About Us

Our aims and our team

• We’re raising awareness of the need to tackle poverty and ways of doing so
• We’re coordinating & developing networks to build relationships between projects, agencies and churches to increase effectiveness
• We’re motivating & mobilising church groups to serve their local community to help tackle poverty

We aim to help tackle poverty by transforming the lives of the poorest and most marginalised in our communities in the Southwell and Nottinghamshire Diocese. Under Areas of Work you'll find the themes we are tackling.
TNT is going about this by:

Raising awareness of poverty and its impact on children, people and communities and providing mechanisms for others to respond effectively to mitigate such impact
Acting as a catalyst to increase effectiveness and collaboration, working with existing and new projects that help to tackle poverty
Increasing, motivating and mobilising church communities to consider how they can contribute to, engage with, and best serve their local community to help tackle poverty - transforming the lives of the poorest and most marginalised around them

Under Initiatives you'll be able to explore the networks, organisations and churches we work with.

We'd like your church to get involved tackling poverty - for you It Starts Here.

TNT is a joint venture between the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham and The Church Urban Fund (CUF), and part of the national Together Network of 20 faith-based ventures driven by the desire to tackle social inequality across England. TNT is led by trustees and staffed by development workers. It has developed expertise and established a niche role drawing together partners from the faith, voluntary and statutory sectors to achieve its aims.

We give thanks for everyone who supports this work in whatever way.

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Our team

Hannah Buck

Development Worker - I joined TNT in 2014, working 3 days a week. My role includes: developing future TNT work, coordinating networks, running workshops and being the area coordinator for Places of Welcome.

Lauren Simpson

Assistant Development Worker - I joined TNT in 2018 & work three days a week. My role focuses on developing church-led Social Eating and Holiday Food Provision in the county & workshops including Cash Smart, Credit Savvy.

Trustees

David McCoulough

TNT Chairperson - I'm Director of Partnerships and Mission for the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, helping the Anglican Church in the city and the county to work with partners from the public, voluntary, business and wider faith sectors to tackle poverty and isolation.

Colin Bullett

Treasurer and company secretary - now a retired chartered public finance accountant.

John Chambers

Trustee - Retired from running my own business, which helped companies to improve their performance in innovation and creativity.

Sam Crawford

Trustee - I'm chief executive officer of The Friary Drop in Centre, along with a range of other roles.

Tim Heeley

Trustee - A former broadcast journalist and public relations consultant, I've held contracts with SMEs and all levels of Government. I'm a leader at Keyworth Baptist Church and curate a website about Discipleship.

Ruth Marlow

Trustee - I've served in Local Government from housing manager to chief executive and am currently the Diocesan Secretary of Coventry Diocese.

Jon Miles

Trustee - I'm development manager for Church Urban Fund, have a background in regeneration and community development work, with experience of working in the private, public and charity sectors.

Liam O’Boyle

Trustee - I'm partnerships officer for the diocese, with unique insight into working with churches, other faiths, third sector organisations and statutory organisations.

Kat Osborn

Trustee - I'm chief executive officer with Safe Families for Children.

Church Urban Fund

TNT is a Joint Venture between the Church Urban Fund (CUF) and the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham and is part of the Together Network, which involves 20 similar independent organisations working in deprived areas, England-wide, all supported by the Church Urban Fund.

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Together Network

The Together Network is an alliance of 21 charities known as joint ventures linked by faith and driven by the desire to see communities flourish throughout England.