Dear Catholic Care staff and volunteers,

I will be retiring from my role as Director of Catholic Care during 2025.

In view of ensuring the stability of the Charity, Trustees will shortly begin the recruitment process for my replacement, and I will retire once an appropriate appointment has been made and a handover has taken place.

This is a personal decision and one which I have deliberated over for some time.

I am looking forward to spending more time with my family, helping my elderly father and my young grandchildren, and to fully enjoy each and every day I am granted. I have been in this role for over 12 years and feel now is the right time to pass on the responsibility.

I cannot begin to express what working at this great Charity has meant to me.

My role at Catholic Care has not been a job, it has been a vocation. Every day I have had this fantastic opportunity to live out the Gospel helping those in need, and I feel very humbled by this. I have had such great experiences and met some truly inspiring people, the memories of which will stay with me for ever.

I feel a great sense of personal achievement as I plan to leave when I look back at what Catholic Care was on the day I started and the vibrant charity it is today. I am confident that the right person, a values-influenced leader with great vision, will be able to strategically drive it forward to sustainably help those in need well into the future.

I thank you all for all your hard work over the past 12 years and for having such a positive impact on the lives of so many, and I wish you well for the future.