The Board of ACC
Rev. Tony Ruddle is Chair of ACC. As a Baptist minister Tony has worked in Dallas, Texas; Chelmsford; London and Grantham. His current job is Deputy Head of Chaplaincy for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust based at St James's ("Jimmy's"). Tony's involvement in counselling is through his job and involvement in Pathways Counselling Services, Leeds. He has an Honours degree (London) and a Masters in Applied Theology (Wales) and holds a Graduate Diploma in counselling with York St John University. Tony is married to Maureen who is also an ACC Accredited Counsellor. They have two grown up children and are grandparents. Email Tony Ruddle.
Sue Monckton Rickett is the Board member for Business and Finance and also the Company Secretary. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and works for an international Bank in the City of London. As a counsellor Sue has worked within church settings and private practice and is a pastoral team leader and speaker at Spring Harvest.
Sue is a trustee and treasurer for Claybury International, a Christian charity, which provides support, training and counselling for church leaders, missionaries and full-time Christian workers. She is also a member of the Bridge Pastoral Foundation and licensed to practice sandplay by the British and Irish Sandplay Society. With her husband, Sue leads an organisation called WINGS (Wholeness in God's Son), which is involved in counselling, pastoral care, retreats and healing. Email Sue Monckton Rickett
David Depledge has rejoined the Board following his retirement from the role of Chief Executive of ACC. He was previously a Board member in the formative days of ACC in the early 90s. His particular oversight responsibility is Communications. David, who is a Fellow of ACC, counsels as a volunteer at the Light House in Coventry. He is a former President of ACC Europe, a director of the International Network for Christian Counselling and a non-executive director of Coventry Primary Care Trust. He was a founder and is still Chairman of CITEE, a charity which provides life skills training for those recovering from mental health problems, spells in prison, long term unemployment etc. David is married to Barbra who is also an ACC accredited counsellor. Email David Depledge
Gwen Spall trained as an integrative Christian counsellor, with a strong person centred foundation. She is an accredited counsellor with ACC and specialises in working with adolescents. She set up the counselling service at one of Norfolk’s largest high schools and has been working in this role for 5 years. She has always had a keen interest in teenage emotional health, previously running a project in Norwich on the dangers of child sexual exploitative relationships.
Gwen divides her time between her counselling role in school and her work as Norfolk County Council’s Restorative 
Approaches Coordinator where she is beginning to train adults on managing relational conflict through repairing harm and rebuilding relationships. She is a registered trainer with The Restorative Justice Council.
Gwen is married with 2 grown up sons. She also recently co-authored Counselling and Psychotherapy in Organisational Settings, edited by the counselling service at the University of East Anglia, where she reflects on her work as a school counsellor.
Bill Merrington Canon Dr Bill Merrington has been an Anglican Priest for 26 years. Formally a Forensic Chemist, he has worked in city (St.John's, Harborne), town (St.Paul's, Leamington Spa) and country (Ilmington) parishes. He was Rural Dean of Warwick and Leamington Spa before becoming the Area Dean of Shipston-on-Stour. Bill has been involved in the counselling world for 30 years. As a chaplain of a Maternity and Children's Hospital he began to research into the long term effects of the loss of a child. Since then he has gained an MPhil in theology from Birmingham University and PhD in psychology from Warwick University.
He has written a number of self-help books for bereaved parents and children. Bill is now the lead chaplain at Bournemouth 
University, from where he lectures both nationally and internationally on loss issues. He is currently carrying out research from a cross-cultural perspective. Bill runs Counselling Care, which provides counselling for bereaved parents, play therapy in schools and supervision for clergy, counsellors and pastoral workers. He has worked on a number of committees, including Chair of School Governors and the Board of Cord (Christian Outreach, Relief and Development).
Email Bill Merrington
Jonathan Clark is Manager of Premier Lifeline, and Director of Mind and Soul at Premier Christian Radio where he has been for over 11 years. He is actively involved with ACC. Lifeline and ACC jointly published the UK Directory of Christian Counselling and Care. He first undertook Christian counselling training with CWR in 1986. Jonathan qualified as a Mental Health social worker specialising in suicide and self-harm. He has worked in the statutory, voluntary and church sectors. He is an active member of a local church. He has been the minister of a couple of Free Churches and has an interest in the healing ministry. He is married to Miggs and they have two adult children.
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Pastor David Thomson Is in full time ministry and a member of the Pastoral team at Destiny Church, which consists of congregations in Glasgow and a network of churches in the UK, Europe and India. He is responsible for the development of counselling services as well as providing therapeutic counselling and pastoral care at the Glasgow Church. David has 
served ACC - Scotland in the capacity of Pastoral care co-ordinator and more recently as National Rep for Scotland.
He is Director of Destiny Foundation, overseeing the social action and mercy ministry work of the Church. Currently he is developing the Journey Network for pastors and leaders of local churches from across the denominations.
At Destiny College he teaches on Project Management, Mercy Ministries, Counselling and Pastoral Care. David has an infectious passion for God and for people and a desire to truly make a real, practical difference in the world locally and nationally.
Rev Dr Emmanuel Ojo Ademola is a a proactive academic and is internationally renowned in General Management, Process Management/Theology, Moral & Citizenship Education and Information and Communication Technology. He has lectured and given seminars at various tertiary institutions including colleges and universities in many international settings. He is highly professional in all his undertakings, a distinct leader and effective communicator.
He has been an examiner and assessor for a leading United Kingdom awarding body for over seven years. As a subject consultant and Principal Assessor on Citizenship Matters, he has developed curriculum for various institutions and awarding boards. He is a Fellow of various Royal Chartered Professional bodies of international reputation.
He is the current Chairman, Board of Directors of Power-Age Christian College, UK; Chairperson, University of Ibadan Nigeria/Power-Age Christian College Inter-border Partnership Project, UK; the current Chairman of the UK Coordinating Council of the Christ Apostolic Church, Worldwide and the UK Coordinator of the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti ((ABUAD) Nigeria amongst others.
