Team
Facilitating Team
Gather Movement works with a town or city by invitation and welcome, developing friendships and trust as we serve together – there for the long-haul because we believe in the long-term journey. We love to tell the stories of town and city transformation to encourage and inspire and provide a safe space for shared learning, together.

Roger Sutton
Founder and Joint CEO
Roger is Founder and joint CEO of Gather Movement and is a Global Hub Leader for MOVEMENT.ORG.
Roger previously served the Borough of Trafford in Manchester as co-chair of the Trafford Local Strategic Partnership and chair of the Stronger Communities Board for Trafford Council in Manchester; he also led the Covid crisis response group across Trafford.
Roger previously led Altrincham Baptist church in Manchester for 22 years.
He is married to Lesley and they have four grown-up children.

Andy Frost
Joint CEO
Andy is Joint CEO for Gather Movement and is also our regional connector for London. Andy is also Director of Share Jesus International and has been supporting city-wide missions and community festivals for the past 15 years.
Andy is married to Jo and they have two young daughters.

Dave King
Strategic Director
Dave King is Strategic Director for Gather Movement and heads up prayer strategy and our team of Regional Connectors.
Dave is also director of Kingdom Voice in Salford where he has lived and ministered for many years and is on the Enabling Team for both the National and Greater Manchester Movement for Recovery.
He is married to Karen and they have a daughter called Lizzie, who’s married to John.

Kay Grieves
Operations Director
Kay joined the Gather Movement team in 2020 as Operations Director. Kay previously worked in project and programme management within the technology and environmental consultancy sectors.
She is married to Chris and they have two teenage children.

Lesley Sutton
Creative Director/Trustee
Lesley is a visual artist and director of PassionArt, a charity that encourages and nurtures art and spirituality and the recovery of beauty within the Church and community.
Lesley has four grown-up children and nine grandchildren.

Jenna Casey
Digital Communications Exec
Jenna is also on the leadership team of Coulby Newham Baptist Church and previously worked for YFC.
Jenna is based in the Northeast and is married to Aaron.

Stephen Sutton
Associate
Stephen is also part of the Middlesbrough and Teesside church unity movements. Stephen is married to Leah and they have 4 children.

Ian Rutherford
Associate
Ian is the City Centre Minister at Methodist Central Hall, Manchester. Ian is Faith Sector Lead of the Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network and GM Homelessness Programme Board, Chair of the Greater Manchester Food Security Action Network, a Trustee of the Greater Manchester Mayor`s Charity and on the Leadership Team of Citizens UK and Greater Manchester Citizens. He has a passion for Jesus and for Justice.
Ian is on the national Movement for Recovery Core Team and leads on the Movement for Homelessness and Housing.
Ian is married to Joanna and they have three children.

Steve Botham
Associate
Steve is married to Carol and they have 2 grown-up children.

Osoba Otaigbe
Associate
Osoba is based in Manchester and has three children.

Tani Omedeyi
Trustee

Dave Kirby
Trustee

Peter Heywood
Trustee
He is married to Jackie, and they have 2 daughters and 5 grandchildren.
Wider Team

Hannah Buck
Chief Officer of Transforming Notts Together; Christian Action Nottingham

Sian Wade
Senior Leader, Bridge Church Lincoln; Active Faith Lead for Transform Lincoln

Andy Street
Chair of Christian Action Bristol; Director SLR Consulting Limited

Roger Allen
Together4Bristol, networking across the spheres of life to help "set God's people free" to bring transformation across the whole of Bristol. Life coach.

Les Isaac
Founder and CEO of Ascension Trust, pioneered Street Pastors in the UK in 2003, honorary Ecumenical Canon at Southwark Cathedral.

Alan Magness
Serves in leadership in Transform Reading; Chair of Linking Lives UK; previously Partnership Coordinator for Reading Borough Council

Deb Fozzard
Director, Sunderland Connect Network

Christina Omideyi
A Barrister by profession, chair of Trustees, The OK Foundation, Coordinator, Pray Haringey

Lloyd Cooke
Chief Executive, Saltbox

S Tranter
A medic and prayer warrior! Also keenly interested in uniting Bristol churches in a corporate vision for transformation.
Advisory Team

Paula Stringer
CEO, Christians Against Poverty

Martin Frost CBE
Co-founder, CMR Surgical

Craig Sider
President and CEO, MOVEMENT.ORG

PAUL WILLIAMS
CEO, Bible Society

Rev Celia Apeagyei-Collins
Founder and President, The Rehoboth Foundation

Ian Shelton
Movement Day Hub Leader for the Pacific Region and Chair of the MD Australia committee

David Dorricott
Managing Director, AFD Software

Gavin Calver
CEO, Evangelical Alliance