Anne has considerable experience of how a parish works, having been at various times Deanery Synod representative, Benefice Administrator, PCC secretary, treasurer's wife and churchwarden in Aldham. She took on the job of PCC secretary for the second time in April 2003.

She has two grown-up sons, Richard and Jamie. Anne comes from a long line of Anglican clergy. Her uncle, grandfather and great grandfather were all rectors of Waldringfield in Suffolk; her cousin is currently rector there and her father was rector of Frostenden and South Cove, also in Suffolk.

Anne plays the organ and the piano for our worship in church. Out of church she plays the violin in the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra and sings with Lexden Choral Society.