All our trustees are volunteers, who work together to further the aims of Global Challenge. We seek to send one trustee per year to visit the work in Soroti.
Angela Harding
Secretary
From a young age Angela heard so much about Africa from her mother who lived there as a child. She went as a volunteer for our Special Needs Project in 2012 and has since had the joy of becoming a Trustee for this invaluable work. As an Education Consultant with expertise in special educational needs, she is able to use her skills to further support the education of pupils with special needs in schools and villages in Soroti.
Anne Cave
Treasurer
Anne has been visiting Northern Uganda since 2000 and has been a trustee since the founding of the charity in 2005. Now retired, she worked in a language school with students from many different countries and would love to see the young people at Crossroads School have similar educational opportunities.
Timothy Shingles
Trustee
.Timothy and his wife Ella first visited Uganda in 2019. Tim was impacted by the hardships faced by children and wanted to support students at Crossroads School, witnessing firsthand how their lives are positively impacted by the opportunity to study along with the knowledge of basic hygiene.
Tim runs an online community that regularly reaches over half a million people each week, is a musician, a music teacher and currently studies the bible at PT Cornhill amongst other things.
Katy Morgan
Trustee
Katy is a qualified teacher but, after bringing up five children, decided to retrain to become a nurse. She qualified in March 2020, just in time to help with COVID. Her first visit to Uganda was in 2023, when she was able to spend a few days in Soroti, and then travelled the country with her children. Katy sponsors a Ugandan boy, her eldest daughter spent 6 months there and she has informally adopted a Ugandan nurse into her family. Therefore, it has been a natural progression to become a Trustee, and Mission Focus Link, for Global Challenge.
Tracey Mason
Trustee
Tracey trained and worked as an Early Years teacher, gaining a Masters qualification in 2015. That same year she visited Uganda, using her experience to entertain the children whilst out on projects and learning much about early education in Uganda. Over the past couple of years, Tracey has taken over the responsibility for the Global Challenge Website, Facebook and Instagram pages and is excited to support the charity further by becoming a trustee.
Brenda McCall
Trustee
Brenda was brought up in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika) where her father was in the colonial Police Force. The family settled back in England in Broadstairs in 1961 when Tanganyika got their independence. Brenda attended Queens Road Baptist Church where she met and later married her husband Terry and they eventually had a daughter and son.
Brenda always had a longing to go back to Africa and in 2000 with her husband was part of a group who went to a small village in Tanzania to work with the people for a month. They made mud bricks which have now been made into a school. In 2005 Brenda & Terry went to Uganda with Global Challenge and Brenda helped to start a tailoring group and worked in schools and nurseries.
Having been a teaching assistant to special needs pupils and then a family liaison officer in schools working with children & families, she has a heart for children & families welfare. It has been such a joy for her to see her daughter Angela (Harding) become involved in Global Challenge with the same heart for the same things. She feels it is a great privilege to be involved in Global Challenge in Soroti and is committed to supporting the projects there.
Stephen Cave
Trustee
Stephen grew up in Wales and shares with many the pains of being a Welsh rugby supporter. Having been a teacher both in the UK and abroad Stephen re-trained and became a Baptist Minister. Since retirement in 2023 Stephen and his wife Anne have been able to travel – something they both love. Alongside his love of rugby is his unending love of jazz, reading, red wine, food and walking.
Stephen has been involved with Global Challenge since 2000 and been able to visit Soroti nearly 20 times since then. Since that first visit, he has had a strong relationship with his Ugandan family and valued so much all that he has learnt from them over the years. Being involved with GC as it has developed and adapted to changing circumstances has been one of the most fulfilling parts of his life and he remains committed to its on-going development.
Brian Langsdon
Trustee
Awaiting information.
TRUSTEES COMMITMENT
Whilst we acknowledge that the link between Global Challenge in the UK and Queens Road Baptist Church in Broadstairs is central to the ethos and direction of the projects and that this should be reflected in the Board of Trustees, we also acknowledge that from time to time, at the discretion of the Trustees, someone who has shown commitment and suitability to and for the work of Global Challenge could be invited to become a Trustee.
We maintain that the majority of the Trustees, including the officers, should be active members of Queens Road Baptist church.
We will always act with integrity, avoiding any conflicts of interest and will ensure the charity is well run and solvent and achieves its objectives within the framework of charity law.
We have a duty of care to use our personal skills and experience to the full and will take professional advice if necessary.
We each have undergone Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks and have adopted the child protection policy of the ‘Churches Child Protection and Advisory Service’.
We are committed to the work of Global Challenge and our partnership with our Ugandan partners.