We are a charity registered in England (no. 1117679) and a private company limited by guarantee (no 5969781).
We are also registered as an NGO in Southern Sudan (no 70).

The Trustees of the charity are:

• Rev Ross Collins, Chairman, Team Rector of Barnes Team Ministry, London
• Rev Joseph Ayok-Loewenberg, Team Vicar of St. George’s Team Ministry, Kidderminster, mail
• Mrs Karin Ayok-Loewenberg, Vice Chair, mail
• Mr Tony Evans, recently head of Kings College School, Wimbledon
• Dr David Jenkins-Handy, Lecturer in English, Birmingham
• Mrs Margaret Rudland, formerly Head of Godolphin and Latimer School, London
• Dr Ian Sykes, Treasurer and Company Secretary, a GP in the West Midlands, mail
• Rev Stephen Winter, Assistant Director of Development in the Diocese of Worcester

We receive administrative support from Mr Peter Boyling.

Our next Annual General Meeting will be on Saturday, 16th October 2010 in Kidderminster.
Read the notes of the annual UTS supporters meetings 2009 and 2008.

Contacts for information

The Swiss Association of Schulen unter Bäumen supports our work.
Their chairman is Mr Ruedi Gebendinger, and their address:
Verein Schulen unter Bäumen
Weststrasse 111, 8408 Winterthur, Switzerland
info(at)schulen-unter-baeumen.ch

Biography of Joseph Ayok-Loewenberg

Joseph was born in Malek, in Southern Sudan. His father was a head teacher. Joseph represented Sudan in the Olympics and ran in the 3000 metres steeplechase in the World Championships. He has also been pan-African high jump champion.
Joseph’s family suffered greatly in the war.

He went to Sweden for theological training in 1982 and to England in 1984, studying English at Whitby (where he met Karin who was also studying). After studying Theology at Trinity College, Bristol, he was ordained in 1988 in Salisbury, and served his curacy in Swanage. Joseph and Karin were married in 1990 and they both joined the Church Mission Society, serving in Bermondsey, London (and living for a time in Barnes with St Mary’s Church) before they left for Northern Uganda to serve in Sudanese refugee camps. Here he led youth ministry and theological lay training and Karin worked with UNHCR and Médecins sans Frontières as a nurse.

On return to England in 1995 he worked as a team vicar in West Dorset. To support his fellow Sudanese he sent bicycles for teachers, and achieved BBC publicity for the situation in his home area. In 2000 Joseph and Karin set up the ‘Under Tree Schools’ project in Aweil South County.

In 2002 Joseph and Karin with their two daughters moved to Alexandria in Egypt. They worked as mission partners for the Church Mission Society setting up a ministry for Sudanese refugees providing a centre (including a clinic) to help them develop their skills for the future. They were there for three years.

From 2005 until 2009 Joseph was Hon. Assistant Priest in the Barnes Team Ministry in southwest London, where both he and Karin supported the work of the Team. In October 2006 Joseph worked as Director for Religious Affairs in the Government of Southern Sudan responsible for promoting reconciliation, inter faith relations and advising on the religious education element of the new Sudan school curriculum.

In the autumn of 2009, Joseph and Karin with their family moved to Kidderminster where Joseph is Team Vicar in the St. George’s Team Ministry. They continue visiting Sudan on a regular basis.