Governance
The Religion Media Centre is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, registered with the Charity Commission in October 2016. Funded by generous donations from trusts and individuals, we are always keen to hear from potential funders and volunteers to help with our work.
The Religion Media Centre is an independent organisation, unaffiliated to any faith group, with the simple aim of helping the media report and reflect religion in society. There is no editorial line, nor do we promote any one religion, or religious belief in general. Instead, we seek to explain beliefs and practices, enabling the media and the wider public to be better informed.
We do this by providing a daily bulletin of religion news, a weekly round-up newsletter, weekly online media briefings in which speakers explore a story in the headlines, alongside an annual lecture and festival. We have a team of freelance journalists covering all major world religions and we enlist academics to offer their wisdom.
We are set up as a Charitable Incorporated Organization, charity number 1169562, registered on 10th October 2016. Our charitable objectives are to advance education of the public in world religions by providing accurate, authoritative, independent and impartial information and research about religion to the media; and the provision of media training to religious organisations.
Trustees
Michael Wakelin
Executive Producer at TBI Media, founding partner of the Religious Literacy Partnership and former Head of Religion & Ethics at the BBC
Dr Opinderjit Kaur Takhar MBE
Associate Professor of Sikh Studies, and Director of the Centre for Sikh and Panjabi Studies, University of Wolverhampton. In 2022, she was elected president of TRS-UK
Rev Dr Christopher Landau
Postgraduate pastor, St Aldates, Oxford and former BBC World Service religious affairs correspondent
Dr Lois Lee
Senior Lecturer Department of Religious Studies, University of Kent; Sociologist specialising in nonreligious worldviews
Kevin Jaquiss
Lawyer specialising in new ways of delivering public services with community involvement; trustee of the Tauheedul Education Trust
Dr Hassan Abdein
Senior Advisor for Public Policy at Unitas Communications; has also worked on conflict resolution and human rights advocacy for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the United Nations (UN)
Ben Rich
Leading public relations professional for faith and community groups and Chair of the York Liberal Jewish Community
Roger Bolton
Journalist and broadcaster
Consultants
Advisers
Name | Description |
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Dr Azim Ahmed | Deputy Director at the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK |
Remona Aly | Director of Communications of Exploring Islam Foundation |
Dr Kate Christopher | Director of Teach:RE at Culham St Gabriel |
Andrew Copson | CEO of Humanists UK |
Prof Adam Dinham | Professor of Faith & Public Policy and Director of the Faiths & Civil Society Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London |
Caroline Donne | Freelance radio producer |
Rabbi Alex Goldberg | Barrister and rabbi, Dean of the College of Chaplains, University of Surrey |
Katie Harrison | Social & Public Affairs Adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury |
Dr Sarah Harvey | Senior Research Officer, Inform |
Dr Tim Hutchings | Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics, University of Nottingham |
James Irving | St Bride’s Fleet Street Head of Finance and Fundraising |
Andrew Jennings | Accountant and finance adviser |
Rev Tony Miles | Superintendent Minister, Methodist Central Hall, Westminster |
Prof Jolyon Mitchell | Principal of St John’s College, Durham
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Dr Suzanne Newcombe | Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, The Open University. Director of Inform |
Canon Ed Newell | Principal and Chief Executive of Cumberland Lodge |
Prof Stephen Pattison | Formerly Professor of Religion, Ethics and Practice, University of Birmingham
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Rev George Pitcher | Journalist, author and an Anglican priest |
Eleanor Puttock | Digital chaplain, Methodist Homes for the Aged
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Rabbi Jonathan Romain | Rabbi at Maidenhead Synagogue |
Jazvir Singh | Barrister, Chair of City Sikhs, Honorary Fellow, Edward Cadbury Centre |
Dr Jasjit Singh | Associate Professor, University of Leeds |
Nick Spencer | Senior Fellow, Theos Think Tank |
Judy Trotter | Head of Adult Education & Learning, JW3 Centre |
Karl Wightman | UK Baha’i Office of Public Affairs |
Annual Reports
The trustees are pleased to present the annual report of the Religion Media Centre from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024.
The trustees are pleased to present the annual report of the Religion Media Centre from 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023.
The trustees are pleased to present the annual report of the Religion Media Centre from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022.
The trustees are pleased to present the annual report of the Religion Media Centre from 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020.
The trustees are pleased to present the second annual report of the Religion Media Centre from 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2019.
The trustees are pleased to present the first annual report of the Religion Media Centre from the date of receiving charitable status 10th October 2016 to the end of the financial year 31st March 2018.
Affiliations & Partnerships
