Our Team

I have recently moved to London from Cardiff, and it’s a real joy to be joining the life of this community as Associate Vicar at St Andrew’s.

Over the years I’ve lived and worked in different parts of the UK, and spent nearly ten years in Vancouver, Canada, experiences which have deeply shaped both my faith and my understanding of community. I now live here with my husband Mark, and we have two grown-up children. I also have two rescue dogs, and love walking them around the local neighbourhood and in the beautiful green spaces London has to offer.

Before entering ordained ministry, I was a professional musician, working in both the UK and Canada as a performer, teacher, and in community music projects. Music and the arts remain central to who I am, and I care deeply about creativity as a way people connect, express faith, and build community together.

At heart, I’m passionate about creating spaces where people can belong, be themselves, and encounter God in ways that are generous, inclusive, and life-giving. I believe God is not distant or reserved for the few, but present, compassionate, and at work in the everyday rhythms of our lives - in relationships, neighbourhoods, and shared stories.

Outside of church life, I love swimming (and am currently enjoying discovering London’s lidos), walking, writing, and spending time reflecting - some of which I share through my blog and you can read here.

I moved to this community with my family in 2016. Together with my husband Andy and our two young daughters, I love to spend time eating, playing and enjoying the local area, especially Woodberry Wetlands.

I love connecting people and creating community so that lives are shared with love.

I do this because I’ve experienced the radically inclusive love of God, who is the source and sustainer of all things. I think God is best recognised as a radical, relational flow of love, in and through all things. Not the distant angry divinity so often portrayed in the history of western Christianity. Instead God is life-giving, loving, funny, utterly inclusive and at the heart of each of us. It’s this loving God, whom I experience, that I want to share. It’s this loving God (the Creator/Christ/Spirit) who is the source of community and who enables us to create community together. 

I also love walking, drinking coffee, and watching box sets (I’ve watched The West Wing too many times to count!).

Since spring 2025, I have served as Rector of St Mary’s Stoke Newington while continuing as Vicar of St Andrew’s through our church partnership. With Revd Ruth joining us in autumn 2025, we’re fortunate to have her based solely at St Andrew’s, strengthening our presence in the community. We’re thrilled to welcome her energy, enthusiasm, and musical gifts!