Staff and others at Trinity Churches
Staff Team
Phil Cansdale is vicar of Trinity Churches, a role which includes leading the staff team and overseeing different congregations across Trinity Churches. Originally from Bristol and coming via Pakistan, Oxford, Canterbury and Wolverhampton, he has been in Shrewsbury since 2009. Married to Tracey – who works locally as a primary school head teacher – he has three children who seem far too grown up. Phil has many aspirations in life. Ideally he’d love to play the piano like Jools Holland, cook like Jamie Oliver, and explore the world like Bear Grylls. Given the extreme likelihood of failing in all three, he will settle for being a loving husband, a great dad, and a fruitful church leader.
Fi Iddon
Associate Vicar
Fi Iddon is the Associate Vicar at Trinity Churches, alongside a role as Chaplain to University Centre Shrewsbury. She lives in Meole Brace with her husband Simon, who works at Meole Brace Secondary School, and they have two children – Rebekah and Josiah. The family love being part of the local community. Fi delights to see people of all ages discovering more about the ways in which Jesus has called them to live for him in their every day lives. When she isn’t working, Fi loves family time, being in the Shropshire hills or drinking tea with friends.
Valerie Pitt
Associate Minister
Valerie Pitt is an Associate Minister at Trinity Churches. She has a particular role in overseeing the 9am congregation at Holy Trinity but also leads worship across the parish. Valerie champions the cause of the elderly in the parish and keeps an eye on our thriving monthly Trinity Table lunch. Valerie is married to John and they have five children and an increasing number of grandchildren. Valerie also enjoys singing, gardening, walking and spending time with their family.
Charles Ruxton
Associate Minister
Charles Ruxton is an Associate Minister at Trinity Churches. Sometimes seen as old and wise, he is actually rather childish, though you have to get to know him to see that (ask his wife, Sylvia). He is known to spend time wondering how it might be possible to pray, as well as actually praying. He earns his living by running a successful small business doing pollution testing and cleanup and spends spare time with family, whistling folk tunes, hill-walking and going sailing when he can. Sylvia and Charles have a small retreat house attached to their home.
Cerys Hughes
Children and Families Minister
Cerys Hughes is the Children and Families Minister at Trinity Churches
Originally from North Wales, Cerys now lives in Telford with her three teenage children, a dog and a tortoise! Cerys enjoys exploring new and creative ways to be church together and is passionate about making church accessible and engaging for people of all ages. In her spare time Cerys enjoys road trips (particularly to the sea!), charity shops, good quality tea and cake and spending time with family and friends.
Judith Clarkson
Lay Chaplain at Meole Brace Primary
Judith Clarkson is the Lay Chaplain at Meole Brace Primary and has lived in Shrewsbury and been a member of Trinity Churches with, husband Steve, for over 20 years. She has 3 grown up children who have all flown the nest and spread far and wide. She held the role of Children’s Worker for the last twelve years and now is enjoying retirement, while volunteering as our Chaplain to Meole Brace Primary. Walking in our beautiful countryside or playing music are the ways she spends her spare time when not visiting family and friends and she can often be found in bandstands during the summer months either playing the clarinet or wielding the baton trying to keep order.
Keith Moore
Pioneer Community Minister
Keith Moore is the Pioneer Community Minister. Originally hailing from the Isle of Man, he settled in Shrewsbury nearly 3 years ago after working with Youth With A Mission for 10 years. He has a passion for talking to people about Jesus, teaching the Bible and discussing the big questions of life. He enjoys watching superhero movies, reading detective stories, and is hoping to write a book. He is even hopeful that when its finished someone might read it!
Amal Moore
Pioneer Community Minister
Amal Moore is the Pioneer Community Minister. She comes from the land of the Pharaohs, the Great Pyramid, and home of the longest river in the world. She has a heart for discipleship and reaching out to people from different backgrounds, groups, and cultures within the community. She enjoys hospitality and entertaining, and is a big fan of Liverpool FC and loves her cat, Cookie Dough.
