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Management & Resourcing
The Unlock National Office is run on a mimimum budget by a small part time staff team. It is only staffed on Mondays and Thursdays. An answerphone is available at other times, or you can e-mail

Dawn Lonsdale
Chief Officer
Dawn Lonsdale, previously Laity Development Adviser for Derby Diocese, has been 'Chief Officer' at Unlock since July 2004. Her role is the strategic management of Unlock, including the development of Unlock Local Partnerships and Discipleship Development Worker posts, and promotion of Unlock's mission and method. She lives and worships in Heanor, in the former coalfield and textile industry part of Derbyshire.

Nguemo Takon (Ella)

Senior Administrator

Nguemo Emmanuella Takon (known in the office as 'Ella') joined the Unlock Office Team in September 2023. She takes care of general administration and supports the work of the local partnership workers, the National Council, the Chief Officer and the walk planning team. Nguemo lives and worships in Worksop.

Kevin Quinton
IT and Finance Manager
Kevin manages Unlock's IT and Finance and started work for Unlock in April 2015. He is Treasurer at a church in Sheffield and at a homeless charity in Rotherham. He is Chair of Trustees for the Yorkshire Baptist Association and for ASSIST Sheffield (a charity supporting those people who have been unsuccessful in their applications for asylum and as a result have been made destitute).

Vacancies

Governance
Unlock is Governed by a voluntary National Council which meets three times each year.

Unlock National Council >> This link goes to a restricted section for Council Business.

Unlock Local Discipleship Development Workers

Unlock local projects - poster

You will find more information on Unlock Local Partnership Projects in our 'Unlock Updates' - to the right, and in the Local Partnerships section of this website.

At present we are actively seeking new places to deliver local partnerships. Do please concat us if you want to know more. Please note that we advise that people contact the Unlock National Office before beginning the process of putting together a bid for an Unlock Local Partnership Project for their location, in order to establish (a) if one already exists, or is planned, and (b) if there is funding available for any more workers at that time.

Unlock London Walk Planning Team (Voluntary)

Tim & Sarah Watkins-Idle
Geoff Coggins
Ian Smith and Alison Gelder
Richard Smart

Do you have what we are looking for?- Recruitment

A small team of volunteers plans the Unlock London Walk each year; they recruit the local churches, create the map and photos and collate all of the travel and tourist information that goes with it, as well as staffing the event on the day of the walk.

They need some new people to join them to help to make the next Unlock London Walks some of the best yet.

If you live within easy reach of London, care about supporting Unlock’s work and have an interest in urban walking - better still if you are already an Unlock Walker and want to help to create the magic that is the Unlock London walk for the future, please contact the Unlock National Office.

Unlock on the World Stage!

Unlock was invited to facilitate a workshop at the World Wide Scripture Engagement Consultation in Melaka, Malaysia. Thanks to the Slavanka Trust, who generously provided all the necessary finance, two Unlock staff led an Unlock workshop at this international mission consultation.

Re-imagining Bible Engagement for Post-Christian Cultures (...)

Published Articles

Inspire article 2009 >>

There is an entry refering to Unlock's working context, approach and experience in the 3 Volume Encyclopedia of Christian Education published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2015.

rowman.com/ISBN/9780810884922 (...)

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Unlock registered charity no. 313454

Unlock National Office
15 Station Road
Rotherham
S60 1HN
Telephone - 01709 380 318

Office is only staffed on Mondays and Thursdays. Answerphone available at other times.

Email:
office@unlock-urban.org.uk

Unlock, formerly the Evangelical Urban Training Project (Eutp) is a charity established to equip Christians in inner city and outer housing estate areas to be more effective as they share the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their own areas.

Unlock employs between four and seven part time paid staff, and has a network of active Unlock partership projects across the UK. The charity is overseen by its National Council that meets three times each year.

The Unlock National Council are Unlock's Governing Body and meet 3 times each year. Council members may follow the link below for restricted information for Council members