Meet the team
Staff & Associates
Rosie Venner
Director of Movement Building
Rosie joined JustMoney Movement from Christian Aid where she worked for many years as a Regional Coordinator with churches, volunteers and campaigners and then as Deputy Head of the South East Region. Before this, Rosie worked for the Student Christian Movement and the Diocese of Lichfield and is passionate about supporting Christians to put their faith into action.
Outside of work Rosie enjoys escaping to the allotment, exploring wild places with her family and helping with a weekly BikeBus to local schools. She worships at St Martin’s in Worcester, where she’s involved in the church’s children’s work and Eco Church group.
Annie Sharples
Communications and Events Coordinator
Annie joined the team in May 2025, and has previously worked with the Iona Community and as an Intern with the Joint Public Issues Team. She is most excited and alive when justice and faith come together. Annie is passionate about quiet activism and encouraging people to find ways of responding to injustice that fit them.
Annie is a Methodist and is also part of the Iona Community. She lives in Sheffield, and her two favourite places to be are either outside in the countryside all day, or in her favourite spot on the sofa with a book and a cup of tea.
Alison Breadon
Head of Operations
Alison brings 20 years charity leadership and management experience to JustMoney Movement, including seven years running a Rape Crisis centre in Chester. She has also worked across faith, arts, youthwork, grant making, campaigns and disability sectors.
Alison’s governance experience includes six years as a trustee of Quakers in Britain, holding roles building strategic partnerships, championing anti-oppression, and asking a lot of questions about impact.
A lifelong Quaker, Alison most often worships at Frandley Local Meeting in Cheshire and at Jordans annual Quaker Camp with her family.
Simon Thomson
Campaigns Consultant
Simon is a Campaigns Consultant at JustMoney Movement and an award-winning former BBC reporter, news editor and filmmaker. He specialises in strategic communications on social and environmental issues, and is also part-time Director of Communications at Taxpayers Against Poverty. He previously led communications and public affairs at FareShare, a food waste and poverty charity, and has worked on net zero for a global industry body.
The son of a vicar, Simon is married with two teenage children. He enjoys playing football and following his local team.
Patrons
Bishop Mike Royal
Bishop Mike is the General Secretary of Churches Together in England (CTE). He is the former Co-CEO of Cinnamon Network, a charity helping churches with their community engagement. He was a founding trustee and pioneer with Transforming Lives for Good TLG working with vulnerable children and young people at risk of exclusion from school.
Mike has been in ordained ministry since 1993 and became a Pentecostal Bishop with the Apostolic Pastoral Congress in 2016. He has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to ecumenism at a local, regional and national level. In 1990, he brought legal proceedings challenging the Church Commissioners’ policy on investment, arguing that they gave insufficient weight to ethical concerns arising from the Christian faith. He is the author of 26 books on the interface of Christian faith and wider culture.
The Rt Revd William Kenney
Bishop Kenney was professed in the Passionist Congregation in 1963. After studies for the priesthood, he gained a License in Theology at Heythrop College and was ordained in 1969. He studied sociology and psychology at the universities of Växjö and Gothenburg and worked as a parish priest and academic sociologist within the Catholic Church in Sweden, before pursuing doctoral studies at the LSE. He then lectured in and was Director of Studies at the Dept of Religious Studies in the University of Gothenburg.
Bishop Kenney was ordained bishop in 1987. Besides his duties as Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, he lectures extensively and is a well-known leader of retreats. He served as President of Caritas Europe (1991-95), is a member of the International Dept of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales and represents the Conference in COMECE. He is a member of the Las Casas Advisory Board.
Trustees
Prof Geoff Moore
Chair
Geoff was Professor of Business Ethics at Durham University Business School, where he continues as an Emeritus Professor. He researches into and teaches sustainability and corporate responsibility.
