About Hope 

HOPE 2008 Board of Reference

We are excited that the following people agreed to support HOPE by joining our Board of Reference.

  • Matt Baggott CBE: Chief Constable of Leicestershire & Association of Chief Police Officers

  • Lord John Stevens: former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service

  • Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP: Chief Secretary to HM Treasury

  • Caroline Spelman MP: Shadow Communities & Local Government

  • Steve Webb MP: Health Spokesman

  • Most Rev Dr Rowan Williams: Archbishop of Canterbury

  • His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor: Archbishop of Westminster

  • Rev David Coffey OBE: President of the Baptist World Alliance

  • Commissioner Elizabeth Matear: Moderator elect of Free Churches Group

  • Rev Joel Edwards: General Director of Evangelical Alliance

  • Rev Nicky Gumbel: Alpha

  • Fran Beckett OBE: CEO of Church Urban Fund