CIGB Chaplains
For guidance on ways to keep well emotionally, mentally and spiritually during this challenging time, do look at our wellbeing page.
Please use the email contact information below to make contact in the first instance. Individual chaplains will then make arrangements to speak by phone.
Our Chaplains are mainly volunteers, lay and ordained people drawn from a variety of churches, who have had specific chaplaincy training in addition to their life skills.
Chaplains are available to staff of all backgrounds, faith or no faith, and will not proselytise.
Chaplaincy Locations and Contacts
Birmingham Airport
(Contact tanya@taaltd.co.uk)
- Tanya Arroba
- Bryan Snell
- Alive Snell
- Aftab Parwaz (Muslim)
- Neil Hodgetts
- John Ibidokun
- Stephen Saum
Birmingham City Centre Retail (including Bullring, Grand Central, Markets and Gt Western Arcade – see here for more)
(Contact chaplain@carrslane.co.uk)
- Elaine Hutchinson (Team Leader)
- Andrew Veitch
- Gavin Page
- Ivor Lewis
- John Fletcher
- Julia Johnson
- Kettie Gareta-Kanwamba
- Maxine Chamberlain
- Sam Edgar
Bournville College
(Contact TeamAdmin@cigb.org.uk)
- Lynda Stanton
- Gillian Finch
- Jason Horner
Jericho Foundation
(Contact rotimi.benjamin@ymcabirmingham.org.uk)
- Rotimi Benjamin
Kings Heath Shopping Centre
(Contact khchaplains@aol.com )
- Graham Wigley
- Herbie Rose
- Pat Wigley
Knowle and Dorridge Retail
(Contact knowlechaplains@gmail.com)
- Greg Dengate
- Keith Palmer
Longbridge Residential
(Contact soniasuejackson@gmail.com)
- Sonia Jackson
- David Jackson
- Irene Lees
- Irma Hilton
- Marlene Parsons
- Keith Parsons
Longbridge Town Centre Retail
(Contact TeamAdmin@cigb.org.uk)
- Val Dalton
- Joan Byrne
National Express Buses – West Midlands/Birmingham – more here
- John Bradley (Birmingham Central, Perry Barr and Yardley Wood Garages). Contact john@nxwmidschaplains.co.uk
- Lorna Kitchen (Acocks Green). Contact lorna@nxwmidschaplains.co.uk
Solihull Town Centre
(Contact solihullchaplains@gmail.com)
- Ann Polson
- Anne Rock
- Audrey Thompson
- David McKee
- Frances Critoph
Webster and Horsfall
(Contact TeamAdmin@cigb.org.uk)
- Fiona Joseph
West Midlands Fire Service – Birmingham and Solihull area
(Contact stephenjbentham@bcuim.co.uk )
- Israel Okunwaye
- Amber Watts
- Jessica Vadukul
- Tracy Sweet
Partnerships with other Chaplaincy organisations:
Birmingham YMCA Chaplaincy
(Contact rotimi.benjamin@ymcabirmingham.org.uk)
- Rotimi Benjamin
- Sandra Dryden
Cadbury Sixth Form College Chaplaincy
(Contact rpidgley@millpoolhill.com)
- Richard Pidgley
- Chris Milton
- David Ash
- Helen Barton
Waterways Chaplaincy / Birmingham Canals
(Contact richard@rabbitwarren.org.uk)
- Richard Alford
- Sunila Fernando