In addition to academic interests in this area, Geoff has maintained a practical interest in corporate responsibility issues largely through the Fair Trade movement. He was for many years the Chair of a small ‘World Shop’ retail outlet in Durham; helped to establish and served on the Council and Board of Shared Interest Society, an ethical investment vehicle established to support the Fair Trade movement; and was also a non-executive director of Traidcraft, the UK’s leading Fair Trade organisation. He continues to serve as a trustee of the Traidcraft closed pension scheme, and is also the chair of the management committee of the William Leech Research Fund.
Geoff is a Reader in the Church of England.
Fr Simon Cuff
Vice-Chair
Fr Simon Cuff is Rector of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, between St Paul’s Cathedral and the Bank of England. He studied Philosophy and Theology and Jewish Studies at Oxford University. His doctoral research was on the reception of Scripture in recent philosophy and critical theory. He has a passion for social justice in every area of life. In his ministry he has had an association with community organising through Citizens UK, working alongside the Living Wage campaign. He was previously Vicar of St Peter de Beauvoir Town in Hackney and Tutor and Lecturer in Theology at St Mellitus College. Fr Simon is also a trustee of Migrants Organise, which seeks to use the tools of organising to help migrant and refugee communities to build their capacity to act in society. He has a keen interest in Catholic Social Teaching, sacramental theology and evangelism, and the use of Scripture in systematic theology and political thought.
Andy Treharne
Andy Treharne joined the board of ECCR in 2022 and is passionate about individuals and organisations using their money ethically. Andy has a decade of experience in financial management within the public sector and he is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
In addition to his role with ECCR, Andy is a member of an advisory body to the trustees of the Student Christian Movement having previously served as the deputy chair of trustees. He lives in Bedfordshire with his wife and 2 young children who keep him on his toes.
Denise Wilkinson
A lifelong member of The Salvation Army, Denise is currently employed at their UK headquarters in London, heading up a team of Salvationists from across the country who work and support local Salvation Army churches understand the principles and benefits of being Generous Disciples.
Denise is an experienced administrator who has worked within the pharmaceutical industry and other commercial businesses in and around London.
Grace Bally-Balogun
Grace is an experienced IT, Change Management and HR professional with a commercial career spanning 20+ years. She is also a Theological Educator, Lecturer in Pastoral Theology, and an Ordinand at St. Mellitus College in London. Grace recently completed her doctorate in “Leadership Transition and The Trinity” at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Cleveland (where she also received an MA in Church Ministries). Grace also has an MA in Christian Leadership (St. Mellitus College/Middlesex University) and an MSc in Computing for Commerce & Industry (Open University).
Grace was a member of Tearfund’s Dream Team from 2017-2018 providing strategic input into Black-Majority Churches strategy. She is the Founder of The Deborah Gathering™ ministries, a network for women in ordained ministry, lay ministry and the marketplace. She was the first Chair of Shell UK Ltd. African Employee Network (2003-2011) and former Chair of Bringing Hope Ltd. She is a Trustee of the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Simeon Mitchell
Simeon has always wanted to change the world, and is committed to working alongside others for social, ecological and economic justice. He currently serves in the Methodist Church as Team Leader of the Joint Public Issues Team of the Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches, supporting the Churches in their political engagement and their witness for justice and peace. His background is in international development, and he has substantial senior-level experience of working across advocacy, policy, communications, marketing, fundraising, campaigning and governance in church and charity contexts.
Simeon is a member and local preacher in the Methodist Church, and lives in Oxford with his wife and three fast-growing children.
Matthew Richards
Matthew is a freelance writer, mainly covering investing and climate change. He spent 20 years in journalism and the investment industry, including spells as a reporter at the Financial Times, strategist at UBS, and senior fund manager at the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church.
Matthew lives in London with his wife and three children, and goes to Our Lady of Lourdes church. He enjoys swimming, cycling, reading, and writing a novel, all of which he does rather slowly.
Sue Richardson
Sue Richardson is newly retired from Christian Aid where she worked for 25 years as a regional staff member in the East Midlands and for the last decade as a theological adviser with a particular focus on working with those in training for both lay and ordained ministerial roles.
