Meet the Team

The children, youth and schools mission team is here to support you as an individual (paid or volunteer), as clergy, as a parish, benefice or deanery to grow in confidence, commitment, creativity and competence in your mission and ministry with children, young people, families and schools. They are champions of the Growing Younger priority in our churches and can help encourage, equip and support you as you grow your vision for and ministry with children and young people.

Diocesan Development Officer for Children and their Families: Ruth New Ruth's role is to create vision, resource, equip, train and encourage those working with children in the Diocese.  Ruth can be contacted on ruth.new@elydiocese.org.		Diocesan Development Officer for Youth and Families: Mike Kelly Mike provides advice to parishes and clergy, specialist ALM/LLM accreditation, youth workers network development, church group establishment, and training resource creation. Mike is also an important advocate for youth and an advisor on Mental Health First Aid as a qualified practitioner. Mike can be contacted on mike.kelly@elydiocese.org.
Diocesan Development Officer for School Mission: The Revd Mandy Flaherty Mandy develops the links between our parishes and our schools and academies, particularly through the Parish-School Covenant, advising and supporting ordained and lay ministry in their support of schools. Mandy also supports the Authorised Chaplaincy Assistant course, provides resource support for collective worship, advises on theological support and advice at times of critical incidents in schools. Mandy can be contacted on mandy.flaherty@elydiocese.org.