The Pilgrimage Management Committee (PMC)

The Trustees appoint Pilgrimage Officers (the heads of the different service sections including doctors, nurses, brancs, handmaids). It also appoints the Young Helpers' Group leader. The Pilgrimage Officers, the YHG leader, together with the Diocesan Directors, make up the Pilgrimage Management Committee (PMC). Trustees are permitted to attend meetings of the PMC but, apart from two or three who have specific functions there, it is generally thought that the PMC should be allowed to manage itself. There is some overlap of membership and responsibilities between the Trustees, the PMC, and the Hospitalité Council. The PMC is responsible for the actual organisation and practicalities of the annual Lourdes pilgrimage. As at October 2011, the membership of the PMC consists of:

• Rt Rev. Paul Hendricks, Auxillary Bishop of Southwark (Chairman)
• Rev Bill Saunders (Pilgrimage Director)
• Dr Steve Gill (Treasurer)
• Dr Sadie Vile (Secretary)
• Mr Matt Betts (Chief Brancardier)
• Miss Anna Jackson (Chief Handmaid)
• Dr Adam Farmer (Chief Medical Officer)
• Miss Rachel Easton (Chief Nurse)
• Mr David Ball (Young Helpers’ Group Leader)
• Rev Antony Lester, O.Carm (Chaplain to the Assisted Pilgrims & CA Hospitalité)
• Mrs Judy Ball (Director of Music)
• Mrs Joanna Fernandes (Glanfield Children’s Group)
• Mr Chris Buller (President, CA Hospitalite)
• Rev Philip Glandfield (CA Master of Ceremonies)
• Ms Osyth Hawke (CA Safeguarding Officer)
• Mr Simon Gallop or Ms Nicole Gallop Mildon (HCP)
• A Director or Co-ordinator from each of the Diocesan Groups:
  • Mr Johan Bergström-Allen (Camelites)
  • Rev David Wakefield (Clifton)
  • Rev Alan McMahon & Rev Clive Brooks (East Anglia)
  • Rev Fr Damien Walne (Northampton)
  • Rev Mgr Vincent Harvey (Portsmouth)
  • Dr Nuala Mellows (Stonyhurst)
  • Rev Michael Kennedy (Southwark)