James VineI was born and brought up in the Village of Westham, and attended Pevensey & Westham Primary School, Willingdon Secondary school and Eastbourne Sixth form College I began a nursing career in Hastings in 1985, qualifying as a Registered General Nurse in the May of 1988, working initially in paediatrics, then moving on to Adult Cardiac Care. During my nursing Career I completed a BSc. (Hons) degree course with Brighton University. I responded to a call to Ordained ministry towards the end of the 1990’s, attended theological college at St. Stephen’s House Oxford, obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Ministry and was ordained in the summer of 2000. I graduated with honours with an MA in Christian Spirituality from Winchester University in the autumn of 2017. Having served my Curacy at Eastbourne Parish Church, I served as Vicar of Saint Luke’s Stone Cross with North Langney from 2003 to 2023 and now Rector of the Weald Way Benefice: The Parish Churches of Chiddingly, Framfield and East Hoathly. I am married to Clare and we have two grown up children; Chloe who is a Piano Teacher and Sebastian who lives with his Fiancé in Bournemouth and manages a large Wetherspoons in the town centre.
I’m really looking forward to playing my part in the governance of the schools.