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About the team

Shelley Dring

Shelley is the phenomenal artistic force within GenR8 and drives a lot of the visual and dynamic art that we use.  She has designed banners and artwork and also leads art-based activities on the events.  Her creativity in planning the events is a huge strength and she often comes up with more ideas than there is time to do!
Shelley is an accomplished dancer and has led prophetic dance at worship events such as Spring Harvest, New Wine, Spirit in the City (Leeds), and more.  She has used this talent in GenR8 events, and most particularly in Worship through Movement Workshops she runs under the banner of NorthStar.
Shelley is the key leader in the "WOW!" events drawing on her  professional career as a primary teacher and now Educational Officer within Leeds City Council to lead activities, prayers and talks on the theme.  Her experience is invaluable in ensuring that GenR8 maintains its ‘all-age’ accessibility. 
She is married to Nathan.

Nathan Dring

Nathan brings another creative slant to GenR8 from his talents and experience as part of Red Balloon, the schools-focussed wing of Saltmine Christian Theatre Company.  He is a huge asset to the team as an enthusiastic and engaging speaker and he has an enormous desire to preach and share the Good News of Jesus Christ - he is most definitely the upfront evangelist of the team.
Nathan has a great love for and knowledge of scripture which enables GenR8 to be true to its founding aims of being Biblically-based in all it does.  He also brings with this a fantastic attitude of joy and fun which invigorates not just the planning, but also the events themselves.  He is a Lay Reader in the Church of England.
He is married to Shelley.

Richard Thompson

Richard brings an experience of planning and implementing projects in a business context.  He is keen to maintain the professional approach that GenR8 has adopted from the start and works on the communication channels and pre- and post-event publicity in line with those initial high standards.  He is responsible for the website pages and email links.
Like the rest of the team, he brings creativity to the project as well.  He is working on improving the graphics and images used by GenR8 as well as being responsible for much of the available material that GenR8 produces.  He is also part of the event planning and contributes, like others, in creating the events ‘from scratch’.
He is married to Kathryn and has two children, Joel and Hannah.