Fr Charles was ordained in 1998 and has served in parish ministry in Reading and London, currently as vicar of St Bartholomew on Stamford Hill. While an undergraduate he became a regular visitor to the monks of the Society of St John the Evangelist at their priory in Oxford and was admitted to the Fellowship of St John in 2001. He joined the charitable company in 2006 and in 2008 became a trustee. Fr Charles represents SSJE on the governing council of St Stephen’s House, Oxford. He is a canon of the Diocese of Cape Town and Commissary of the Diocese of the Windward Islands – both places where the FSJ serve.

Fr Andrew has been connected to The Fellowship of St. John since 2003 and has been a Parish Priest in the Diocese of Blackburn in Lancashire. Before ordination he was an operational Police Officer and has also worked in Management and Leadership Development. His interests lie in the strategic development of organisations and in workplace ministry. As a Trustee, he plays a key part in developing the Trust’s vision and mission. He is the link person between FSJE (UK) and SSJE in America and is exploring the global work of the Brothers based in Boston alongside that of FSJE.

Fr Stephen is Priest in Charge of St Botolph’s Cambridge and Chair of the FSJ Finance Committee, which oversees all financial matters, including the regular oversight of the performance of the Trust’s investment advisors.

He is the Superior of the Cambridge Ward of the Society of Mary, a Priest Associate of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham and Chair of the Ely Diocese branch of the Prayer Book Society.

Previously he had a long secular career in finance and charities administration. 

Fr John was a Parish Priest and Area Dean in Richmond in the Diocese of Leeds. Prior to ordination he worked as Sales Director of a multi million pounds international textile group, spending much of his time in the Far East. Since retirement from full time ministry he is now Area Dean in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, in addition to local ministry work. Fr John has particular oversight of the St. George’s Trust.

Fr Naylor is the Vicar of St Matthew’s Church, Carver Street in the Diocese of Sheffield. He combines his role as a parish priest with also being 0.5 Missioner in the Diocese. A native of Liverpool, Fr Naylor trained for the priesthood at St Stephen’s House, Oxford before serving his curacy in St Helen Auckland, County Durham. Fr Naylor is also a trustee of the Additional Curates Society, The Church Union, and St Matthew’s House Ltd.

Lady Harris joined the Trust in 2014. She has much involvement in the charity sector and the life of the Church. Lady Harris is a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, former President of the National Association of Chaplains to the Police and is High Steward of Ripon Cathedral. In 1996 she was appointed to the Court of the University of York.

David Ballance recently retired from a career in investment management spanning nearly thirty-eight years, most recently as a Partner at Ruffer LLP. Prior to that he held senior roles at Rothschilds and Threadneedle, having originally graduated from Christ Church Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He originally joined the FSJ Finance Committee as its External Investment Adviser in 2018 before being elected a Trustee in 2021.  He has worshipped at St Alban’s Holborn for twenty-five years where he is Treasurer and a member of the PCC.