Ann’s early career was spent teaching history and sociology. She worked in education, qualification development and training for forty-six years. Brought up in a Methodist/Socialist household she became a Quaker in 1991 at the time of the first Gulf War. Since then, she has served as an Elder; Pastoral Friend, Local Meeting Clerk and Trustee of the Quaker Tapestry. From 1996 to 2004 with her husband she managed the Quaker Peace and Social Witness Vocational Training Project in Lebanon, a peace project. On moving to Lancaster from Herefordshire she became for some time chair of the board of Trustees of Global Link a Development Education Centre in Lancaster which also provides activities to support Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Ann represented Britain Yearly Meeting on the European Ecumenical Round Table on the Legacies of Slavery, Colonialism and Racism.  Currently she Co-Clerks the Britain Yearly Meeting Trustees’ Reparations Working Group and is an Associate Tutor and Elder for Woodbrooke.