Role
My role, working with an assistant, is to support the Warden and the Operations Manager in all areas of administration, secretarial and logistics support, ensuring effective communications between all departments on Iona and liaising with admin and finance colleagues in Glasgow.
Biography
I’m a Chartered Civil Engineer with a career in technical and project management in the water industry at home and abroad. This included spells in Japan and South Africa. Having decided to finish that career last year I came to Iona as a volunteer for a couple of two-month stints as Sacristan and then in Housekeeping which has given me a good understanding of our community life at the Abbey. With my wife Helen who will be working in the Shop I’ve moved from Ilkley (yes – Baht’at!) to Iona to help provide a warm welcome to our guests. I enjoy making music and have a passion for the plight of the Palestine people.
What moves me
I’m moved when people come to Iona as strangers and leave as friends and the depth of some of those friendships.
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