FOLLOWING the success of our Q&As in 2020-21 (still available on our YouTube channel), Open Table Network Co-Chair Sarah Hobbs will be in conversation with OTN Director Kieran Bohan.

Kieran and Sarah recorded a Q&A in July 2021, when Kieran was the national Coordinator of the newly registered Open Table Network charity. You can watch it here [60 mins].

Now, nearly four years on, the number of our communities has more than doubled, and much has changed for both of them - Kieran became OTN’s first Director in 2023, and began part-time training for ordination in the Methodist Church in 2024. Meanwhile, Sarah is preparing to step down as Co-Chair after five years to focus on training to become a priest in the Church of England.

The conversation will be recorded and will be available on OTN’s YouTube channel soon afterwards. Subscribe to our channel to receive an update on this and future new videos.

WATCH Kieran & Sarah’s intro videos:

WATCH Kieran’s intro video [2.5 mins]

Kieran Bohan

Kieran is one of the founders of the first Open Table community in Liverpool. He supports the Open Table communities across England and Wales, and to enable new communities to develop. He’s usually the one you’ll talk to if you get in touch with a query about OTN, or to find out how to join the network.

WATCH Sarah's intro video [2 mins].

Sarah Hobbs

Sarah leads a consultancy firm and is an experienced trainer who empowers and enables people to realise their potential. As well as being a passionate advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community and for the growth and development of the Open Table Network, she is studying as an ordinand in the Church of England. She also co-chairs a Yorkshire-based charity tackling food insecurity. She is a bi-romantic transgender woman who transitioned in 2017.