Rich Gower

Rich Gower has spent twenty years wrestling with what it means to really love and really live in this broken world. He worked on international negotiations for the UK government before escaping from the civil service (via Oxfam), and then working at the grassroots in Zimbabwe, and later Bradford. He is currently the Managing Director of Counselling Carers CIC, a growing social enterprise devoted to improving the emotional wellbeing support available to carers in the UK. Over recent years he has also played a major role convening the Fair Circularity Initiative, and pioneering Tearfund's global advocacy work on plastics and waste. He launched the Hopeful Activists' Podcast in 2019 (alongside Abi Thomas) as part of the Praxis Centre for Hope and Activism.