About Us
Our Team

Rt Rev’d Rob Wickham

Robert Wickham has been Bishop of Edmonton since September 2015.

Since his ordination as a Deacon, Rob has always served in the Diocese of London. He was a Curate in the Parish Church of Willesden, a Team Vicar in the Parish of Old St Pancras, with a particular responsibility for St Mary’s Somers Town, and then for nine years as Rector of St John at Hackney, latterly becoming Area Dean of Hackney.

Since ordination Rob has completed an MA in Theology, Politics and Faith Based organisations from Kings College.

Indeed, whilst Rector of Hackney, the Church of St John at Hackney was reordered so that most aspects of Hackney life could be experienced, from concerts by Coldplay, Gary Barlow and Emilie Sande, jobs fairs, credit unions, to the most used knife amnesty bin in London.

The reordering led to a reordering of its relationship with the local community, which became so needed in the aftermath of the disturbances in 2011.

Aidan Dwan

Aidan qualified as a solicitor and worked as a lawyer in the oil and gas industry. After various operational roles he spent the largest part of his career as UK Human Resources Director in a an international oil company. During a brief career change Aidan qualified and spent three years as a primary school teacher before returning to human resource management.

Aidan has been involved in various homeless projects including as a literacy volunteer and a volunteer migrant host.

He joined the board in October 2018.

Suzanne Davis

Suzanne is an experienced philanthropy fundraiser having spent the early part of her career in International and European Marketing for American Express. During a career break to raise her family, she became involved in local homelessness projects, supporting the work of the Easter Team and Open House in Crawley, West Sussex. When she returned to work, she moved into the charity sector, working with philanthropic individuals and organisations supporting their local hospice. She now works as Head of Philanthropy at an international children’s charity, providing future-oriented education to disadvantaged children in the Global South.

With a qualification from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, Suzanne is keen to use her experience to continue to support the work of the homelessness sector on a national level.

She lives in Sussex with her husband, and twin boys who recently graduated from University.

James Evans

James joined the board of Housing Justice as a finance trustee in 2026. He is a qualified accountant and Finance Director who has held a variety of roles in the charity and not for profit sector and holds a masters degree in Voluntary Sector Management from Bayes Business School. He is the Treasurer of Quaker Social Action and volunteers to support the homeless community in his local area in Essex.

Jane Fowler

Jane is a Chartered Accountant with experience in risk and compliance as well as resolving ethical issues. Jane has also worked in an advisory capacity with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, and the Financial Reporting Council on their Technical Advisory Group.

Jane has recently retired from accountancy to follow her dream of writing a book. She lives in London with her husband, daughter and dog Rosie.

Sarah Howard-Jones

Sarah is a former government lawyer, with experience across central government departments over 18 years, working alongside policy development, spending and operational teams in public policy areas. Until 2019, she was legal advisor for housing policy at the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government, focusing particularly on homelessness reduction, regulation of social housing, and standards in the private rented sector.

She is training for ordained ministry at Ripon College, Cuddesdon while on placement at St James’s Piccadilly, with a view to a curacy post in London from 2021.

Sarah lives in London, owned by two children and a cat.

Zoë Rossi

Zoë is a senior finance professional who has a passion for social justice and anti-discrimination practice.

Zoë joined the homelessness sector in 2022, when she started her role as Director of Finance & Company Secretary at St Basils. Since then, she has immersed herself in the homelessness and social housing sectors, participating in forums and discussions to share learning and help shape future policy.

Prior to her current role, Zoë has held finance positions within various charity and non-profit organisations. She qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant in 2016 and is currently studying for an MBA.

This is Zoë’s first trusteeship and she is delighted to be part of the Housing Justice Board fulfilling her role as a Finance Trustee. Her desire to end homelessness and drive for social justice and community cohesion are what attracted her to Housing Justice.

Outside of work, Zoë plays netball, is a keen runner and loves to travel. She lives in Birmingham with her husband and beloved two cats.

Glynys Sykes

Glynys has nearly 30 years’ experience as a fundraising and communications manager, working in international aid, child development and Bible engagement. She has also worked in publishing, PR and marketing communications.

She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, past Secretary of Fundraisers in Christian Organisations, and a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford.

She is thrilled to have joined the Trustee Board of Housing Justice, and to chair the Fundraising and Comms Sub Committee.

Nanou Thassinda

I am a Lived Experience Consultant at Breaking Barriers and a university student pursuing a postgraduate degree in Public Policy and Management at Birkbeck University of London.

