Ann’s background is in education and development.   In 1991 she started attending Finchley Preparative Meeting in London during the time of the first Gulf War and has been in membership since 1995.

From 1996 – 2004, with her husband, she managed the QPSW Vocational Training Project in Lebanon using training in pedagogical skills to bring together NGO vocational staff from over 100 organisations representing the different confessional groups which had fought each other during the 17year civil war.

Ann has served as an Overseer, Elder and is currently the Clerk of Lancaster Quaker Meeting and Convenor of the Quaker Living Wage Campaign.