Investing in generations inspired by Jesus

Ant Cartwright

Chaplain to Chantry Academy / Director of Pastoral Care

Alongside his chaplaincy role, Ant's role as director of pastoral care sees him looking after our team’s spiritual wellbeing and flourishing. His faith flows from a desire to express the Father heart of God, to shepherd and encourage others to reflect on what makes their soul soar! Ant worships at HOPE Church in Ipswich. He loves to wander and wonder, losing himself in time and space or ancient Tuscan towns. You can find him in cafes listening to Doctor Who audio dramas, Electro-Swing Jazz and spinning around with Kylie!

Beth Ambrose

Chaplain to Ipswich Academy / Community Youth Worker, Nacton & Gainsborough

Beth started working with CYM as a Chaplain in 2016, and has been based in Ipswich Academy since 2019. Beth works in the school three days per week and as a community youth worker two days per week in the surrounding area of Nacton as part of a project in conjunction with the Salvation Army. Beth engages the community through detached outreach work and a weekly drop-in for young people. Beth attends Fields Church in Kesgrave with her husband Josh. Beth is passionate about wildlife and animals, enjoys being in her garden and going to the zoo! She is also incredibly competitive and loves a good board game.

Henry Matter

Director of Operations

Henry joined CYM in 2021 as Director of Operations and is loving his role. Having moved from the private construction sector he is loving combining his passion and talents for operational work with his strong faith. He loves working with the team to facilitate their day to day needs and working on larger projects. When not at work you will find Henry with his wife Julia and their cat Goose or visiting national trust properties. Henry and Julia are active members of Burlington Baptist Church in Ipswich and Henry is chair of Suffolk Christian Camps.

Jo Holmes

Chaplain to Suffolk ONE Sixth Form Centre

Jo’s role is to be a spiritual presence within the college for all faiths and none. To provide a safe space for staff and students to talk, rejoice, comfort, and encourage. Jo worships at All Saints Church Ipswich with her husband Matt, they have three boys and like spending time together as a family. Jo loves spending time with people and enjoys country and beach walks.

Josh Ambrose

Director of Campsite Programme

Josh enjoys nothing more than dreaming and being creative. He has been very fortunate in having opportunities to travel and visit different parts of the world, which has hugely contributed to Josh’s laid back, positive character. Josh married Beth in 2020 during the pandemic and they regularly attend Fields Church in Kesgrave. Since owning a house together, both Beth and Josh have discovered the joys of gardening and finishing the week with a bit of Gardeners World. Josh joined CYM in 2016, first contributing to the much loved African Adventure school programme before coordinating CYM’s various programmes from Vauxhall site.

Kori Dorrington

Chaplain to St. Matthew's Primary School

Kori joined CYM in 2021 and works as our chaplain at St. Matthew’s CofE Primary School as well as being a class teacher there. She is married to Jono and they live with their cheeky Border Collie, Jackson. Kori and Jono are part of the Bridge Ipswich church family. Kori also enjoys a good book, cooking and perusing a good charity shop. Adventures with family are a favourite pastime, with good food and a lovely drop of rain.

Lucy Anstey

Director of Chaplaincy

Lucy has been a part of the CYM team since 2013, working for African Adventure for several years initially, and now leading and supporting our wonderful team of school chaplains. Lucy has loved working to develop our culture and team over her time at CYM. She is passionate about education and particularly the person centred, holistic approach that school chaplaincy takes. Lucy is married two Joshua, they have two young children and are a part of Proclaimers Church. She sings in church and her local choir and loves to get out walking and exploring beautiful Suffolk with her family.

Simon Scott

CEO

Simon joined CYM in 2013 and is based at our office. He worships at The Salvation Army in Felixstowe. Married to Annette, they have two teenage children and all love going to football together as season ticket holders at the mighty ITFC! Simon loves music, the outdoors, running and walking, and will have a go at pretty much any sport. He tries his hardest to keep his competitive spirit in a healthy place! Simon oversees the vision, mission, and values of the charity, providing strategic direction and care for our team, holding us accountable to our Trustees.

Tom Stokes

Chaplain to Abbeygate Sixth Form & West Suffolk College

Tom has volunteered with CYM over many years, particularly with African Adventure and Base Camp, prior to joining our Chaplaincy team. He attends the Salvation Army in Stowmarket, where he is the church youth leader. He really enjoys watching and playing football and is a big Ipswich Town fan. He is also an avid follower of Formula 1 and hopes to attend a live race in the future. Tom loves supporting young people when they need it the most, helping them to feel comfortable and safe in themselves.

