|
Chair Jennie Purton is a primary school teacher from Lanark, has been involved with Reality as a volunteer running camps and weekends and is also heavily involved with the Christian Summer Sports camps. |
|
Treasurer Dave Roberton is a chartered accountant who works for a large financial services company in Edinburgh. He is an active member of Destiny Church Edinburgh and has a wide experience of working with both commercial organisations and charities ranging from Aberdeen to East Timor taking in India along the way. Outside of financial work, Dave loves spending time with his wife Lyndsey and daughter Aimee as well as fitting in a little bit of hillwalking and guitar playing when he gets a spare minute. |
|
Secretary Doug Christie Scott. Biography coming soon. |
|
Trustee Pamela Docherty is a maths tutor and involved in volunteer work in her local community where she is treasurer for 2 organisations, organises children and family events for the local community, volunteer co-ordinator and has the fun job of reviewing all the polices. She also is in charge of the childrens work at St Ninians Community Church in Stirling. She has volunteered with Reality at several camps both week and weekend. Pamela is married to Kevin where they live in Stirling with an assortment of pets. |
|
Trustee Catriona McKillop has worked with young people for 32 years in various areas ...cubs, brownies, scripture union, Sunday schools, holiday clubs and guides. She founded a youth fellowship, Ragtots (a mother and toddler group in Robroyston) and is a co founder of Reality Adventure Works.
She has also lectured in health, social care and first aid at college of further education. Catriona trained as a nurse, midwife and health visitor seeking to work in areas of disadvantage and has retrained as a primary teacher to work with disadvantaged or those who need additional support. She is currently working in both primary and secondary sectors and finally, is proud to be wife to Keith and mum to Lauren and David |
 |
Trustee Richard Higginbottom is a former museum curator, latterly in Inverness, then a vicar in Derbyshire and a Mission Society rep for Scotland. Being an Englishman married to a Scot for 25 years, he’s now seen sense and accepted the challenge from God to plant a Fresh Expression of church in Tulloch, Perth. Richard will eat anything, including soup! |
|
Trustee Helen Brannigan started volunteering with Reality wilst studying politics and theology at university and very quickly became passionate about their work. She is an active member of Ruchill Kelvinside Parish church and after working for the Greater Maryhill Outreach Project as their Tearoom manager and adult support worker, she is now in teacher training. She also is involved in a voluntary aspect with Prison Fellowship Scotland. She is an avid sailer, kayaker and climber and is happiest in/on/around the water. |
|
Fran Morrison is the part-time Finance and Admin Officer who specialises in fundraising. Her background includes being a lecturer in Business Studies, a theological student, wife of a youth worker, mother of two sons and Secretary of the Year (twice). She does not do hats, dressing up or cooking for events. |
 |
Chris White is our Young Person's Link-Up Worker. He has a significant background and wide experience in Scottish Christian youth work in churches, schools and in other situations, through SU, Frontier Youth Trust as well as in a number of ‘Perthshire’ churches and with different secular agencies and public services (like the police!) He is on the committee for Deep Impact, the annual Scottish Christian Youth work conference held in the New Year at Aviemore. |
|
Chad Olm is the Activities Coordinator. originally from Canada and has become the Jack-of-all-trades at Reality, however his official duties include the general organisation of all week-long and weekend camps, volunteer recruitment and social work liaison. Email: new.info@rawscotland.org.uk |
|
Richard Morrison is the Project Manager. He is quite old, becoming less fit and is not at all happy with heights. His background is in youth work with the YMCA, a Baptist church, SU and a schools based Trust in England. He maintains a positive outlook on life when he sings and consumes vast quantities of soup when given the opportunity. |
 |
HIGHLANDS TEAM Ruth McBean is our highlands project developer and is based in the Black Isle. She has a wealth of experience in sport, leisure and outdoor centre management, having worked in all sectors and taught at Langside College in Glasgow. She loves the outdoors – especially in the winter when she teaches skiing and snowboarding. |
 |
HIGHLANDS TEAM Graeme Hamilton is our Young Person's Link-Up Worker and recently moved into Inverness from Stirling, where he has been based doing a variety of local youth work as well as gaining a Youth work and Theology Diploma at ICC. |
 |
HIGHLANDS TEAM Sylvia Longbottom is our Assistant Young Person's Link-Up Worker. |
 |
HIGHLANDS TEAM Sophie Graham is our Volunteer Admin Assistant . |
Click here to access the Trustee Forum