The Baptist Union has a Trustee board made up of twelve members elected by the Council. The role of the trustees is to provide strategic direction for our Union, ensure appropriate policies are in place and operated effectively, to oversee the Union's structure and to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

They meet four times a year, and invite people to join them to advise on particular matters.

The Key Role Nominations Team takes a lead in discovering, discerning and recognising key leaders to serve in various ways throughout Baptists Together, including identifying possible new Trustees.  For more information about the Team, or to make a nomination, please click here.

The Trustee Governance Handbook can now be found here.

For more information on our current trustees, see below:
 

	Andrew Cowley is senior minister of Leigh Road Baptist Church, Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. His background includes Business Management and Development with specialisms in leadership development & implementation, organisational & strategy design and project management.  He has previously worked for CPAS (an Anglican mission agency) where he was involved in senior management and leadership development and was formally on the management team of TEAR Fund.  Andrew is also involved in coaching and mentoring leaders from the commercial world, as well as the church and wider not-for-profit sector. He has previously served as a  member of the Baptist Missionary Society council of reference, has been a primary school governor and has been involved in the formation of two charities. Andrew is passionate about his family, the local church, flying kites, photography and Rugby Union.
	Lynn Green is General Secretary of the Baptist Union.
	Jeniya Gwendu, comes from a sporting background having been an athlete and a netball player. She held several positions in the Sporting Industry such as being a sports tutor, the Chairperson of Women In Sport  Board, the national team manager for Zimbabwe's under 21 netball team and was also the organising secretary for the Zimbabwe Netball Association.  It was through her work of empowering women through Sport that she was awarded a scholarship to go and study Sports Management in Sweden and Finland. Whilst there she challenged herself to do the 10 mile 'Je Mile' race and became the first and only woman from Africa to participate in this race at the time. She also holds a BSc Hons in Sport Health and Exercise and is currently practising as a Practitioner in Swedish and Deep Tissue Massage. Jeniya is married to Gilson and works alongside him as he pastors the Church in Cranbrook Baptist Church in Ilford. They have also led churches in East Sussex, Essex and Cambridge.  Besides working alongside her husband, Jeniya has also served the wider Baptist Church family through podcasts, writing articles, being a member of the Ministerial Recognition Committee and preaching in various churches. Jeniya was the Moderator for the Eastern Baptist Association having served in the EBA Council for 5 years. Outside of the Baptist Family she has been invited to speak at ecumenical women's groups. She sees her gifts as that of encouraging, building and edifying others and promoting justice.  Jeniya has four children and three grandchildren who keep her young and active. She loves food, fashion, crocheting, travelling and watching sport.
	Phil Jump graduated from Liverpool Polytechnic as a marine electrical engineer and worked for 9 years at Cammell Laird Shipbuilders, where he eventually became Material Control Manager, overseeing the transition to a computerised material procurement and management system. After leaving Spurgeon’s College, he served as minister at New Addington Baptist Church, an area of significant social need on the edge of Croydon. During that time, as well as helping the church to grow, he led several community initiatives which included chairing the community partnership, launching a community magazine and chairing one of the UK’s first Education Action Zones. He was also the founder and creative director of Crossroads Theatre Company. Phil has been Regional Minister for NWBA since 2001, serving a diverse community of local churches and ministers in a variety of contexts. He was one of the original BUGB trustees, standing down when his youngest daughter, Emma was born in 2010. He has also served on the Baptist Strategy Forum, Futures Steering Group, Transitional Steering Group and Baptist Steering Group. He also led the BUGB “IGNITE” ministry review, worked for 2 years as the Baptist lead on the Joint Public Issues team and has served as a member of Council for over 20 years. He is a trustee of several charities and is chair of the historic Industrial Christian Fellowship, made famous through the work of Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy and William Temple. Phil is married to Jan, they have three grown up children, and he is an avid supporter of Liverpool Football Club.
	Suzie Leveson is an HR Consultant and Leadership Coach working with multiple organisations and leaders across the UK. Suzie was HR Director for a world-renowned performing and creative arts School before becoming self employed.  Having worked in HR for 20 years, starting out at Tearfund Suzie has learnt a lot about people, the expected and the unexpected and these days there is not much that phases her when it comes to life with people! Over the years Suzie has been involved in most areas of church life: youth and children’s work, inter church youth services, worship, leading small groups and Alpha. She is currently a Trustee for CYM and previously served for 4 years as a Trustee of Spurgeon’s College. Suzie was born in Switzerland whilst her father was training to be a Baptist Minister, and her life has been a Baptist one ever since! After moving back to the UK when she was young, she grew up in West London where her Dad was the minister of a Baptist Church for many years. Suzie met her husband at church when he moved to town for University. They have been married for 27 years and are part of the East Midlands Baptist Association.
	Philip Lutterodt serves as a Christian minister in Theological Education and Pastoral Ministry.  He is involved in mentoring emerging leaders to serve God in the family, church and society.  His education is in Psychology and Theology and his research interests are in Leadership Studies, Global South Christianity, and the interface between Theology and Psychology.  Philip has pastored churches in Ghana, Switzerland and England and has lectured in theological institutions in Ghana and England.  He has carried out itinerant ministry in the United States, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
