Advisors

Dr Catherine Monteith

Medical Adviser

Catherine qualified from Peninsula Medical School and spent the first part of her career working in Devon and Cornwall. She spent time working in Yorkshire and rural Northumberland before moving to Central Scotland where she started her career in General Practice. She has now returned to her native Northern Ireland where she is a practicing GP in a large, city centre surgery. She is interested in improving health inequalities in Northern Ireland and encouraging more collaborative working between primary and secondary care.

Andrew Trotman

Education Adviser

Andrew graduated with an MA in English and PGCE from Oxford. His career included: teacher at Radley College; housemaster at Abingdon School; Deputy Rector at Edinburgh Academy; Headmaster at St Peter's School, York; and warden at St Edward's School, Oxford. He is a governor two schools, including being Chair of a Church of England Primary School in the Diocese of Coventry.

Bill Seddon

Investment Committee Adviser

Bill was Chief Executive of the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church and its wholly owned subsidiary, Epworth Investment Management. Currently, he is a trustee director of the Methodist Church Lay Employees’ Pension Scheme, the Northumbria Community Trust and the William Leech Foundation. He was a member of the General Synod for 11 years during which time he served on the Archbishops’ Council Remuneration and Conditions of Service Committee and was a trustee director of the Church of England Pensions Board.