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Meet the Scotland committee, the people who will take devolved decisions on Big Lottery Fund grants in Scotland.
The committee will make awards for the next three years through a range of BIG programmes. It will also be responsible for strategy, policy, planning and management of programmes in Scotland within an overall strategic and financial framework determined by BIG’s UK Board.
Alison Magee: Committee Chair
Alison Magee was the Convener of Highland Council for the four years to May 2007. She has had nearly 20 years' experience in Scottish local government as an independent councillor, including four years as Convener of Sutherland District Council. She has been Chair of Highland 2007 (the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture), Chair of Inverness City Partnership, and a member of Highland Health Board. She has also been a Board Member of Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise, and previously ran a small business. She lives in central Sutherland.
Tim Allen: Chair of Young Enterprise Scotland
Tim Allen has been on the board of the charity Young Enterprise Scotland since 2003, and was appointed deputy chair in June 2005, and chair in June 2006. YES works with young people from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds – including care and prison - to provide routes into employment in business. Tim was the youngest major in the Army in 1996, served with the UN in Cyprus, was equerry to HRH the Duke of York, and has worked in the Diplomatic Service. Since leaving the Army in 1998 he has pursued a career in banking, where he gained expertise in philanthropic investment, and has latterly moved into property development in Dundee. He lives in Clackmannanshire.
Elizabeth Cameron: Director, Scottish Chambers of Commerce
Elizabeth Cameron has been director of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce since 2004, and before that was director of Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce since 1996. She established the Scottish Youth Investment Fund to help young people into business and is a director of the Princes Scottish Youth Business Trust and has experience of social inclusion and regeneration having in the past chaired the Ferguslie Park Social Regeneration Company. Liz represented the business community on the Scottish Parliament’s Ethic Minority and Labour Market Working Group. She lives in Gourock.
David Green: retiring Chair of Crofters Commission
From his early career as a self-employed crofter running a small tourist industry and working as the driver of a snowplough in the 1980s, David Green rose to be Vice-Convener then Convener of the Highland Council. Currently Convenor of the Cairngorms National Park Authority Board, he has had a strong involvement in rural community life for many years. David Green lives in Ross-shire.
Alistair Grimes: Director, Rocket Science UK Ltd
Alistair Grimes has had a long association with the social economy. From involvement in the 1980s and 1990s with the Wise Group, which provided for unemployed people to gain access to work in carrying out energy saving improvements to council houses and serving as chief executive of Community Enterprise in Strathclyde from 1997 to 2005, as well as serving as Chair of the Scottish Credit Union Partnership, the Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum, and Childcare Works, and well as a committee member of the Scottish Centre for Research into Social Justice and the McFadden Commission on Charity Law Reform. Based in Glasgow.
Helen Forsyth, Chief Executive, Berwickshire Housing Association
Helen Forsyth was chief executive of Edinvar Housing Association from 1998 to 2004 at which point she took up her current post as regeneration director, Scotland, for Places for People. She has also served as a board member of Age Concern Scotland. With extensive experience of tackling disadvantage throughout her career in health, care and housing, and a very strong commitment to achieving real change for poorer communities. She lives in Duns in the Scottish Borders.
Maureen McGinn (Lady Elvidge): Chief Executive, Laidlaw Youth Project
A former senior civil servant running the Laidlaw Youth Project, which promotes partnership working between charities supporting children and vulnerable young people in Scotland, as well as being on the board of Evaluation Support Scotland, Maureen McGinn has a track record of delivering policy solutions for complex social issues as well as experience of working with other funders. She is based in Edinburgh.
Lucy McTernan, Director of Corporate Affairs, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
Lucy McTernan has been a dedicated advocate for communities throughout her career at the centre of the voluntary sector in Scotland. She has been a driving force behind recent developments in charity law and changes in public sector funding practice as well as increasing links between Scotland and the international voluntary sector through bring the CIVICUS Assembly to Glasgow. She is based in Edinburgh.
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