meet the team
Altitude Mission is overseen by our board of Trustees. The day-to-day running of Altitude during the winter season is done by our staff and Altituders. Our Altituders are with us for the whole season, and help to run and initiate all the mission projects. Finally, our Chaplains join us for a week or two at a time, to minister, serve, encourage, and mentor.
laura murdoch
Laura is married to Kev, and they have two lively young children, Rory and Jessie! They are based at Euston Church in central London and love the opportunities and challenges of mission and ministry there. Laura works part-time for Christians in Sport and has been a keen skier since she was a child, having had the privilege of being involved in several ski trips combining ministry, mission and skiing! They've been out to Meribel for the last two seasons as chaplains and are hugely excited to continue to be a part of the Altitude vision.
Julio Abraham
Rev’d Abraham is a leader and entrepreneur with an extensive experience in social venturing and business and currently in the role of CEO for Derby City Mission. He has an incredible talent in level 5 leadership, nurturing and developing hundreds of leaders around the world. Rev'd Abraham has a rare talent in Network and Networking of people, a real connector of high capacity people. He has a proven ability to raise resources for business plans from wealthy individuals, venture capitalists, grant making trusts, churches, government, banks and other businesses.
He holds a Master of Theology degree, and is a GIA Certified Gemologist. He is married to the love of his life and together they have a gorgeous daughter. The Abrahams are avid skiers and enjoy Safari holidays.
Heath Monaghan
Heath has been involved in the voluntary sector for 25 years, running a wide variety of charities and developing new ideas to provide solutions to community problems. He has acted as a charity consultant on best practice for governance, strategic direction and specialised in fundraising.
Most recently Heath has founded Aspire Ryde - a bold vision to save a much-loved heritage building and to engage a whole community in developing a range of activities. Aspire Ryde has won awards, has over 1000 users per week coming into the building and is now financially self-sustainable as a social enterprise with a clear Christian mission.
Peter missen (Chairman)
kate tiernan
SARAH MACFARLANE (TREASURER)
Sarah is a Senior Investor Relationships Manager at Big Society Capital, a social impact investment firm. Prior to this role, Sarah spent 7 years at PwC with most of that time spent as a tax advisor to high net worth and family office clients in the financial services sector. Sarah is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant and has worked with charities and social enterprises, advising on strategy, partnerships and finance.
In addition to her role with Altitude, she also supports Bankuet – a tech4good company that is an online platform connecting donors to local food banks, helping people to give what is needed.