In the 11 years prior to his appointment to BibleLands, Nigel held senior management positions within Church Army, where he was its first Director of Marketing, as Communications Secretary with the Church Mission Society and as Founding Executive Director of Willow Creek Association UK.

He had also worked in the charitable sector in the 1970s before his 24 year career in the commercial sector, where he held several senior appointments, as well as acting as a Trustee for several charitable organisations.

Outside BibleLands, Nigel is married with two teenage children.  As a trained musician, he enjoys music of all kinds.  He is also an experienced photographer with a specific interest in landscapes and the British countryside.

Since leaving the WRNS in 1988, Mo Burnley has worked exclusively in the voluntary sector, both here in the UK as well as overseas. Immediately prior to joining BibleLands, she lived and worked for a number of years in the Middle East, where she learnt to speak Arabic.

Mo joined BibleLands in March 1996. Working initially as Personal Assistant to the then Chief Executive, she was appointed to the post of Head of Overseas Operations in January 1998.

Nick Plant is a qualified accounting technician and started his career with a large US multinational heavy engineering company. In 1985, he joined a small office equipment company where, with a business partner, he completed a successful management buyout in 1990 and guided the company through a difficult recession. Nick joined BibleLands in 1997 as part of the Senior Management Team and has been a major player in the implementation and utilisation of the new database and accounting systems.

Nick is also an Anglican priest and currently serves in the Burnham team in the Diocese of Oxford. In his spare time he enjoys singing in a close harmony group with his wife Angela, watching and playing football with his two young sons, and socialising with friends.

Tricia has 20 years' fundraising experience and joined BibleLands' Senior Management Team in April 2005.  Her immediate priority is the development of a new five year Communications and Fundraising strategy to ensure that BibleLands' much needed care of the vulnerable and disadvantaged will continue for as long as it is needed. The strategy will recognise, appreciate and continue to encourage our existing wonderful supporter base, as well as finding, reaching and enthusing a whole new generation of younger supporters.

She says: "During my career I have chosen to work in organisations making a difference to those who are vulnerable and disadvantaged. I am very much drawn to the Christian ethos of BibleLands and am delighted to take on what promises to be a challenging and rewarding role in making that difference to the lives of so many, especially the children, in this troubled region."

Tricia is married with three teenage and grown-up children.

Judy Hackney
"I have lived and worked in London since returning from working in Latin America many years ago. I have worked as a nurse and principally as a health visitor. My main experience and interests lie in the world of children and the disadvantaged or disabled. I have been fortunate to have the experience of travelling quite widely and enjoy meeting people from different countries and backgrounds. I have been a supporter of BibleLands for several years and my interest and commitment increased since attending the Annual Services and going on the BibleLands pilgrimage to Egypt in 2003. I look forward to learning more about the countries and peoples that BibleLands is involved with and seeing what contribution I might make to the work."

Mrs Joanna Robertson
"It was a great privilege to be appointed a Trustee in 2000 and my previous experience enables me to contribute to the work of the Charity. I trained in general and orthopaedic nursing, and in midwifery, and have worked in the NHS, the independent sector and the Department of Health. I retired in 2002. Appointed a Magistrate in 1979, I continue to sit in the Adult and Youth Courts, and I have been a Mental Health Act Manager since 1983."

Joanna is a member of the Anglican church, and currently a churchwarden and Deanery Synod member. She has three daughters – and seven grandchildren so far!

Our Patrons

Rev. Baroness Kathleen Richardson of Calow
Originally trained as a teacher, Baroness Richardson worked in the Methodist Church as a Deaconess and a Lay Worker before being ordained into the Methodist ministry in 1980.

In 1987, she was the first woman to be appointed Chairman of the West Yorkshire District of the Methodist Church. Following a 12-month period as the President of the Methodist Conference, Baroness Richardson was then elected, in 1995, as the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council and President of Churches Together in England. Again, she was the first woman to be elected to this post.

She was honoured in 1996 with an OBE for services to the ecumenical movement and then in 1998, was created a life peer in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. Having been introduced into the House of Lords with the title of the Reverend Baroness Richardson of Calow, she was given early retirement from the Methodist Church in order to be able to spend more time in the House.

In addition to her responsibilities in the House of Lords, Baroness Richardson is also the Moderator for the Churches Commission for Inter Faith Relations and Chair of the Churches Information for Mission.

Baroness Richardson has visited the Holy Land on a number of occasions, the most significant of which was a visit as part of a delegation from the British Council of Churches to look at the effects of the first Intifada.