Church Champions: Training

Our speaker this month was Andrew Wileman from The Salvation Army, who will be speaking to us about Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Andrew is the Assistant Director for the Salvation Army Older Peoples Ministries Team, and manages the team of Outreach Mission partners for older people working on a range of local and programme development projects across the UK and Ireland. He is a regular public speaker in Churches and Centres and on local and national media and has wide experience in Social Justice issues both here in the UK and overseas, particularly his focus on the Salvation Army’s work in Older People, social care, Human Trafficking and on Eastern Europe where he has visited many times. Andrew originally hails from Yorkshire, but now lives on the South Coast and has been a active member of the Winton Salvation Army Corps in Bournemouth for the past 24 years. He is married to Karen, and has a son and 2 daughters.