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Our people
Girlguiding Scotland is made up of a small team of staff working in partnership with volunteers to deliver guiding to our 40,000 members and 9,000 volunteers across Scotland. Find out more about the people who make guiding happen below. To get touch with our staff or volunteers please fill in our contact form.
Alison supports the Scottish chief commissioner and her team. She is also vice chair of the appointments committee, and focusses on environmental issues, and equity, diversity and inclusion.
Alison McLaughlin
Assistant Scottish chief commissioner
Sarah supports the Scottish chief commissioner, along with the rest of the chief commissioner team and is the chair of the operational board. She is also a trustee.
Sarah MacNeil
Deputy Scottish chief commissioner
Elaine is the lead volunteer for Scotland with overall responsibility for making sure we continue to inspire girls across the country. Elaine also chairs the trustee board, and the appointments committee.
Elaine Rough
Scottish chief commissioner
Lyndsay supports the Scottish chief commissioner, and her team. Lyndsay is chair of the county support team, supporting volunteers with issues regarding safeguarding, concerns, compliance and equity, diversity and inclusion.
Lyndsay Strang
Assistant Scottish chief commissioner
Carol oversees the work of the awards committee, who consider nominations for the Scottish Chief Commissioner's award, and the Scottish Chief Commissioner's Thistle award as well as Laurel and Silver Fish awards.
Carol Morwood
Chair of awards committee
Alison is chair of the business management and finance committee, who are responsible for reviewing the organisation's financial management and strategy, as well as retail, IT and HR. She is also a trustee.
Alison Irving
Chair of business management and finance committee
Kate is one of our 18-30 trustees. Our trustees are responsible for making decisions about the organisation's budget, operations and strategy. She is a unit leader and brings professional experience in financial and risk management.
Kate McGrath
Member trustee
Lisbeth is the honorary treasurer, providing support and advice on a range of issues relating to finance, to the business management and finance committee, and as a member of the trustee board.
Lisbeth Macmillan
Honorary treasurer
As an external trustee, Susan brings experience as a chief executive within the third sector. She has also worked extensively with young people, encouraging youth voice and participation.
Susan Hunter
External trustee
Louise is a member trustee, she brings experience in guiding as a previous county commissioner. Our trustees are responsible for making decisions about the organisation's budget, operations and strategy.
Louise Crichton
Member trustee
Evelyn's expertise is in guiding, she's been an assistant county commissioner and a Brownie leader for 35 years. Out trustees are responsible for making decisions about the organisation's budget, operations and strategy.
Evelyn McWhinnie
Member trustee
Jill has held roles as district, division and county commissioner as well as being a unit leader for over 20 years. Our trustees are responsible for making decisions about the organisation's budget, operations and strategy.
Jill Elborn
Member trustee
Milly has been has held leadership roles in guiding for 20 years and has been a a district and division commissioner. She brings third sector experience in staff and volunteer recruitment to our trustee board.
Milly Mackinnon
Member trustee
Erin is one of our 18-30 trustees. Our trustees are responsible for making decisions about the organisation's budget, operations and strategy. She has been a member since Rainbows, and, for the past 5 years, has been in leadership roles.
Erin McIntosh
Member trustee
As an external trustee, Alison brings with her expertise in issues relating to gender and health. Our trustees are responsible for making decisions about the organisation's budget, operations and strategy.
Alison Scott
External trustee
Works with the wider Girlguiding Scotland team to ensure that our volunteers have a rewarding experience. As a member of the operational board she helps make decisions on the work that the organisation will deliver.
Janice Blair
Lead volunteer for volunteer experience
Lorraine works with the Girlguiding Scotland team to ensure that we are offering unrivalled experiences for girls. As a member of the operational board she helps make decisions on the work that the organisation will deliver.
Lorraine Dickson
Lead volunteer for girl experience
Works with the Girlguiding Scotland team to grow our membership and enable more people to be involved. As a member of the operational board she helps make decisions on the work that the we deliver.
