Edward Mason to leave the Church Commissioners

THE Church Commissioners’ Head of Responsible Investment, Edward Mason, is to leave his post in June to be director of engagement and impact-reporting at Generation Investment Management, a sustainable-investment management firm. The company was co-founded in 2004 by the former US Vice-President Al Gore, and a former head of asset management at Goldman Sachs, David Blood. Mr Mason wrote on Twitter on Monday: “After 11 amazing years at the Church Commissioners, I’m excited to be joining Generation Investment Management in June — a firm for whom #ClimateAction is as much a mission as it is to me personally.”

BRF launches ‘Living Faith’ branding

AFTER a strategic review last year, the Bible Reading Fellowship (BRF) has decided to adopt a “distinct name and easily recognisable identity” for its publishing and events programme as “one of the six core areas of our work”. It explains: “Because our goal is to create content that helps people to experience a vibrant, living faith and to actively live out their faith in their communities, we chose the name ‘Living Faith’ for this area of our work.” It includes book-publishing, five series of Bible-reading notes, and events such as the annual Festival of Prayer organised with Oxford diocese.