	Peter King is the Moderator of the Board of Trustees.  His last role was as the Legal Director at HM Treasury, where he led a team of some 100 people providing legal advice to ministers and civil servants.  He had this role from 2017 to 2025.  Prior to that, he was a lawyer in private practice, advising on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and governance. Peter is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of PERSUIT, a legal software company.  He is a director of Mission Housing, which facilitates mission, primarily in London, by the provision of housing for Christian workers.  He is also a director of a multi-academy trust operating ten schools in north London, chair of Riot Ensemble, a contemporary music group, and a director of Advocates for International Development, which enables lawyers to support development work around the world.  He is the Church Secretary of Chatsworth Baptist Church and an occasional lay preacher and service leader. He is married to Sarah, with three adult children and two grandchildren.  His other interests include cooking, classical music, theatre and travel.
	Philip McCormack is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Spurgeon’s College, London. Established in 1856 by Charles Haddon Spurgeon the college is one the leading Higher Education Theological Colleges in the UK. Previously, Prof McCormack was an Assistant Chaplain General in the British Army and its academic lead on ethics nationally and internationally. He articulated the ethical foundation of the British Army and created a practical model of ethics widely embraced, taught and used within the Army and the Royal Marines. An accredited BUGB Baptist minister Prof McCormack holds PhDs from The Queen’s University of Belfast in New Testament and Cranfield University in Philosophy and Strategic Studies. He is the Chair of an International Prize Committee for Military Ethics and is an Honorary Professor of Practical Ethics, in the Institute of Health and Society, the University of Worcester. In December 2017, his application to be appointed as Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy was approved.
	Mohan Pandian was born in Malaysia and lived there until he completed his O Levels. He came to the UK in 1979 to complete his higher education and obtained his indefinite leave to remain in 1989. He is married to Amanda and they have four children aged between 29 and 21.  Parenting has been a never ending and rewarding learning journey. Whilst in Malaysia, he attended a Tamil Methodist Church in Kuala Lumpur. When he came over to London, he initially stopped attending church but after moving to Wembley, found Sudbury Baptist Church. He started attending in April 2000 and after his conversion at a mission event which was run by the church, he was baptised and became a member in 2021. He currently serves both as a Deacon and Treasurer at the Church. Mohan was a member of the working group reviewing the BU subscription model and also delivered a seminar for the Small Churches Group in London.  Mohan is a Chartered Accountant and joined Ernst & Young in 1986. His career at Ernst & Young has been in audit and he became an Associate Partner in 2001 and a Non Equity Partner in 2022. Outside of work and church, Mohan serve as a Governor in a special needs primary school in Ealing and volunteers as a football coach with a charity coaching children between the ages of 6 and 10 twice a week. He completed his FA Coaching qualification in 2010.
	Mark Spriggs has been working across the Public and Charitable sectors for the last 20 years, having graduated from King Alfred’s College of HE (now University of Winchester) with a degree in History and Sport Studies. Having felt called, with his family, he moved to St Helens to join the Baptist Church there in 2016 from Oxford.  His wife is beginning training to be a Baptist minister at Northern Baptist College in September 2018. Mark was involved in two church plants with New Frontiers before joining St Helens Baptist Church, one in Birmingham, where he lived in one of the most deprived areas in the country, and Oxford. He has a passion for seeing churches grow and thrive and in 2017 spoke at the ‘Growing Churches Forum’ with the memorable quote of “Constitutions Rock!!” He recommends the book The Trellis and the Vine by Colin Marshall to help support growth. Mark has worked for the Civil Service in regeneration, NHS in a variety of roles - currently as a Transformation Programme Manager, Oxford City Council in social regeneration as well as supporting local charities, and a number of other roles. He served as Governor and Chair of Governors for a local Primary school for a number of years. Mark and his wife have 3 children, one who has just married and two teenagers. Mark loves to cook and exercise hospitality, particularly to build the relationships at the heart of community. He is a film buff and a proud aficionado of the Star Wars universe, particularly the action figures.
	Shayla Waugh.  After adventures as a primary school teacher of children with special needs and in the mainstream, and as a teacher of teachers, Shayla tried to avoid following her father, uncle and grandfather into Baptist ministry … and failed.  She has a Welsh degree, tries not to speak French and does speak a rural version of a sub-dialect of Arabic that is only spoken in one country in the world.  She lived and worked in the Occupied Territories of Israel and then Jerusalem for half a decade, followed by five years in France and North Africa with BMS World Mission. Having been in pastorate in a small Baptist fellowship in a small Somerset town for five and a half years (during which time she had the privilege of being the Chair of the Resolutions Committee of the European Baptist Federation) she and others decided it would be a great idea to embark on a practical theology PhD. The “others” still think it is a great idea but she’s not so sure as she juggles family commitments, working in a school for children with autism as a teaching assistant and trying to complete the study! Shayla is a Companion of the Northumbria Community and passionate about healthy, active, spiritual formation, for herself and others.  She has a desire for a fullness of life, lived fully, at home and in relationship with others – in the Baptist family, the wider Christian family, and the human family - wherever connections can be made and nurtured.  She is resolutely Baptist and yet resolutely convinced that we have much to learn from other members of our Christian family.