Meet The Team
At St Antony's we have a small but dedicated team who assist in delivering and developing the Centre's projects.
The team is headed up by the Centre's founder and Director Kevin Flanagan. With over 30 years experience in community and faith groups and a similar period spent working with Trade Unions Kevin provides leadership and strategic development of services including forging links and partnerships with funding bodies, providers, public and private sector agencies.
Contracts Manager, Paul Callaghan, has over 15 years experience of project and contract development as well as management of a range of communtiy based learning projects. Paul is responsible for the development of new contracted learning provision, negotiation of learning outcomes and targets and supporting the Training Team to deliver services in line with quality standards and contractual requirements.
Rev Martin Saunders joined the team as part-time chaplain in the summer of 2009 - read his welcome here.
Centre Secretary, Patricia Gallagher has been a part of the team since 2001. Working directly with Kevin, Patricia provides administrative support across the range of Centre activities, from producing annual reports for the Centre and GMIM to everyday secretarial duties and everything in between.
Training Manager, Tom Fredrickson has been at St Antony's Centre since 2000. He has developed the training department , gaining accredited status in 2001. Nine years' experience in planning and delivering adult and community learning programmes, maintining a high level of performance against outcomes under contract with LSC, ESF, and other funding providers.
Senior Trainer, Dorothy Kneen has been a teacher since 1964 and was a Deputy Head teacher for five years. She has been Senior Trainer at the Centre since 2001 and is responsible for development of learning resources, delivering learning courses and mapping resources to basic skills.
Adult Literacy & Numeracy Trainer, Melissa Griffiths joined the team in August 2008. Having previously worked as a Skills For Life Co-ordinator in Yorkshire Melissa experience has proved to be a valuable asset to the training team as she develops and delivers skills for life training programmes throughout the Northwest.
Volunteer Support Trainer, Martin Breary works on various projects with the training team and provides invaluable support in the delivery of various training programmes.
Financial Administrator, Elizabeth Flanagan has spent many years at the Centre helping out in all areas. She is now responsible for Payroll as well as the sales and purchase ledgers.
Centre Administrator Peter Callaghan joined the team in October 2008 to provide aditional administrative support to the team and to manage the room hire facility at the Centre
Tim Riley, Margaret Farrell and Stephen Bowe make up the Centre Maintenance Team and between them they help to keep the place looking ship shape.
We are also lucky to be able to call on the support of two Heritage volunteers, Joe Brookes and Helen Lentin who help out with archiving the array of heritage donations to the centre as well as assisting with general admin work and welcoming Centre visitors.