With many years of service to the community and to the church, Gillian Geraghty can certainly be counted among the comparatively small number of willing helpers who constitute the backbone of our parish.  Currently, and for some time now, secretary of the Hale DCC, Gillian probably knows as much about what goes on in the parish as anyone, and she is always ready to use this knowledge to smooth the wheels of parish life.

Rita Newell has been praising the Lord in song with her clear, true voice pretty well all her life, and she has been doing this very much in our part of the world. Born in Aldershot, educated in the town and married to a local man, Rita is as much a native of this area as it is possible to be. 

A Surrey man through and through, Peter Haines was born in Sheen, moved to Farnham nearly forty years ago, and has lived in the home he shares with Elizabeth in Oakland Avenue ever since.  In fact, Peter and Elizabeth have been close to each other all their lives: as children they lived in neighbouring streets, then they attended the same church youth club, and now they are a permanent and well-loved feature of the parish scene.

There are not many parishioners who would readily visualise our Parish Treasurer working in a coal mine.  It is among the more surprising aspects of Jim Miller's long and busy life that that is what he did. Born and bred in Essex where he spent the first half-century of his life, Jim left his grammar school at the age of 14 and went straight into civil engineering, a field in which he was eventually to build a life-long career.

A lifelong interest in crime is a quality not often found in churchwardens, but with Martin Reed this is an important ingredient; so much so, indeed, that he has been fortunate enough to make this his career as well as his interest.

Hale's new churchwarden, Bea Daniel, brings a fresh and unusual perspective to our parish: Bea is an American.

Bea was born and raised in Eastchester, a suburb of New York, and she lived most of her life until fairly recently in or near New York.  When people ask her what part of the States she comes from, she usually replies proudly "I'm a New Yorker."