Our Minister & Team

Minister: Manuel Zimmermann Grey

Venue Manager

Peter Yardley-Jones FRSA BMus(Hons), is a first-class honours graduate in music from the University of Glasgow. From 2006-2008 he was University Organ Scholar and in 2008 he was appointed Assistant Organist at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow and Organist at Houston & Killellan Kirk. During his time in Glasgow, Peter studied organ with Kevin Bowyer and renowned Bach scholar, Prof. John Butt OBE. Widely respected as a performer, Peter was awarded the Muriel Thorne Hague Memorial Prize, by his University for achieving the greatest distinction in performance and in 2005 won first prize in the nationwide Geoffrey Spiers Organ Competition.

As a recitalist he has performed at many UK Cathedrals and Concert Halls and has performed on many solo USA tours. In addition Peter has been organist for several BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4 broadcasts and for BBC Television’s Songs of Praise.

Outside of his music profession, he works in online advertising and is also a licensed flying instructor for aeroplanes.

www.peteryardleyjones.com

Finance Officer 

Janice O’Brien

Janice grew up in the Midlands and after an initial career in finance and HR left BT to take up a place at drama school. After completing her studies, she moved to London where she has lived ever since.

After a time of performing in fringe and West End stage productions Janice moved into stand-up comedy working in London cabaret venues and taking one-woman shows to the Edinburgh fringe. This is when she discovered a love for writing and began to write for other comedians and artists, for stage, TV, and short films.

She then returned to her finance career working for an advertising company, progressing onto operations and systems in other business industries in the UK, US and EC. Janice very much enjoyed the challenges of operations, solving organisation’s complex business needs whilst minimising disruption. But feeling a strong need for a creative outlet, (and after years of intensive travel and long hours), Janice decided to downsize her career to free up time for writing.

In recent years she has worked part-time in operations whilst having time to write. She has entered writing competitions and been shortlisted for, a TV comedy series based on her voluntary experience with the police community, a short film script about a blind boy and a thriller feature film depicting a compulsive and destructive attraction.

Janice feels that she has finally got the balance right with dual careers. The satisfying, rewarding issues of business productivity and process, and the creative nourishment of putting pen to paper.

Email: finance@swisschurchlondon.org.uk

Janice works part-time and can best be reached via email. 

Office Admin Assistant 

Ryan Moshwe is the Office Admin Assistant for the Swiss Church in London. Ryan is a born and bred Londoner and Camden resident who has joined the Swiss Church team initially through the Camden Giving Pathways into Employment scheme.

Ryan does YouTube for a hobby, mainly about gaming. Video games have been part of his whole life. He hopes that someday he can make that hobby into a career because he enjoys it very much and it’s fun. Ryan also plays football with his friends and likes the occasional day trip to the seaside.

Phone: 020 7836 1418

Email: admin-assistant@swisschurchlondon.org.uk

Ryan works Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10am-3pm.

Diane Chappalley, Art Programme Manager (artist)

Art Programme Manager (artist)

Lizzy Drury is an Artist based in London. Since completing her Masters in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2017, she has exhibited her drawings across the UK and India.

She is also co-founder of Hot Desque, a nomadic arts practice that presents theatrical contemporary art exhibitions, installations, workshops and essays. Her areas of research include Object Attachment Theory, deep ecology and Re-Enchantment.

In her role as Art Programme Manager, Lizzy supports the Art Committee and church team with the planning and implementing of the Art Programme.

Diane works part-time and can best be reached via email. 

Email: artscommunity@swisschurchlondon.org.uk

Church Warden: Errol Love 

Caretaker: Rupert Ackroyd

Swiss Church News Editor: James Rasa

Swiss Church London Consistoire

The Consistoire (equivalent of a Parish Council) is the Governing Body of the Swiss Church in London and administers and manages the Swiss Church in London, its property and its internal and external affairs in accordance with the constitution.

To contact the Consistoire email: info@swisschurchlondon.org.uk

Members of the Consistoire

Daniel Everett 
President of the Consistoire

Member since 2023

Katrin Frey 
Vice-President of the Consistoire

Safeguarding and Marriage Registrar
Member since 2021

Katrin Frey grew up in Frenkendorf (BL) and studied Theology at the Universities of Basel, Zurich and Be’er Sheva (IL). Her main interests were and are Feminist and Intersectional Theologies, Semitistic, as well as Theology in TV and Film such as the BBC’s Doctor Who. Katrin remains inspired by trailblazers like Marga Bührig, Teresa of Avila or Nadia Bolz-Weber. Fascinated by funny languages, Katrin has been learning Welsh for a couple of years.

In 2017 Katrin moved to London for a change of scenery and to follow the call of the big city. (She still hopes to bump into Helen Mirren one day…) Here she first worked in German translation and content creation for SEGA among others and then in Buying Administration for Lidl UK between 2019 and 2022. In October 2022 Katrin has taken over caring responsibilities of her baby nephew.

At the Swiss Church Katrin is your Safeguarding Officer and the responsible person to authorise weddings (same sex and opposite sex). For 2022 she was acting chair and since the end of the year vice president. Katrin lives in Raynes Park with her family.

You can reach Katrin under this email address: safeguarding@swisschurchlondon.org.uk

Niccolo Aliano 
Trustee

Niccolò was born and grew in Florence, Italy, from a Swiss mother and an Italian father. His Swiss side of the family hails from Val-de-Travers, in the canton of Neuchâtel, but his relatives are now spread across Ticino, Geneva, and the Valais. Niccolò discovered the Swiss Church by chance in 2013 while he was studying history at King’s College London, and was confirmed there in July of 2015. While living in London, he led Still Reforming, a project uniting 13 different churches, including the Swiss Church in London, for the commemoration of the 500^th anniversary of the Reformation.

Niccolò moved to Scotland in 2016, first to St. Andrews, where he obtained a masters in Reformation Studies, and then to Edinburgh, where he began a PhD on the link between the friendships and theological thought of James Ussher, a seventeenth-century Protestant archbishop of Ireland. He also started training to become a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church; however, the consequences of the Covid pandemic have paused this for now. He is grateful for the opportunity to work with the Consistoire, with whom he hopes to help strengthen the ministry of the Swiss Church.

Mr Philip Maillardet
Trustee
History and Archives
Member since 2009

Mrs Cécile Mistry
Trustee
Catering Manager, Food safety
Member since 2009

Counsel General Mr Thomas Wagner
Since 2022. Ex-officio observer from the Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom.