Who's Who

MJR - Who is involved?

MJR is led by a group of trustees and supported by a number of advisors and consultants. Together these represent a wide cross-section of Christian organisations and traditions. It is our hope that the reconciliation we seek for wider society can in some small way be reflected within our movement.

Trustees

Joe Aldred
Responsible for Pentecostal and Multicultural Relations at Churches Together in England, Joe is also a bishop in the Church of God of Prophecy. He has extensive experience as bishop and pastor, chair and member of strategic councils, boards and committees mainly in the areas of religion, education, health and community relations and is a BBC broadcaster. Joe has a PhD in Theology and is author/editor of several books.

Alton Bell (Chair)
Alton is a qualified Industrial Chemist, a pastor, a writer and community activist. He is the CEO of Pivot Point Community Development foundation and a director of SWAY youth project in LB Brent. He is concerned with the disproportionate amount of black youngsters underachieving educationally and at risk of prison.

Jenny Cooper
Jenny runs ‘Mystery in History’. She is a qualified school teacher with experience in developing workshops and materials relating to the Atlantic slave trade. She has set up and managed an historic house as a visitor attraction, and has worked as a consultant in museum development and tourism management.

Keith Cottrell
Keith is an economist who worked in both public and private sectors. Now retired he is a trustee and advisor with several Christian charities able to help on financial and legal issues. Born in a Crown Colony, the legacies of the colonial era have long been a focus for Keith, reinforced by extensive business travel in West Africa and the Caribbean.

Khareem Jamal
Khareem Jamal is a historian, writer and musician. Chairman of Micah Community Projects, founder and senior lecturer in African history at the School of Africology in Bromley, London. He is the author of the play 'The Voices of Black Folk'.

Paul Keeble (deputy chair)
Paul has lived in inner-city Manchester for over 30 years and is a co-founder of Urban Presence. He has been involved in numerous shalom-generating community projects and church-based initiatives and is the author of 'Mission With'.