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Who's Who

The Vicar – Fr. Cliff Bowman

Before being ordained Fr. Cliff worked as an Assistant Warden in a night shelter in Leeds. After serving curacies in Sawley (1982-5) and in the Team Ministry in Hucknall (1985-89)  he was for ten years the Rector of Warsop with Sookholme, a large training parish in the Nottinghamshire coalfields. He then spent six years as the full time Chaplain amongst Deaf people for the Diocese of Southwell before becoming the Vicar of St Andrew’s in 2006.

 A graduate of Durham University he went on to study at Nottingham and at Nottingham Trent Universities. He attended Theological College in Cambridge and was ordained in 1982.
 
Fr. Cliff is married to Dot, a nurse practitioner and they have two grown up daughters, Frances and Rebecca.
 
 

  Church Warden -   Sue Leatherby

Sue is a woman of many talents. She grew up in Harefield. She spent the early part of her working life as a secretary in a variety places including Trimite, where she met her husband, Jim. Later she worked at the Greenwood veterinary clinic where as well as doing the admin she also learned to castrate cats!

Since 1994 Sue has worked as a residential social worker at Charles Curran House, a home for adults with profound mental and physical learning difficulties.


 

 Church Warden -   Rod Cottrell

Rod, originally from Iver, is married to Katherine, and has a young daughter, Eleanor.  They were welcomed into the family of  St Andrew’s when they moved to Uxbridge in 2004, with Rod becoming a member of the Middlesex Association of Bell Ringers, ringing regularly in the parish.

Rod is a qualified Chef, now working as the Facilities Manager at a local independent School.

 

 

 

Pastoral Assistant - Rosie Halford 

Since leaving school Rosie has worked in the accounts department of a number of Solicitor’s practices. She is now based in Uxbridge where she works as the accounts supervisor of a recently combined practice. Rosie is one of the key lay ministers at St Andrew’s. She has been a Churchwarden and is a Pastoral Assistant and also leader of the Welcome team and co-ordinator of the Pastoral Care team. Rosie is the person who you ask when you need to know someone or something…. She is also amazingly humble and has a good sense of humour, which is a real blessing in someone so efficient!