embed new ways of working.

Prior to this role, Uniqua working in roles spanning both the public and private sectors, including with HMRC and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, as well as professional services firms Turner & Townsend and Grant Thornton.

Passionate about social mobility, Uniqua is vocal about the lived experiences of residents being reflected in Government policy. Away from work Uniqua is a mother and mentor to final-year university students.

Zac came to Birmingham for university in 2000 and ended up undertaking a PhD in the field of the Political Sociology of Work and Employment.

Since this time, Zac has worked as a Business Development and Bidding professional across each of the design, build, finance and operate elements of the construction industry. Currently he is an Associate Bid Director for AECOM, helping lead their largest engineering and construction bids across Europe and further afield.

In recent years, Zac’s roles in the world of bidding have been greatly impacted by the Social Value agenda - providing fantastic opportunities to help influence the delivery of engineering and construction projects so they can more directly benefit the communities where they are occurring, something Zac is hugely passionate about.