Robert Thomas

IT Officer and Corporate Counsel

Rob provides solutions for computer needs in ARI and some of the other teams. He also is a legal adviser to the ARI Finance Committee. He is based in England and works part-time for A Rocha UK, not just with their computers, but also managing their Friends scheme. Rob is qualified as a lawyer, and practiced as a solicitor in England for 23 years before joining A Rocha.

Rob specialised mainly in property law, and also in trust and charity law. He has championed the use of IT to solve practical situations, and developed a specialism in writing database software for use in large-scale property transactions for housing associations. He continues to work in this field as a consultant to solicitors.

He is a keen photographer and has developed a love of the world God created when trying to capture its variety and beauty in his photographs. He caught the vision of working for A Rocha through hearing Peter Harris preach, and then by taking part in a photographic holiday run by A Rocha France at Les Tourades.

Rob and his wife Kathy were the first managers of the A Rocha UK Centre in Southall, which they set up and where they lived and worked from 2003 to 2006.