Site Last Updated

 09 Oct 07

Score has both Full-Time & Volunteer Staff personnel (see below).

Score has a Management Committee which is responsible for the oversight of the charity.

Score has Regional Development Groups responsible for the oversight of activities in the rest of the United Kingdom.

SCORE is essentially a resourcing and placement agency, with specialist experience in the niche area of sports chaplaincy.

Our staff are not simply those who work as chaplains.  SCORE staff are employed to develop the chaplaincy network in sport. They seek to identify those especially suited to sports chaplaincy; to negotiate for their placement; to train, induct and resource them; and to network them with other SCORE chaplains.

All of our staff are personally experienced in sports chaplaincy, and are line-managed from the SCORE Management Committee, the Trustee Group responsible for the oversight of the charity.

     National Director

Rev John K. Boyers, BA,BEd

John is the National Director of SCORE.  He is based in Manchester, where he is Chaplain to Manchester United Football Club. He encourages the work of SCORE nationally, regularly visits the regions, and helps to spread the work of chaplaincy in Sport. He also visits local churches to explain the work of SCORE and the part sports can play in the outreach work of a church.  John has written a book about his work in SCORE, entitled, “Beyond the Final Whistle”.  If you would like a copy, please contact us using the email page on this website.

Chaplain to Horse Racing

Rev Graham Locking

Graham is a Methodist Minister who has pioneered this innovative work amongst the Horse Racing community. He is based in Newmarket and has established wide contacts among the stable lads and lasses, trainers, owners and jockeys; and has been well-received throughout the whole racing community.

Chaplaincy Coordinator for Women in Sport

Rev Mary Vickers

Mary is an Anglican Priest, who is currently based near Andover. Her particular responsibility is to create openings for chaplaincy within women’s sport. She also seeks to identify, and offer support to, those who work as chaplains to women in sport.  She has considerable chaplaincy experience, not least at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She currently works for SCORE on an expenses-only basis as we have not yet been able to find funding for her post.

Rugby Union Chaplaincy Coordinator

Rev David Chawner

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David has been chaplain to London Wasps RUFC for over 5 years and until 2006 worked as SCORE’s volunteer coordinator of Rugby Union chaplaincy. In January 2007 he left his former job as Senior Minister at Haven Green Baptist Church, Ealing, West London, to become SCORE’s full time Coordinator of Rugby Union Chaplaincy.  In recent months David has overseen major progress in the development of chaplaincy Rugby Union.

Rugby League Chaplaincy Coordinators

Rev Allen Bagshawe and Rev Peter Dale

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Allen and Peter work for SCORE as Co-coordinators for chaplaincy in Rugby League, alongside their local church responsibilities. Allen has had long experience as chaplain to Hull RLFC while Peter for the last three seasons has chaplained Bradford Bulls RLFC. Both are working to support our existing Rugby League chaplains and to extend this network.

Chaplaincy in County Cricket

Rev Malcolm Lorimer and Rev Max Wigley

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SCORE’s longest established County Cricket chaplains are Lancashire’s Malcolm Lorimer and Yorkshire’s Max Wigley.  They also work as volunteers to advise and support on the development of the network within the sport.

Administration

Ms Sallay Bates and Mr David Nelson

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Like all organisations, SCORE needs organisational expertise.  We have an administrator who works in our south Manchester office, Sally Bates and a book-keeper, David Nelson, who deals with many financial matters – salaries, tax, income, donations, gift-aided monies, standing orders, membership subscriptions etc and he works from his home office in Yorkshire.