Meet the Good Work management group

The Management Group are appointed by the Norfolk and Waveney Churches Together and the Church Leaders to oversee the work of Good Work (Norfolk and Waveney Industrial Mission)

 

Barry Capon is the chairperson of the management group. Born in Petworth West Sussex, he is married to Chris and has three sons, one step son and six grandchildren (lucky man!). Barry has been a member at Ipswich Road URC for some twenty years. A lawyer by training he was Chief Executive of Norfolk County Council for twenty three years. He was formerly a Chairman of the Anglian Harbours NHS Trust and was a    Commissioner of the Criminal Cases review Commission 1997-2005. Barry is currently Vice Chairman of Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership- NHS Trust, a Trustee of the Norfolk Millennium Trust for carers and a lay member of the British Pharmacopoeia Commission.

 

Andrew Rouse is treasurer of Good Work (N&WIM) and has held this position for many years. Andrew worked in Norwich for Rowntree -Mackintosh, latterly Nestlé, for 28 years, and then did a short stint at    Robinsons Soft Drinks before deciding that there was more to life than Budgets, and took early retirement 4 years ago. Andrew says: “The work of IM is ever-expanding, the challenges exciting, and the accounting requirements get ever more complex – however did I find time to go to work!”

 

 

 

 

Andrew Platt is the minutes secretary of the group. He is County Ecumenical Officer for Norfolk and Waveney Churches Together. Good Work was brought under the hat of NWCT last year (although it has been a Mission Partner for some years) and Andrew was asked to join the management committee to provide a link with Churches Together. Prior to joining Churches Together he served as a minister in town and country parishes. Previously trained in architecture and working in a private practice he was able to meet those working on building sites as well as those who paid the bills. Andrew is married with two married children.

 

 

James Langstaff is Bishop of Lynn in the Diocese of Norwich and represents the Norfolk & Waveney Church Leaders on the management committee.  Before coming to Norfolk James had been in parish ministry in the Diocese of Birmingham, serving in both inner urban and suburban communities.  During that time he was particularly involved with issues of urban regeneration: Heartlands Urban Development Agency and East Birmingham Task Force. He also became involved in social housing, something he continues through his present role as Chair of Flagship Housing Group.  Bishop James is a Trustee of the Norfolk Rural Community Council and represents the faith communities of the Eastern region on the East of England Regional Assembly (EERA).

 

Audrey Sharp is originally from Northern Ireland and is married to a retired Vicar. Audrey says “I have been heavily involved in church work all of my life.  I have run more youth groups, taught more Sunday school classes, made more coffee, read more lessons, given out more hymn books, arranged more flowers, made meals for more visiting clergy, than I care to number, and have loved it all!”  Audrey is a full time HR Manager for Norfolk County Council, specialising in employment law and policy and loves that too!  For many years, while living in Norwich, Audrey was a member of the management committee of Victim Support.

 

 

Joe Woodcock has had about twenty different jobs during his career which include spells in both the public & private sectors. He retired from full time employment as Corporate Director (Economic) with Great Yarmouth Borough Council in Jan 2005 and now works part-time for ASCO as a Commercial Advisor. A Chartered Surveyor, Joe has a B.Sc. (Econ). He says: “I've been married for 40 years, to the same lady and we have two daughters and three grandchildren. I've been a Christian for as long as I can remember. I was brought up as an Anglican and confirmed in 1961. I became a Methodist on meeting my wife in 1965 and we worship at North Walsham Methodist Church.