Mark Hoban (Chair)

Mark Hoban is an experienced chair in the financial services sector. He works at the intersection of business, public policy and regulation. He currently chairs Pay.UK which operates the UK’s main inter-bank payment systems and the Financial Services Skills Commission which fosters co-operation between firms within the sector to reskill their staff. He has recently retired as chair of Flood Re and the Jersey Financial Services Commission. He has an inclusive approach to building teams and ensures organisations remain true to their purpose. Between 2001 and 2015, he was the Member of Parliament for Fareham. He was a government minister between 2010 and 2013. It was whilst as a minister at the Department for Work and Pensions that he first visited the Centre because of his interest in our work in helping people back into work. This was the start of a lasting connection with the Centre. He was co-opted onto the Finance and Risk Committees and became the Centre’s Chair in January 2024. As a local resident, he understands the need for an early, preventative approach to tackling the deep-seated issue of homelessness in London.

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Humphrey Lloyd

Humphrey is the Treasurer. He is an experienced service sector finance director, charity treasurer and non-executive director. He aims to use his skills and experience to promote ethical, social and Christian goals, to which end he is also treasurer of Asylum Welcome, a charity helping asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants, and treasurer of his local Anglican church. He was formerly chair of Future Biogas, the UK's leading biomethane producer. He chairs the Centre's Finance and Risk Committees.

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Bishop Nicholas Hudson

Bishop Nicholas Hudson was ordained Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Westminster in 2014. He has particular pastoral responsibility for the parishes of East and Central London in the Deaneries of Camden, Hackney, Islington, Marylebone, Tower Hamlets and Westminster; and oversight of Evangelisation, Catechesis, Marriage & Family Life, Justice & Peace, and Young People. In the Bishops’ Conference he is Episcopal Secretary and Chair of the Department for International Affairs.

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Clea Harmer

Clea has been a supporter of the Cardinal Hume Centre for over 15 years and has always admired the Centre’s wonderful work. Professionally, she is the Chief Executive of Sands, a charity which saves babies’ lives and provides bereavement care and support to parents and families. She also currently Chairs the Maternity and Neonatal Programme Stakeholder Council, and also the National Bereavement Care Pathway.

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Mark Doran

Mark has been a Trustee since 2019 and a volunteers at the Centre since he moved to London 15 years earlier, when he was shocked at the scale of homelessness. Mark wanted to offer his skills to support the Centre’s critical work in tackling these issues. Having spent 15+ years as a civil servant in various government departments, Mark then moved to local government and is currently Executive Director for Growth & Environment at Hertfordshire County Council.

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Philomena Egan

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Rebekah Etherington

Rebekah is an HR professional with over 30 years’ experience in the financial services sector. She is currently Group Head of HR for Close Brothers, a UK merchant banking group. Previously she led HR for RBS Global Banking and Markets in the Americas, having started her career at Ernst and Young. Her interest in poverty and homelessness started when she read an account of an individual who had had a successful career but became homeless when their marriage broke up. This sparked an interest in understanding the root causes of homelessness. Rebekah's involvement with the Cardinal Hume Centre began when she went online to donate and saw the Centre was looking for a Trustee with an HR background. The Centre's Benedictine ethos that each person matters and its mission to help families, children and young people to overcome poverty and avoid homeless resonated. Rebekah became a Trustee in 2019.

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Samanthi Flanagan

Samanthi Flanagan is head of outreach at St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Soho, offering daily hospitality for people experiencing homelessness and poverty. Samanthi volunteers with the Catholic chaplaincy at HMP Pentonville, providing pastoral care to Catholic men in prison. As a Trustee she is committed to the innate value of every person facing difficulty who can find welcome, encouragement and empowerment at the Centre.

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Simon Enright

Simon Enright is a communications professional currently the Director of Communications for the Ministry of Defence. He has previously worked with TM King Charles and Queen Camilla through the accession and as Director of Communications with NHS England during the pandemic. Simon has been a Governor and Chair of Governors at several Catholic primary schools. He is currently co-chair of the St Charles and St Mary's Catholic Primary school federation.

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Tim Walsh

Tim Walsh is an economic consultant to the postal, express and ecommerce sectors, globally. Dr Walsh is a former Vice President and Director at Pitney Bowes and Royal Mail where led strategic, commercial and regulatory projects across the EU, Asia Pacific and the Americas. Tim joined the Board of the Centre in 2019 to support the delivery of high-quality services to some of society’s most vulnerable people, including those starting out after leaving local authority care.

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Victoria McGuire

Specialising in behaviour change communications for government and charities, Vicky brings over twenty years’ experience devising and delivering impactful campaigns across health, social justice and education. Having worked across Whitehall on national policies to improve the health and education of young people and their families, she became a Trustee at the Cardinal Hume Centre to support an organisation dealing with those issues on the frontline.

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