Emily leads the team at The Welcome Directory – an organisation empowering faith & belief communities to welcome prison leavers. Emily is passionate about engaging communities to be agents of change and strives to challenge the public stigma and damaging narrative that exists towards prison leavers in England and Wales.

Following graduation from Moorlands College, Gareth has worked in university student ministry and in the sphere of church engagement with politics. With Bible Society, he leads the Church Engagement Team working across different denominations and spiritualities to encourage deeper Bible engagement and application.

Formerly president of Baptists Together, Ken is a leading voice in the whole-life discipleship movement. As LICC’s Director of Church Relationships, Ken is responsible for leading their work with churches and church leaders. Ken’s book, Vital Signs, unpacks practical ways church leaders can embed whole-life disciplemaking in all they do.

Steve, alongside his wife Angie, is senior pastor of The C3 Church, a UK multisite church based across East Anglia and online. Steve has taught in different contexts and works with different streams and churches teaching and advising on the local church. As a gifted communicator, Steve has a conviction to change the perception of Church and loves to challenge people’s mindsets of what Church should be.

Angie is a wife, mother, nana, senior pastor, speaker, teacher, life-thrive coach and co-director of The Global Leadership Network UKI. She is also founder of The Breathe Collective, a vibrant, creative and empowering space designed to help women realise their full potential. Her days are filled with reading, prayer, strategising, mentoring, building genuine friendships (not just networking!) and lovingly knitting sweaters for her grandchildren.

Ben is the vicar of St. Michael's church - a messy (!) but joyful community in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Alongside his day job, he heads up The Kindling Network, a CofE initiative connecting clergy to ignite church growth across our nation.

Catherine is CEO of Prison Fellowship England & Wales, a speaker, justice advocate, and Elim Pentecostal minister. She has led churches, worked with prison ministries, and served on several charity boards. She's passionate about inspiring and equipping the Church to pursue justice, care for those who are marginalised, and transform society.

She will be speaking in the seminar about prison ministry on Tuesday evening.

Bob is an accredited Baptist Minister who has served in prison ministry for more than 30 years. He leads the support, care and faith endorsement of the 220 Free Church prison chaplains across the country as well as serving as a trustee of The Welcome Directory. Bob is committed to seeing prison chaplaincy bring lasting change to the lives of prisoners, their families and the wider communities to which they will ultimately return with hope, dignity and humanity.

He will be speaking in the seminar about prison ministry on Tuesday evening.

Guy has spent his life as a business consultant and church leader, provided consultancy support to church networks and a holiday retreat for Christian leaders to receive soul care. Recently bereaved (and remarried), he shares his story of hope for those suffering with loss and trauma.

Stephen joined PwC in 2014, working in financial services. He chairs PwC Christians, which has 700+ UK members - encouraging and equipping Christians to live for Jesus at work and engaging the firm on faith matters. He attends Crossway Stratford church and lives with his wife, Dzvina, a cat, and 7 chickens.