Humanism in Action 2024 | Cardiff

ANDROW BENNETT | Swyddog Iaith Gymraeg (Welsh Language Officer)

Androw is a celebrant, school speaker, Standing Advisory Committe on Religious and Values Education (SACRVE) representative, pastoral carer, and Welsh language officer and translator for Wales Humanists.

ANN-MICHELLE BURTON | Head of People

Ann-Michelle joined Humanists UK in 2022. Ann-Michelle’s role is to lead on all aspects related to our people’s experience of working or volunteering with us. She oversees our people strategy and associated activities, including staff and volunteer engagement, recruitment, leadership, learning and development, and our people brand. She works alongside our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Action Group to promote EDI across the workforce. As Head of People, she also oversees HR for the staff team.

ANDREW COPSON | Chief Executive

Andrew is Chief Executive of Humanists UK. He became Chief Executive in 2010 after five years coordinating Humanists UK’s education and public affairs work. Andrew is also current President of Humanists International.

He is the author of Secularism: A Very Short Introduction and, with Alice Roberts, The Little Book of Humanism, The Little Book of Humanist Weddings, and The Little Book of Humanist Funerals.

MADELEINE GOODALL | Humanist Heritage Coordinator

Madeleine is the Humanist Heritage Coordinator for Humanists UK, researching and writing about the history of humanism to celebrate the organisation’s 125th birthday. She has a background in education, museums, and community history, and is also Humanists UK’s Wikimedian in Residence. She currently leads on a two-year National Lottery Heritage Fund project – Humanist Heritage: doers, dreamers, place makers – which focuses on the remarkable freethinkers and activists who changed the world, and the communities they built around them.

GUY HIRST | Communications Manager

Guy is the Communications Manager at Humanists UK, and is responsible for the execution and management of a diverse range of public and member-facing communications to promote understanding of humanism; attract new supporters; market Humanists UK’s campaigns, products, and services; and further our overall brand and reputation.

He leads on creating and distributing digital and print content for Humanists UK, including organic social media posts, paid social, campaign graphics, print adverts, leaflets, newsletters, and a wide range of online interviews, stories, articles, and features, promoting the full gamut of Humanists UK’s campaigns, products, and services.

SNÉHA KHILAY | Managing Director, Blue Tulip Consultancy

Snéha is a specialist diversity and management/leadership consultant working in the UK and internationally. She has provided training and consultancy support to a wide range of organisations over the past 20 years. She has advised board members, CEOs, executive directors, and senior managers on how to develop a strategic and operational approach to problem solving, particularly in relation to the changing stance on leadership diversity, inclusion, and unconscious bias.

Her focus, using effective communication skills, is on supporting organisations and the leadership team on how to ‘bridge the gap’, to create a better understanding of inclusive practices especially in relation to language, behaviour and attitudes/expectations. Snéha helps identify and implement effective solutions to their organisation-related ‘diversity dilemmas’.

STUART McCULLOUCH | Pastoral carer

Stuart became a humanist in 2015 shortly after retiring from paid occupations including 25 years in the Royal Air Force followed by marketing and project management roles in the defence industries and a short time in education. He joined the Defence Humanists group and was soon working in its committee. In parallel he trained as a School Speaker and later was accredited by the Non-Religious Pastoral Support Network. He is shortly to be inducted into a prison chaplaincy team and a community hub offering non-religious pastoral support. Other interests include membership of a Welsh male voice choir and his local Rotary Club.

WAYNE MILLS | Local Group Volunteer Coordinator

Wayne is the Local Group Volunteer Coordinator at Humanists UK. He is responsible for mentoring and supporting Humanists UK Local Group volunteers, supporting them with the day to day activities of their role, and making use of Humanists UK systems. He supports their annual planning, and volunteer recruitment, helping to ensure that necessary roles are identified and filled and the committee has the required skills to deliver their annual plan.

JOANNA MUTLOW | Pastoral carer

Jo Mutlow had a first career in learning disability, then a second in academia, but feels very lucky to have happened upon pastoral care as her twilight career. After undoing the myth that she had  to be a Christian to do the role, she found the NRPSN and then elbowed her way into volunteering. Volunteering made her realise that the door to non-religious people was not as open as it might be, and that it was only through paid posts thatwe could influence change.

A bank role in a mental health trust led to a more substantive appointment at Bradford Foundation Hospital Trust where she designed a pastoral care web app. During Covid, Jo wrote Being There: Responses in Humanist Pastoral Care and she podcasts with a Church of England minister at Opening Up Chaplaincy. Jo lives in Sheffield and is trying to retire, but so many interesting things come up and there is so much yet to do!

TERRI O’SULLIVAN | Apostate Services Development Officer

Terri is the Apostate Services Development Officer for Faith to Faithless, Humanists UK’s programme of support that raises awareness around the issues apostates face, provides socials and facilitated peer support specifically for apostates, and runs apostate awareness training for service providers and other third parties who in turn support apostates. 

Terri delivers and develop social groups and peer support groups for apostates, and delivers and grows our training programme for professionals. 

JEREMY RODELL | Dialogue Officer

Jeremy Rodell is Humanists UK’s volunteer Dialogue Officer. Among his other hats, he’s a school speaker, humanist representative on Hounslow Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education, Chair of South West London Humanists, a member of Kingston Faith and Belief Forum, and of Richmond Faith and Belief Forum, where he’s Vice Chair.