Clare Wood will serve as Assistant Curate of the Benefice of Skipton Christ Church with Carleton St Mary. For the past three years, she has been training for ordination at St Hild College. Previous to this, she has worked as a maths teacher in East Sussex, a hotel manager in France and a lecturer in Kazakhstan. Clare and her husband Matt moved to Yorkshire in 2020 when he started his curacy. Since then she has been enjoying exploring the footpaths of the Dales, paying particular attention to those that lead to tea rooms and pubs. She is very much looking forward to getting to know another part of ‘God’s own country’.