Our Board

Christian Action is governed by a board of management, who bring their expertise to the Association.

Chair - Aaron John

Chair - Aaron John

Aaron is an experienced housing professional with extensive asset management, responsive repairs, voids, planned works, facilities management, compliance and health and safety experience within the social housing sector in a strategic and operational setting.

Gary Clark

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Gary has over 20 years’ experience as a Director and more recently as a CEO in social housing, specialising in property, customer engagement and transforming service models.

Tawana Joseph

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Tawana is a Christian Action tenant with a passion for affordable housing and helping individuals thrive within their communities. Tawana works in financial services, supporting Execs and Non-Exec Directors and has experience of corporate governance.

Quentin Baker

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Quentin has practised as a solicitor for over 20 years and is currently Chief Legal Officer for Herts County Council. He has also held a number of Trustee and Non-Executive Board roles for companies and not for profit organisations and has a wealth of experience in corporate governance and public law.

Jonathan Bunt

Jonathan Bunt

Jonathan is a qualified accountant and former Finance Director in local government who now specialises in advising on the funding and financial structuring of affordable homes.  In addition to being on the Board of Christian Action, he holds a number of other non executive roles with both housing associations and local authorities.

Philip Cunningham 

Philip Cunningham 

Philip has civil engineering, project management, commercial director and governance (school/education) expertise. Has run his own consultancy for 25 years through which he has acted as Commercial Director for the £100 million plus Luton Dunstable Busway and as Project Manager for other large regeneration projects.

Charles Brooks

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Charles has 35 years work experience within the housing and charity sectors. Accrued a wealth of experience, particularly in digital transformation, data, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement and governance. 

Anna Simmonds

Anna Simmonds

As an internal audit professional, Anna’s experience focuses on governance, risk and control.  She has worked with the social housing sector for 10 years. Her 20+ internal audit career means Anna also has experience of working with central and local government, charities and corporates.

Cornelius Sanwo

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Cornelius is a  seasoned  finance professional with a keen interest in supporting the delivery of Boards’ Corporate vision, mission, strategies within the UK social housing sector. He has decades of experience with a diverse mix of organisations; from large to small entities and generalists to leading specialists.

Symon Sentain

Symon Sentain

Symon is a property and housing-led regeneration expert, working as chief executive, programme director and executive director at a number of housing and regeneration companies. Symon has extensive trustee and non-executive director experience serving on boards across the not for profit, private & charity sectors.