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BRIAN Newey is stepping down as Chair of the Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance after 12 years in the role.
Brian says one of the highlights of his volunteer position has been the people he has met and the encouraging responses he has received when asking for people to donate a lot of money. He said it has been a challenge to keep the message fresh and looking at things that are concerning people.
He said: "It's trying to get an angle on them that helps them and helping deaneries that were in trouble.
It's about thinking in new ways about money and that is still working.
It's a case of seeing so many opportunities. Brian began working in the rail industry as a management trainee in 1960.
He was a station master in London, a divisional manager in Birmingham. "It was a really lovely career.
It brought together a lot of communicating and financial and project management skills and that fits in very well with working alongside professionals in the diocese," he says. Brian is a Licensed Lay Minister at St Laurence's, Warborough, where he has worshipped since he moved to the parish. The Revd John Tattersall will be taking over as Chair of the Board of Finance. Nigel Wearne, the Director of Finance at the Diocese of Oxford is also retiring this month.