Trustees and Committee Members

of the Nigeria Health Care Project

Jenny Benfield - Retired teacher. Taught at Mary Hanney Secondary School, Oron, South Eastern Nigeria, 1972-1977. She has visited Nigeria twice recently. Secretary for the Association of Friends

Revd Ruth Crompton - Superintendent Methodist minister, formerly a nurse/midwife and practice nurse. She visited Nigeria in 1998

Dr David Cundall - Consultant community paediatrician, specializing in disabled children. David spent the first six years of his life at Ituk Mbang Hospital. He went to Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesha, as a medical student. He was a general doctor at Maua Methodist Hospital in Kenya, 1981-1984

Paula Dawson - University lecturer in paediatric nursing. Paula was the matron of Dabou Protestant Hospital in the Ivory Coast from1989 to1992 and visited Nigeria in 2008

Peter Grubb - Retired social worker, who has visited Nigeria six times. Chair and Project Co-ordinator from the outset

Rev Diane Hicks - Methodist minister and former teacher

Rev Dr Jennifer Smith - Methodist minister, who has spent several periods in the Uzuakoli Diocese on behalf of the Uzuakoli Support Group and works in Nigeria with the Cliff College International Learning Centre

Jack Liversidge - Retired accountant, who taught many Nigerian students

John Mann - Retired teacher who has visited Nigeria six times

Grace Mortimer - Retired nurse /midwife/ district nurse, who worked in Nigeria 1970-1975 and Ghana 1975-1981. She has visited Nigeria three times since then

Brian Poulter - Retired librarian and information officer. Part of the Project for more than ten years, has visited Nigeria on two occasions

Tim Rogers - General Manager of a Christian Guild Hotel who has visited Nigeria twice and has visited all projects currently being funded

Colin Sharpe - Retired accountant and former Project auditor from outset to 2006. He visited Nigeria in 2008.

Dr Abayomi Sobo - Retired Nigerian doctor, who has worked in Lagos, Nigeria, and for the World Health Organisation in Liberia and Sierra Leone. His last appointment before retiring was as a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

Dr Jill Spencer - Specializing in paediatric medicine, Jill visited Nigeria to do her elective at the Royal Cross Hospital, Ugwueke, and has visited again since she qualified, last time on behalf of the Uzuakoli Support Group

Sheila Staveley - Retired teacher and long time supporter of the Project

Yvonne Thornton - Retired bank official who has been involved in supporting children in The Gambia. Trustees' minute secretary

Revd Geoffrey Todd - Retired Methodist minister, who was a tutor at Immanuel College, Ibadan (Methodist/Anglican Ministerial Training), 1958-1962 and visited eight times since 1989

Barbara Todd - Retired teacher who taught in Nigeria 1958-1962 and has visited eight times since 1989

Dr Richard Vautrey - GP in Leeds and Deputy Chair of the BMA’s GP Committee. Richard worked in Nigeria at Ama Achara Hospital, Umuahia, and Bethesda Hospital, Igede, in 1992-93. Vice President of the Methodist Conference 2009-2010

Anne Vautrey - CAB volunteer who worked in Nigeria as a mission partner at Ama Achara Hospital, Umuahia, and Bethesda Hospital, Igede, in 1992-93

Margaret Webb - Retired teacher who has visited Nigeria on six occasions. Deputy Chairperson

Barry Weetman - Journalist with the Methodist Recorder who has visited Nigeria on six occasions

Peter Young - Retired human resource manager. Project Treasurer

Advisor
Roy Crowder - Partnership co-ordinator for Africa in World Church Relationships connexional team

 

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