Activities Outside The Academy
Until recently, Joe Andrew has had a long history of involvement in Voluntary sector organisations set up to tackle Homelessness in North Staffordshire. From 1983 to 1991 he was on the voluntary Board of Management for Potteries Housing Association (a special needs housing charity which ran an emergency direct-access hostel in Hanley). He was a member of the North Staffs Homelessness Forum, the North Staffs Review Team for the Closure of DHSS Resettlement Units and the National Advisory Steering Group for the Closure of DHSS Resettlement Units. He served as Vice-Chair (1986-9) and Chair (1989–92) of North Staffs Standing Conference on Homelessness.
From 1987 to 2006, Andrew also served as the Chair of Committee of Resettlement Project North Staffs (which later became ‘ARCH North Staffs), a Charitable organisation providing a range of services to vulnerable people.
Andrew rediscovered his Catholicism after meeting his wife. He is a committed campaigner for CAFOD and an active lay Catholic.
He and his wife Barbara live in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent. Barbara Andrew also has a long history of voluntary work on behalf of the community.
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