Louise was born in Crewe, Cheshire, and has been married for 40 years with four grown up children and seven grandchildren. She has worked in a Catholic school as a swimming teacher, a classroom assistant, teaching assistant and school secretary. Louise has been in Wolverhampton since 2016 and worked as a carer. She attends St Thomas and St Christopher churches regularly and sings in the choir. Louise has been a Governor for two years and is very enthusiastic about the care and education of the children of our schools.

My name is Lian Hargreaves and I was born and raised in Liverpool. I moved to Birmingham in 1995 when I was 19, initially through the Jesuit Volunteers and then securing a permanent role as a live in carer, working for The Lisieux Trust.

I have worked in the Health and Social Care sector for over 28 years, predominantly supporting adults with learning and physical disabilities and autism, working as a Registered Manager under the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for 16 years, responsible for quality, compliance, regulated support and was the safeguarding lead.

I currently work as a Care Policy Manager for a national organisation, responsible for overseeing the governance, quality and compliance.

I am a parishioner at St Joseph’s Wolverhampton and part of the music ministry. Music is a real passion and I have been a part of CJM Music for the past 13 years, providing music and liturgy at church conferences around the country as well concerts at key times in the churches calendar.

Emma was born in Wolverhampton. She has NVQ levels 1,2,3 in hairdressing and has been working at the same shop for 31 years! She has seven children, who all have attended Holy Rosary; she has been a parent Governor for five years previously and is now on the LGB again. She has done lots of fundraising for school over the years and will continue to do so.

Rachel has always lived in Wolverhampton apart from a few summers when she lived in Greece working in 5* hotels and a winter spent in Germany working for the NAAFI. Before becoming a parent. she worked in Quality Assurance implementing ISO standards, writing company policies and procedures whilst recommending measures/improvements as a result of findings from internal audits and investigations into customer complaints. It was through this line of work that she gained qualifications in customer service and quality management.

Since starting a family, she has worked part-time in three different primary schools at lunchtimes where she has gained many skills working with children from ages 4 to 11.