Two board members coming to the end of their four year term have expressed interest in continuing for a further 2 years in accordance with article 6.6.2.2 of the Articles of Association:
Three Directors will be stepping down at the 2024 AGM:
The candidates listed below have been nominated by the Board for election as volunteer Directors of Mountaineering Scotland to fill these positions:
I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) gaining my membership over ten years ago. I currently hold a senior leadership role in finance in the public sector.
I am passionate about ensuring public money is spent to maximise value and drive improvement. Ihave always been passionate about the public sector, previously leading internal and external audits of Local Authorities, Universities and NHS Boards.
I am a keen hill walker having bagged over 160 Munros. I have competed 8 4000m+ peaks in the Alps as well as the Tour of Mont Blanc and Alta Via 1. I can be found after work at the climbing wall or walking my dog Reyna around the local hills.
My campervan gives me a great freedom to explore the Highlands as well as further afield. I have been a member of Mountaineering Scotland for a number of years and I love encouraging people to experience the outdoors.
I was born in North West England and had no particular route into the hills until I attended a residential geography field trip in an old barn owned by my local council at the head of Longsleddale in the Lake District. That is when I started to look up to the hills wondering what it was like up there and have spent much of the rest of my adult life trying to find out! This was reinforced by an early job as a general assistant with what was Kindrogan Field Centre in Perthshire where I walked into the library and found a copy of Adam Watson and Nethersole-Thompson's Cairngorms Their Natural History and Scenery. Still my favourite book (and favourite hill range) to this day.
I have compleated the Munros but have climbed many hills besides in the UK, the Bavarian Alps, East Africa and have trekked in the Himalaya. More recently I have taken to outdoor swimming, usually in mountain lochs, tarns and rivers. I have attended a number of courses at Glenmore Lodge including Avalanche Awareness training in the very first year the course was run.
I am a chartered town planner but my first degree was in countryside management. I have worked for three UK National Parks including the first ten years with the Cairngorms National Park dealing with a range of proposals including remote path works and bothy upgrades. I also dealt with the wind farm consultations around the boundary of the Park. I have also worked for Friends of the Lake District where I covered recreation and access, managed several of their properties and drafted their response to the Glover Review of England's National Parks. I have also worked for Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere as Lead Land Use and Biodiversity Officer. My current working role is as a Senior Conservation Planner (largely marine) with the RSPB.
I have been a member of Mountaineering Scotland for over 20 years. While my range of experience appears quite random I believe it is a combination that will benefit Mountaineering Scotland at a time when so much about our mountain environment appears to be changing.
I have a deep passion for the outdoors, engaging in activities such as hill walking, climbing, scrambling, winter climbing, wild camping, and bike-packing. Living in Glasgow, I have been a dedicated member of Mountaineering Scotland for the past seven years and have served on the committee of my local club.
As a club member, I am continually inspired by the dedication and expertise of our fellow members. The wealth of knowledge within our clubs is invaluable to the development of climbing in Scotland, and it is something we should take great pride in. Clubs provide an excellent avenue for people to get involved in outdoor activities. Through events with my own club, I have had incredible adventures and wish for others to have similar opportunities to explore the hills.
My focus is on ensuring that Mountaineering Scotland remains relevant to our club members, making sure they recognise the efforts being made on their behalf to support the environments they love to explore. Effective communication with the clubs is crucial, and I am keen to explore the best ways to ensure all members feel part of the wider organisation, especially university clubs and smaller groups affiliated with Mountaineering Scotland.
Having recently completed climbing all the Munros, I am now eager to dedicate my time to a new challenge as the Director for Clubs for Mountaineering Scotland.
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