CAP's Council of Management

The current members of the Council of Management are:

Frances Ballin
Frances lives in Cardiff, South Wales and is retired. She has a passion for understanding more about people, politics, poverty, participation and possibilities. Taking part in the Pilgrimage against Poverty pushed her into a patriotic position where she promised herself to play a part in putting Wales on the CAP map. It's still something she cares about, but since then the world has changed. Poverty knows no borders, nor should the Church.

Elspeth Brighton
Elspeth says: “As a CAP member for many years I am proud to have taken part in the Pilgrimage against Poverty. I work as a housing manager in Wigan, currently running the homelessness service. With financial experience at work and in my local church I am offering my services as treasurer.”

Kathleen Carter
Kath has lived in Stockton for some time.  She has worked running her own family business as a market trader and then in social care for the elderly.
She has dealt with health and business challenges which have affected her and her family and is now a passionate grassroots campaigner on issues of poverty, including debt, employment and caring responsibilities.

Jenny Cooke
Jenny Cooke is a graduate civil engineer and a member of a church in a deprived area of South Leeds. She is an experienced campaigner from work with the Christian activist network SPEAK, and since moving to Leeds has been an active member of the Leeds Church Action on Poverty group.

Millicent Dews
Millicent has been a member of Church Action on Poverty for a good number of years, having joined in the mid 1990s. She is married with a little boy called Christian. She is also a committed Christian with the community much to her heart. She currently works for the Coventry New Deal for Communities program and attends St Philip's Church in Potters Green, Coventry. She has spoken for CAP on several occasions, including two National Poverty Hearings, the most recent in London, and also in London at the end of the 1999 Pilgrimage against Poverty. 

Julie Green
Julie Green lives in Staffordshire with a wide knowledge of the Midlands area. She is an ex-social worker with experience of working with the homeless, young people, debt, child poverty and court work. Julie is disabled and now working part-time supporting youth clubs. She has been a member of the Council of Management for nine years and has recently become a member of the Officers' Group, with particular responsibility for exhibition and conference representation.

Wayne Green
Wayne has been involved with CAP for many years and was a speaker at the National Poverty Hearing in 1996. Wayne has also written many papers including the "Enquiry for the Churches" and "Future of Work Report". Wayne has been a Board Director and Trustee for UK CAP, was elected as co-chair of the University of Sussex International Relations & Politics Society, and has attended many conferences including UK, Europe, Russia, Middle East, Dubai, and Africa.

Helen Hood
Helen Hood is a lay theologian and church worker in the Scottish Episcopal Church.  A commitment to justice and peace issues drives her desire to work for the eradication of poverty.  She has been a CAP member since the 1980s and a trustee for three years.  Helen lives in Edinburgh, is married and has two grown-up children.

Alison Jackson
Alison Jackson retired from the civil service in 2005 and then worked for the Methodist Church Head Office until September 2008.  She was elected to the Council of Management in 2006 and is currently Vice Chair and Staff Liaison Officer.  She has experience in urban and rural regeneration, staff management and strategic leadership.

Bandi Mbubi
Bandi is committed to eradicating poverty in the UK and the world. He has worked in various capacities with asylum seekers and refugees, BME communities, people affected by homelessness and poverty, as an advocacy, advice, campaigns and community development worker. He is currently working at the Manna Society with homeless people and those in need.

Norbert Mbu-Mputu
Norbert is very involved in working with asylum seekers and refugees in Wales. He has been a member of the Council of Management since 2007.

Brian O'Neill
Brian is a Christian minister and has been a member of he Council of Management for a number of years.

Lewis Rose
Lewis works for Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland. He is the chair of CAP's Council of Management.

Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith lives in Birmingham and has recently been a Community Warden in the Kings Norton area of the city. He sits on several community committees and is a committed Christian. He has been a member of CAP for many years and has joined in several events in his time as a member. He has joined the Council of Management so that he can put into practice some of the things he learned as a church member and community worker. He believes very much in the work of CAP, giving people a voice, where what they say matters and can be heard by those who can change things.

Jacqueline Worthington
Jackie has been a member of CAP for more than 20 years and has been a council member for nine of those. Jacqui is a member of the Leeds CAP group, representing them on the Old Peoples’ Forum, and is a Governor of Leeds Foundation Trust, Mental Health, where she assists the Chaplain. Jacqui is a committed Christian and family lady and committed to the aims of CAP, helping out at CAP events across the country.