Clare Downing

Clare Downing was appointed as the Co-ordinator of Lay Training at the St Philip's Centre in January 2007. She is a Minster of the United Reformed Church, and before moving to the Centre, spent eight years serving two churches in Leicester.

During this time she became involved in various multi faith concerns, including the Christian/Muslim dialogue groups, and serving on the Management Group of the Leicester Faith Regeneration Project.

She is involved in many of the Centre's courses, but is particularly interested in helping people who live, work and worship in multi faith areas to learn more about each other, and find ways of talking about faith issues.

Clare is a member of the Training Team of the East Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church, through which she has been involved in running a variety of events and courses, both within the denomination, and ecumenically.   

She is also a regular contributor to Radio Leicester's 'Thought for the Day'