In addition to my studies, I am an active campaigner and advocate for Dignity and Justice for Individuals who face injustice and Hostile Immigration policies with grassroots organizing to end the hostile environment.

In my role at Breaking Barriers, I contribute to strategic decision-making by providing insights shaped by my professional expertise and advocacy experience. I collaborate with all team members to enhance policies,

improve service delivery, and ensure that diverse perspectives are represented at all levels of the organization. My work spans key areas such as fundraising, recruitment, policy review, public engagement, and communications.

As part of a dedicated team of Lived Experience Consultants, I work closely with colleagues to drive meaningful change and support Breaking Barriers in its mission to create more inclusive and effective programs.

Bonnie Williams

Bonnie brings to her role as Chief Executive of Housing Justice a broad and strategically focused background spanning government, local government, policing, and the charity sector. Throughout her career she has held senior positions that required high level judgement, clear strategic leadership, and an ability to influence complex systems. In the Welsh Government she advised ministers on policy development and implementation, contributing to programmes that shaped national approaches to social need. In local government she led coordinated service responses, strengthened multi agency working, and delivered improvements in challenging contexts. As Assistant Police and Crime Commissioner she exercised oversight of a large police force, holding senior policing leaders to account and ensuring that strategic decisions reflected the needs and priorities of communities. Alongside this professional experience, she has volunteered for more than thirty years, demonstrating a long-standing personal commitment to service and civic responsibility. These experiences give her deep insight into how public services function, how decisions are made at the highest levels, and how sustainable change can be achieved. She brings strong strategic judgement, political and organisational awareness, and a clear ability to lead teams and organisations to deliver effective, preventative, person centred services.

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George Butler

Before joining Housing Justice, George spent six years working in homelessness policy and delivery for UK Government in the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government. During this time, he worked across a diverse range of policy areas including Non-UK national rough sleeping policy; health and homelessness policy; and voluntary, faith and community sector responses to homelessness. George now leads our faith and community development work supporting the emergency accommodation and night shelter sector alongside our heading up our relational support and community integration programme – ‘Citadel’.

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Nicola Evans

Nicola is an experienced legislative specialist with a demonstrated history of working in public policy. With a background in non-profit organisations, communication, social housing, facilitation and management, Nicola’s key skills include: skilled communicator with experience of influencing national policy development; experienced at building effective relationships with policymakers and elected officials, ensuring that key messages influence policy and legislation at the highest level; extensive policy knowledge in a wide range of areas relating to housing, including social care, human rights, equalities, housing-related supported and homelessness; detailed knowledge of legislative frameworks governing social policy in Wales; experience of scrutinising complex legislation, of both primary and secondary statute, which is subject to fast-paced development processes and conflicting political agendas; aptitude for amalgamating key points from data and complex policy environments to inform policy positions as well as other areas of work such as campaigning, conferences and training programmes; ability to plan effectively to ensure tight project deadlines, working in pressurised environments; and experience of managing governance change at one of the largest housing associations in Wales.

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Martin Parkes

Martin has extensive leadership experience in the charity sector, working in various roles across different organisations. Martin’s key skills include data analysis – measuring impact, performance reporting, and managing risks; helping charities build practical tools like impact frameworks to track the difference they make, and risk registers to identify and manage potential issues; experience in managing budgets, leading projects, and working with stakeholders; ensuring money is well spent and that everyone involved is engaged and working towards the charity’s goals.

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Poppy Thomas

Poppy joined Housing Justice in 2025 and oversees our Citadel programme and Community Integration work. She has previously worked across the voluntary and public sector: in local government including in voluntary sector partnership co-ordination, commissioning and grant making, particularly with housing support and community services; in funding – supporting small charities to develop and collaborate; and in housing-related social enterprise. She’s passionate about the potential within communities to come together and meet needs using the strengths they hold – and how the public sector can enable this.

Outside of work, Poppy is often found attempting to grow fruit, veg and flowers on her allotment or convincing her greyhound to go for a walk.

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Joanna Whitney

Jo joined Housing Justice in 2022 having previously spent 20 years working in the marketing, communications and fundraising sectors including time running PR and marketing campaigns for a number of high profile sporting clients including the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games Organising Committee and Manchester United Football Club; charities such as Generations for Peace, Books2All and Think Malawi; and multi-national technology companies.

She now runs Housing Justice’s small but perfectly formed Marketing, Communications and Fundraising team who raise money to fund Housing Justice’s work across England and Wales.

In her spare time you can find her pottering in her garden and playing with her cat.

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