The Revd Canon Adam Gaunt is Rector of Loftus-in-Cleveland and Carlin How with Skinningrove, Canon of York and Prebendary of Botevant in the Diocese of York. Canon Gaunt has served on the General Synod since 2015 and became a trustee the PBS in 2020 after speaking about the successful new parish church choir at Saint Leonard’s Parish Church in Loftus at the PBS conference in 2019.