As a born-and-bred Wiganer from a working-class family, my journey from childhood to now (aged 51) has taken me through a wide range of jobs. From working in a clothes shop at 13, to supporting adults with disabilities, working in a care home, dancing in a bar in Tenerife (don’t ask!), working in a gym, qualifying as a criminal defence solicitor, becoming CEO of a charity supporting marginalised young people—and now serving as Director of Snake Pit Wigan and Club Coordinator

Loving your neighbour is a human as well as a spiritual calling. It is the quiet movement at the heart of a Better Story. When Jesus spoke of loving your neighbour, He was not offering advice for a polite society. He was describing the very shape of the Kingdom of God bursting into ordinary streets. Love, in its truest sense, is not sentiment — it is sacrificial presence. The Better Story framework begins with a simple but profound conviction: God is already at work in our to

When people speak about Wigan, they often reach for statistics. Deprivation indices. Regeneration plans. Economic forecasts. But statistics are rarely where hope begins. Hope begins with story. The lens of Better Story invites us to look again. Not at what is broken first, or what has been lost but at what is possible. Wigan has always been a place of graft and grit. From its industrial heritage to its grassroots community spirit, this town carries a deep memory of resilience