Ursula French

Finance & Admin Assistant

Ursula has worked for CYM for nearly 4 years. Firstly, looking at finance but more recently working with the team with admin for the campsite programme. Ursula attends Fields church with her husband Adrian. She has 2 grown up children, who are both married and they consider that they now have 4 children. Adding to that they have 4 wonderful grandchildren who, they are happy to say, take up a lot of their time. Ursula loves swimming and goes to a local pool regularly. She has a passion for paper crafts, reading, baking, entertaining, but her greatest joy is her family.

Chris Ginn

Chris has seen first-hand the way CYM has helped young people thrive and is excited by the vision of CYM and felt called to volunteer to serve as a trustee. Married to Maggie for almost 40 years, they lost their eldest son Mike to Leukaemia aged 29 but have a daughter in law and granddaughter living near Ipswich.Their younger son James and his wife and three children and live in Coventry. Chris had the privilege of taking early retirement from his career as a forensic accountant. Maggie and Chris are part of Bridge Church in Ipswich. They enjoy cruising, board games and sport! They play golf, football and walking football! Maggie and Chris met through the youth group at West Road Church in Bury St Edmunds. Nigel Taylor was their leader. Chris has been involved with CYM for many years dating back to being on the Livewires organising committee, regularly taking a group of non-church youngsters from Chantry to Roadshow and cooking for African adventure with Maggie . Mike spent a year with CYM prior to teaching and James worked at African adventure for a summer.

Graham Abbott

Chair of Trustees

Graham is a solo Dad to a 6 year old lad which makes life such an awesome adventure. He started life as an electrician, retrained as a Social Worker, worked in both Substance Misuse and Mental Health Services and now works in the local Public Health team. He has been part of the Colchester Road Baptist family since he was about 3. He remembers a significant book ‘You can make a difference’ by Tony Compolo, it gave him a calling and passion to serve God in his generation. Serving has seasons and having spent much of his life involved with youth work and music ge is currently focussed on his role in the CRBC leadership team. His passion for being involved with CYM started with being a young person when CYM started, going to Highlife, Crucial Moves, Sizewell's, Celebrations, Roadshows and many more . . . . from being a young person, like many before and after, he was soon involved in helping, supporting and organising and leading events. Graham joined as a Trustee in 2013 and it has been an exciting journey seeking God on where He is calling CYM to boldly go. The world around us is ever changing and for CYM following God’s calling has meant journeying from traditional schools work to chaplaincy, transitioning from 'African Adventure' at Sizewell and our base at Great Coleman Street to a move to Vauxhall Farm. Graham is excited and thrilled by the move to Vauxhall Farm, alongside our chaplaincy presence and our local church network. A potential to see God move, lives changed, and individual young people and children reach their full potential, which ultimately is in Jesus.

Mandy Stone

Married to Rod for almost 40 years, they have 4 children living in Ipswich, Brighton, Oxford and Guatemala. Mandy has the joy of working part - time for Triangle Living Water Community Shop. She loves to spend time with her family, to worship with and to serve her church family in Ipswich (Ipswich International Church). Rod and Mandy enjoy travelling, walking, Indian food, going to the theatre together and watching crime dramas on TV. Mandy read all kinds of fiction whenever she has time. Another of her loves is CYM. She believes 100 percent in the vision of reaching young people in an authentic, Christlike way. It's her privilege to serve as a Trustee and to do what she can to serve in practical ways.

Matt Levett

Matt is an avid admirer of all things comic book - especially Wonder Woman. He loves films; loves good food; loves surfing (but is really quite bad at it!) and loves open water swimming – the colder the better. He plays Risk – a lot, and he has a mysterious interest in cryptozoology (google it!) He also attends the Eurovision Song contest in country every year! Matt has been a youth worker all his life and currently works for the Anglican Church in Suffolk helping them to grow by growing younger. In his spare time, he helps run a charity for street kids in Latin America and gets out there whenever he can and serves as a trustee for several local charities connected with young people, including CYM. Oh yeah…and the most important bit - he has been involved in Church ministry all his life. He really believes that the local Church really is the hope for the world. He loves teaching theology to the ‘non-religious. He’s really passionate about young people and mission and thinks that living for Jesus is not just a good thing but the best thing. No, really he does …”

Tristan Clee

Tristan is trying hard to be Christlike with a passion for Youth work. Living in Northamptonshire with his family he attends The Salvation Army for worship, and during the rest of the week he is a mobile church in his community, workplace and at the school he mentors in as a volunteer. He has worked for FedEx for more than 21 years working out of their European HQ in The Netherlands. A qualified rugby referee for over 28 years, he has had the opportunity to officiate in England, Scotland, Germany, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Belgium & USA. He is passionate about most sports keeping half an eye on Coventry City FC, Coventry Blaze and Northampton Saints. He is husband to Jo and father to his 'financial drains' Zara and Ewan. As a trustee he wants to be an encourager, prayer warrior, and a supporter of the vision of CYM.