Staff
Meet our lovely team who are on hand to help with any queries you might have…
Revd Claire Maxim
Chief Executive Officer
claire.maxim@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3060
Revd Elizabeth Clark
National Rural Officer for the Methodist and United Reformed Churches
elizabeth.clark@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3081
Revd Mark Betson
National Rural Officer for the Church of England
mark.betson@churchofengland.org
024 7685 3073
Alison Selwood
Office Manager
alison.selwood@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3060
Anna Laycock
Communications Assistant
comms@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3071
Deb Soesan
Administrator
deb.soesan@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3066
Fiona Anderson
Interim Fundraising Administrator
fiona.anderson@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3060
Jim Blumire
Book Keeper
finance@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3060
John Bennett
Computers for Rural People
john.bennett@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3066
Louise Davis
Project & Communications Officer
louise.davis@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3068
Peter Tacon
Finance Director
peter.tacon@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3060
Vacant
Development Officer
info@arthurrankcentre.org.uk
024 7685 3071
Trustees
Wise, experienced and supportive people with legal responsibility for guiding and overseeing our work.
Revd Dr Robert Barlow
Acting Chair
After many years working in wide a variety of rural church settings, he is now putting this experience to good use as Interim Team Rector of Dudley, a place he describes as having much to learn from rural churches.
George Dunn
Currently Chief Executive of the Tenant Farmers Association of England and Wales and a member of the leadership team of All Nations Christian Centre, an Elim Pentecostal Church in Reading, Berkshire.
Revd Les Hann
Methodist minister in Cumbria and rural officer for the Cumbrian Methodist District. He is the appointed representative for the Methodist and United Reformed Church.
Revd Claire McArthur
Claire is Rector at Stoke St Michael, Coventry. Prior to ordination she worked for over 20 years at the BBC and was Head of Communications and Digital at a national charity. Her expertise is in marketing, communications and everything digital.
Revd Ruth Newton
Ruth Newton is Parish Priest in North Yorkshire. She is a trustee on behalf of the General Synod.
Professor David Pink
Emeritus Professor of Crop Improvement, Harper Adams University. Member of the Food Ethics Council and Science Advisory Committee of LEAF and Scientific Advisor to the AHDB Field Vegetable panel. He worships at St Michael’s, Bishops Itchington in South Warwickshire.
John Plumb
Farmers in North Warwickshire, welcoming school groups, and is particularly keen to encourage habitats for wildlife and to demonstrate how farming and managing the environment for biodiversity go hand in hand.
Fr Rob Taylerson
A parish priest in the Roman Catholic Church in North Staffs Deanery, Archdiocese of Birmingham; earlier in his career actively involved in agricultural education.
Rob Walrond
Rob is an organic farmer in the heart of Somerset. He also works as the Rural Life Adviser for the Diocese of Bath and Wells and is involved in Agricultural Chaplaincy with the Farming Community Network (FCN) and North Somerset Agricultural Society.