Who are we?

We are an inclusive group of committed Christians from across Britain with a London-based office. We welcome people of faith, and none. Operation Noah was founded in 2001 by Christian Ecology Link (CEL) and later became a joint project of of CEL and the Environmental Issues Network of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. It was the first Christian campaign to focus exclusively on the issue of Climate Change and this continues to be its mission. The campaign was launched at the end of 2004 in response to mounting concern over the risk of catastrophic climate change.

At the end of 2006, Ann Pettifor, of Advocacy International Ltd (www.advocacyinternational.co.uk) one of the architects of the widely-praised Jubilee 2000 'drop the debt' campaign, became part-time campaign director.

Operation Noah's secretariat is located near Old Street in London at:

If you would like to contact us via e-mail, please use the e-mail form in the Contact Us section.

Operation Noah's Executive Committee, which oversees the campaigns policy and strategy, is currently made up of fourteen members, with representation from Christian Ecology Link and member organisations of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.

Current ONEC members include:

• Paul Bodenham - Paul was one of the founders of Operation Noah is currently chair of Christian Ecology Link. His professional interests are in local and regional policy, and he lives in Nottinghamshire.

• Chris Brice - Chris is a priest in the Church of England and for the last 14 years has worked as Adviser for Social Justice in the Diocese of London. Prior to that he was vicar of a parish in Hackney and produced one of the first environmental audits for churches in 1999.
• Isabel Carter - Isabel worked for over 20 years with Tearfund coordinating their international publications. She is now focussing on climate change issues and has produced a web-based directory, AmberLinks.org, to help connect people to information on responding positively to climate change.

• Ruth Conway - Ruth wrote Choices at the Heart of Technology - A Christian Perspective (Trinity Press 1999) after co-founding the network Values in Design & Technology Education. She is a member of the UNESCO-UK Working Group on Education for Sustainable Development, leads the Education Group of the ECEN and represents it on CTBI's Environmental Issues Network. She manages a once derelict churchyard as a wildlife space, earning the church an Eco-congregation Award.
• Malcolm Crocker, Treasurer - Malcolm qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He believes that Christians have a key role to search for the truth regarding climate change. He gathers data and opinions at U3A Climate Study. 
• Mary Gandy - Mary represents Churches Together in Britain and Ireland on the ON board.
• Steve Hucklesby - Steve joined the Methodist Church in 2003 as Secretary for International Affairs and coordinates the Methodist Church policy in the area of environment and climate change. Prior to this he worked in the field of international development with particular experience in conflict and post-conflict settings.
• Ruth Jarman - Ruth read chemistry at Oxford before her career in the semiconductor industry. She is a trustee of Christian Ecology Link and lives in Hampshire with her husband and three children. She attends the local evangelical C of E church.
• Michael Northcott - Michael is professor of ethics in the University of Edinburgh and a Scottish Episcopal priest. He is also Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral and a trustee of Traidcraft. He has published extensively on ecological theology and ethics including his books The Environment and Christian Ethics and A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming.
• Reggie Norton, Deputy Chair - Reggie spent many years working for Oxfam in Latin America and also spent time as the chair of Anti-Slavery International. He now lives in Faringdon, Oxfordshire and devotes much of his time to climate change action.
• David Pickering, Chair - David is the minister at St Andrew's Roundhay United Reformed Church in Leeds and has been the Operation Noah board chair since 2005. In the 1990s he was the URC's environmental advisor and from 1999-2004 developed and managed Eco-congregation.
• Sr Louisa Poole - Sister Louisa, a member of the Sisters of St. Louis, represents the Catholic Bishops' Conference on the Environmental Issues Network of the CTBI, ECEN (European Christian Environment Network), the Environment Committee of the National JPIC Network (Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation) and is Convenor of the Environment Committee of the National Board of Catholic Women.
• Terry Thake - Terry is a priest in the Church of England living in Lichfield. He is retired but still works in the local hospital and prison. In the latter he is running a series of "Saving the Planet" workshops.
• Heather Whicker - Heather has a background in economics and is a policy advisor for Ecotowns (communities and local government). She is the treasurer of her church and is a mother of three trying to get her whole family to live a greener life.