Hotham Mission is governed by a Board appointed by the Church Council of the Uniting Church Congregation of Mark the Evangelist, Parkville. 

The Board currently has 9 members: 

Mark Duckworth, Chair 

Craig Thompson, Deputy Chair 

David Vincent, Treasurer 

Gaye Champion, Secretary 

Leanne Beagley

Michael Golding 

Jim Knight 

Mepandi Lama 

Vicki Radcliffe 

All current Board members are members of Mark the Evangelist Congregation or of our ecumenical partner congregations: West Melbourne Baptist Church, St Mary’s Anglican Church, North Melbourne, and St George’s Anglican Church, Travancore. 

Board members hold a range of educational qualifications, with the majority having tertiary qualifications, including a number with PhD’s or other post-graduate degrees. They bring a wide range of knowledge, experience, skills and expertise to their positions as Board members. Included are: theology; law; relevant lived experience; accounting; social work, community development and social welfare; education; marketing and fundraising; strategic planning and compliance; corporate governance; public and social policy; senior public service employment; organizational leadership including CEO experience; and human resources management. 

All are committed to using their knowledge and experience to further the work of Hotham Mission to advocate and work for social justice and equality of opportunity for the vulnerable and marginalised in our area, that all with whom Hotham Mission are in contact might hear and experience something of God’s reconciling and transforming love.