03. The Team
(B.Sc. (Hons.), FCCA) Mr Sohal has over 15 years of experience of financial and administration matters with hands-on experience of building up operations. He has extensive knowledge of company finance and administration. His career spans many large organisations, which include Pearl, Prudential, Foreign & Colonial and Skandia. Currently employed as Financial Controller and Compliance Officer of an organisation with responsibility over investment assets of over £500 million.
Daniel Burton grew up in Lancashire and after reading theology at Oxford worked in Ramallah in the 1980s where he had a rapid political and multi faith education. Since returning to the UK he has been actively involved in the charity BIBLELANDS in which capacity he has led numerous pilgrimages to the Middle East including the Holy Land, Lebanon, Egypt and Armenia. He trained for the Anglican ministry at Llandaff and worked for the Church in Wales for ten years. Currently parish priest in Cheetham Hill, North Manchester, he in actively involved in interfaith work in that city.
Mr Guha has a varied back ground in Business. He trained in Unilever London in their Soft Foods Division for a number of years before going on to do a full time MBA degree specializing in Corporate Strategy. He was Head of Marketing for Grattan from where he was invited to join Rank Travel and Leisure as Marketing Director, reporting directly to the Chairman of the Board. He was with the Littlewoods Organisation for over 12 years and retired as Deputy Chief Executive of the whole Group and Deputy Chairman of the Retail Stores Division.
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Educated at Uppingham. Served with the Royal Leicesters in Cyprus. President of the Union at King’s College, London. Ordained priest in the Anglican communion. Vicar of Askrigg, Bramley, Eskdale. Founder of Low Mill Residential Centre, Cats Mill for the Unemployed, Cumbria Farming and Rural Business Association and Eskdale Open. First Chairman of URI UK. Malcolm Stonestreet is committed to the community in which he lives. He networks and works in partnership and facilitates groups so as to provide structures and money to change and enrich the lives of those in that community. He retired from active ministry as a Vicar in November 2003 and took up the roll of Chief Executive of URI in January 2004.
BA (Hons) English. Anne began her career in the private sector before taking up a post at the Headquarters of Business in the Community (BITC) in London where she was involved with the Economic Development and Companies Divisions. As Founder and Director of Partners in the Countryside, Anne worked with His Grace the Duke of Westminster and partners from across all sectors to champion community-led rural regeneration. She secured service level agreements (SLA’s) from English Partnerships and the Countryside Agency to develop and deliver the Working with Rural Communities initiative and published A Guide to Rural Partnership which was launched by MPs at the House of Commons. Anne worked with the Charity Commission to secure rural and urban regeneration as Charitable Objects and has recently reconstituted United Religions Initiative UK as an Incorporated Charity with community cohesion, equality and diversity at the heart of an expanded range of charitable objects. Anne is a Director of 360 Communications Ltd and, among other interests, is Chair of a local Justice and Peace Group.
Ajit Singh has devoted over thirty five years of his life in promoting inter-faith understanding, inter-racial harmony and community cohesion at local, national and international levels.
He has been a co-founder and Chair of the Kingston Group for racial understanding, a member of the Westminster Interfaith Programme and has had links with the WCRP and WCF.
He has been with the URI UK since its coming into being, firstly as the Vice Chair and then as the Honorary Deputy Chief Executive. He also Chairs the Ethnic Minorities Consultative Group of the London Borough of Hounslow as well as the Hounslow Friends of Faith.
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