She is Roman Catholic, introduced to Liberation Theology in the 1980s and heavily influenced by Latin American approaches to Bible reading and community theologising. She has spent both her working life and her free time in the voluntary sector, serving as a local councillor, setting up local environmental action groups and serving as a Citizen Advice Bureau adviser and trustee. She is married and lives in Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire with six grandchildren within babysitting distance! She grows vegetables and reads voraciously and, despite coming from Sunderland, has no football interest at all!
Jeroen Bromilow
Having spent most of his career as a chartered accountant in financial services, Jeroen is passionate about seeing money being used to drive positive change for both society and the environment. He has extensive experience of the finance function, through working in values-driven organisations such as Triodos Bank and Legal & General, and partnering with institutional clients and pension funds around the world to promote a more inclusive and sustainable finance sector.
Jeroen is currently based in Bristol, where he enjoys being involved in his local church, volunteering with a homelessness charity, and running/cycling in the beautiful surrounding countryside.
Naomi Sterling-Wilson
Naomi has carved out a distinguished career in government and communications. Her experience ranges from managing marketing campaigns to serving as a senior adviser to London’s Deputy Mayor for Communities and Social Justice, as well as to the CEO of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and
Crime. Currently, Naomi works as a Chief of Staff, drawing on her extensive expertise in corporate affairs, communications, governance, and political strategy, all grounded in her deep faith and commitment to driving positive change in her community and society at large.
Naomi serves alongside her husband at NTCG Covenant in Reading. In her spare time, Naomi enjoys exploring new coffee shops and restaurants, often capturing her
culinary adventures on Instagram.
Phoebe Edmonds
Phoebe is a community theatre facilitator based in Liverpool, and director of Grapevine Theatre CIC. She believes art and theatre are the best tools for inspiring change and building communities. She regularly works with and advocates for refugees and asylum seekers, and those in Palestine through events, resources, theatre workshops and arts projects. She is also in the final stages of her masters in Refugee Care.
Phoebe has led and facilitated several programmes to help people understand the power of their money. Recently she used street theatre to educate people at a festival about the reality of checkpoints for Palestinians in the West Bank, alongside a resource to encourage artists to bank and fund their work ethically. Phoebe also enjoys playing rugby, going to the theatre and looking after her gerbils.
Thomas Niblett
Thomas has felt the call of faith and justice for as long as he can remember, living out faith after studying Human, Social and Political Sciences at Selwyn College, Cambridge as a Care Assistant in L’Arche Kent and as an intern for the Joint Public Issues Team.
In 2026 he begins his placement on the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme in South London, and is involved in the Student Christian Movement, Green New Deal Rising and Hinde Street Methodist Church.
Thorne Godinho
Thorne is a non-practising lawyer who is passionate about corporate accountability, ethical business, and inclusive economic growth. He has over a decade of experience working on complex white-collar crime investigations, as well as advising on financial crime compliance and ESG issues. His involvement in high-profile corruption investigations has given him a firsthand understanding of how corporate malfeasance worsens economic inequality and destabilises communities the world over.
Originally from South Africa, Thorne now lives near London. Outside of work, he enjoys exploring the beautiful English countryside, visiting Cathedrals, reading, and volunteering. Unable to shut off his investigative instincts afterhours, he also supports a charity that locates missing people and helps identify the unidentified. Thorne thoroughly enjoys the diversity of traditions within the Church of England, visiting different parishes across West London.
Alicia Mendonca-Richards
Alicia is a theologian and doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores how mysticism can reshape economic thinking and challenge the idea that today’s economic system is inevitable. She writes and speaks about the role of theology, faith, knowledge and community in building a more just and caring economy, and she
recently completed an Elinor Ostrom Fellowship in Political Economy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Before beginning her academic career, Alicia practised media law in London, served on the Executive Committee of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, and carried out legal and human rights work in the West Bank and at the University of Cape Town. Her work is shaped by a longstanding commitment to economic, social and ecological justice and an involvement in Christian communities across different traditions. She has also run an interfaith contemplation group.
Alicia holds an MA in Christian Spirituality from St Mary’s University, an LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Politics, Psychology and Sociology from the University of Cambridge.