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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.
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
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.