Kevin Pilsbury
Operations Manager
Kevin is our Operations Manager who works Monday through to Friday, and is responsible for the smooth running of the ‘engine’ of the Trinity Churches ‘ship’ in close collaboration with and under the guidance of the Vicar, the Church Wardens, the Honorary Treasurer and of course the PCC. This includes financial, personnel, property, contractual, insurance and policy issues plus a wide variety of other things that form the life of the ‘engine-room’ of this vibrant and busy Church. He works closely with the Church Office and Trinity Centre teams run by the Parish Administrator, the Finance Officer, and the Events Manager, without all of whose outstanding contributions this ‘ship’ could easily veer off course!
Jenny Jones
Finance Officer
Jenny Jones is our Finance Officer who works 10 hours a week, Mondays and Wednesdays. She has worked in Finance for many years, previously with Shropshire Council and Shropshire Youth Association. She is a local “girl” having lived in Shrewsbury most of her life, and attended the Priory School. She is married to Brian and they have a grown up daughter named Claire. She enjoys walking in the Shropshire Countryside, spending time with family & friends, and helping others.
Shannon Commins
Administrator and Events Coordinator
Shannon Commins is Administrator and Events Coordinator as well as our DBS Verifier and Safeguarding Admin. She has lived in Shrewsbury and been a member of Holy Trinity since her birth in 1995 with her mother Helen (Events Manager). She has played a number of roles within the church including leading children’s groups, participating in worship leading, working as a casual Welcome Assistant and volunteering within the church office. Shannon has recently moved out of the parish with her husband Martin and daughter Willow but continues to view Holy Trinity as her home. She enjoys family time, playing games and riding horses.
Helen Hinton
Events Manager
Helen Hinton is Events Manager at Trinity Churches. Helen grew up in Lincolnshire and moved around the Midlands before meeting and marrying husband Mike (Maintenance Supervisor) and settling in Shrewsbury in 1988. She is a Mum and a Gran and has been a member of Holy Trinity since 1994. Helen began working at the Trinity Centre as a volunteer Welcome Assistant when it opened in 2008 and has grown into her current role of Events Manager. She enjoys woolcraft, music and spending time with her ever-growing family and her three cats.
Shannon Commins
Administrator and Events Coordinator
Shannon Commins is Administrator and Events Coordinator as well as our DBS Verifier and Safeguarding Admin. She has lived in Shrewsbury and been a member of Holy Trinity since her birth in 1995 with her mother Helen (Events Manager). She has played a number of roles within the church including leading children’s groups, participating in worship leading, working as a casual Welcome Assistant and volunteering within the church office. Shannon has recently moved out of the parish with her husband Martin and daughter Willow but continues to view Holy Trinity as her home. She enjoys family time, playing games and riding horses.
Jenny Surl
Warden
;Jenny Surl is District Warden for Holy Trinity. Originally from Sussex, and a retired teacher, Jenny and her husband Rob have lived in Shrewsbury for the past 35 years. They have two grown up children and three grandchildren, who keep them on their toes! She loves being part of the worshipping and serving community of the church and in her spare time likes nothing better than a trip to the theatre, cooking for family and friends, or a walk in the Shropshire countryside.
Anne Hasnip
Warden
;Anne Hasnip is a Parish Warden at Holy Trinity. Born in Yorkshire Anne came to Shrewsbury in 1991 to work as a teacher at Condover Hall School. She loves serving and being part of the church family and now retired she fills her time playing tennis, line dancing , meeting up with friends and family and working as a volunteer for the League of Friends .
Erica Staples
Warden
;Rachel Woods
Safeguarding Officer
;safeguarding@trinitychurches.org
01743 362399
Andrew Prichard
Safeguarding Officer
;safeguarding@trinitychurches.org
01743 362399
Shannon Commins
Safeguarding Admin
;Shannon Commins is Safeguarding Admin as well as our Communications Assistant. She has lived in Shrewsbury and been a member of Holy Trinity since her birth in 1995 with her mother Helen (Events Manager). She has played a number of roles within the church including leading children’s groups, participating in worship leading, working as a casual Welcome Assistant and volunteering within the church office. Shannon has recently moved out of the parish with her husband Martin and daughter Willow but continues to view Holy Trinity as her home. She enjoys family time, playing games and riding horses.