Susan Brown
Lead volunteer for membership development and growth
Eleanor works with the Girlguiding Scotland team to improve how we engage with our members. As a member of the operational board she helps make decisions on the work that the organisation will deliver.
Eleanor Swift
Lead volunteer for membership engagement and member communications
Katie makes sure that girls' voices are at the heart of everything we do. As a member of the operational board she helps make decisions on the work that the organisation will deliver.
Katie Horsburgh
Lead volunteer for girl voice
Emily leads on delivering our youth advocacy programme, Speak Out, and supports our representatives elected to the Scottish Youth Parliament. She also leads on policy positions, consultation responses, and research.
Emily Arrowsmith
Engagement officer
Works to ensure volunteers have a positive experience. She leads on supporting trainers and volunteer learning and development. She works in partnership with our lead volunteer for volunteer experience.
Ann-Marie MacRae
Volunteer experience project coordinator
Christine works across 2 teams, assisting finance with processing expenses, grant payments and credit control, and in our retail team managing stock control for the shop and online store.
Christine Crawley
Retail and finance admin Carol looks after payroll, pension schemes, processes supplier and grant payments and ensures accounting transactions and monthly reconciliations are processed accurately. She also supports FOGGS.
Carol Ward
Senior finance officer
Stephanie provides support to our members across the counties, embedding best practice and complying with relevant guiding policies and external legislation. She also supports work of our internal governance committees.
Stephanie Johnston
Compliance coordinator Erin works to support the Girlguiding Scotland governance structure and to help make sure that the organisation fulfils its charitable obligations. Erin also provides support to the Scottish chief commissioner team.
Erin John
Governance Coordinator
Tori supports on the development, delivery and evaluation of innovative projects. She primarily works on the Transformational Leadership Project, alongside exploring new approaches, including co-production.
Tori Foreman
Project officer
Ali works with volunteers across Scotland to create and deliver personalised volunteer recruitment and welcome plans. She promotes guiding to potential volunteers and builds relationships with external organisations.
Ali Fox
Volunteer recruitment officer
Ash gives admin support for the membership development and growth team, supporting grant-giving, development work and volunteer welcome sessions. They’re also the first point of contact for new member enquiries.
Ash Strain
Membership and grants administrator
Anna delivers the Generation CashBack project, supporting and visiting Guide and Ranger units in areas with less opportunities to increase capacity, offer a wider range of experiences and run leadership skills sessions.
Anna Hannen-Thomas
CashBack development officer
Rachel plans and delivers large scale events and exciting challenge packs. She supports international, DofE and peer education. She works in partnership with our lead volunteer for girl experience and volunteer project teams.
Rachel Thomas
Girl experience project coordinator
Sarah creates content for, and manages, our website, social media and e-newsletters. She also visits units and events taking pictures, filming, and collecting stories. She works in partnership with our lead volunteer for PRAs.
Sarah Richardson
Digital marketing officer Cat oversees the work of the governance and compliance team, whose responsibilities include Scottish level and county governance, compliance with Girlguiding policy and legislation, HR and IT.
Cat Campbell
Governance and compliance manager Fay is responsible for delivering Girlguiding Scotland's financial management and strategy.
Fay MacDonald
Finance manager
Rachael oversees the development of innovative projects that support organisational strategy and that are recognised as having the potential to transform Girlguiding Scotland.
Rachael Graham
Head of strategic innovation
Oversees the charity’s internal and external communications and engagement. She also manages girl experience and volunteer experience, ensuring members are supported and have access to unbeatable experiences.
Carolyn Fox Mckay
Head of operations
Oversees the membership development and growth team. Louise manages our grants and development work, the CashBack project and ensures we use membership data to plan our work.
Louise Henderson
Head of membership development and growth
Leads the staff team who work with around 100 volunteers at Scottish level to deliver support and opportunities for members. Denise works closely with the chief commissioner team to celebrate all guiding has to offer in Scotland.