• Anne BoydScottish Community Foundation Chair

Anne has many years experience in the voluntary sector including working as Director of the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service for Scotland. She is also a trustee of other national charities including: the Atlantic Salmon Trust, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, and the Winston Churchill Memorial Fund.

Having been a transatlantic fellow in the US, Anne is an enthusiastic promoter of the Community Foundation model of philanthropy. Anne was also once Vice Chairman of the Community Foundation Network, the umbrella body for the movement in the UK.

She also has a passion for opera, entertaining and reading.

• Hamish BuchanFinance & Administration Committee Chair

Hamish has over 40 years of experience in working in investments, having held senior positions in Wood Mackenzie & Co. and NatWest Securities. He is currently chairman of JPMorgan American and Personal Assets Trust. He's also a director of Aberforth Smaller Companies, Standard Life European Private Equity, the Scottish Investment Trust and Templeton Emerging Markets.

Hamish is a trustee of several charities and is interested in developing financial education services for young people in Scotland. He has been a Scottish Community Foundation trustee since 2002.

He has been a trustee of the Stewart Ivory Foundation, a governor of Dollar Academy, and a director of the Scottish Council for Independent Schools. Hamish is currently a board member of the Community Foundation Network, the umbrella body for the movement in the UK.

He is married with four stepchildren and keeps busy with his nine grandchildren! His other interests are golf, curling, travel and antiques.

• Helen Mackie

Helen is a specialist in all aspects of communication and personal development.

Helen is self-employed, providing support and advice to businesses throughout the Highlands and Islands. Her special interest is community development, and she has previously been the chair of the Highland and Islands Enterprise funded Women @ Work project, and a member of Highland Children's Panel. She is also an affiliate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Based in Inverness, she is married to Ken, and has two adult sons. Her leisure interests revolve round the theatre, classical music, dance and hill walking.

• Bobby Anderson

Over the past 20 years, Robert has developed the World Exchange, an international volunteer and exchange programme of the Scottish churches and international agencies, partnering with organisations across North and central Africa, South and Central America and Asia.

He is also co-founder of St Colm’s International House in Edinburgh, delivering English language and training courses for community leaders from partner churches and agencies. St Colm’s is also a supportive residence for international students and a meeting place for Scottish civil society.
He squeezes these commitments in to his schedule of father of three, and official duties as a minister of the Church of Scotland.

• Beth Edberg

Beth is an educational consultant who started her career as an art teacher over 20 years ago, going on to create some of the first commercial online ‘edutainment’ products.

Since arriving in Scotland from the US in 1999, Beth has worked with companies, schools and individuals to help them develop a more positive, confident mind-set. Beth is also the chair of the Women's Fund for Scotland Advisory Group.

Beth holds dual British and US citizenship. She enjoys travelling around Scotland, especially the western isles, but particularly enjoys Edinburgh during all the summer festivals.

• Colin Liddell

Colin is the third generation in his family solicitors' firm, J. & H. Mitchell W.S. of Pitlochry. He is a graduate of Oxford and Edinburgh Universities, and an accredited specialist in Charity Law. 

Author of Pitlochry – A History, Colin is also chairman of Pitlochry Area Initiative, and trustee of a number of other charities, including Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

In his spare time, Colin enjoys skiing, sailing and walking the hills. And his voice can be heard commentating every year at Pitlochry Highland Games.

• Lady Emily StairDevelopment Committee

Emily is a co-founder of the Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust. Established in 2002 to recognise individuals who make exceptional contributions to charity, it was described by the now Prime Minister, Gordon Brown MP, as the 'Nobel Prize of the Charity Sector'.

Emily first become involved with philanthropy and the voluntary sector in 1997, working with Pilotlight, and the Institute of Philanthropy. Previously she worked as head of marketing and communications for the Science Museum, and with Saatchi & Saatchi.

• Bob BensonGrants Committee Chair

Bob is an executive director whose career has focused on enabling societal change for marginalised communities and individuals. He has a sustained track record leading on the equality and human rights of disabled, older people and BME communities in the public and voluntary sector. He’s had considerable campaigning, lobbying and networking success.

Most recently, Bob was responsible for leading on the transformation of community services within Scope to create a more relevant provision of support for profoundly disabled adults and children based on principals of independent living.

• Gillian Donald

Gillian is a partner in Scott-Moncrieff Chartered Accountants and heads up its charity team specialising in a wide range of governance and business support for charities. She is convener of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland Charities Committee and lectures in charity accounts and audit, and is a non-executive director of several Scottish charities. She was a member of the Audit Practices Board Working Party that reviewed the Practice Note for Charities.

• Ian McAteerDevelopment Committee

Ian is the Group Chairman of The Union, one of the UK’s leading regional agencies. A former Barrister, Ian was previously a Director of Saatchi & Saatchi London and Faulds Advertising in Edinburgh before setting up The Union in 1996 with three partners. Today The Union is Scotland’s leading creative agency delivering 360 degree communications for a wide range of clients. In 2007, The Union was named IPA Scottish Effectiveness Agency of the Year, and in 2008 it was named Marketing Services Company of the Year by the Marketing Society, and Agency of the Year at the Scottish Advertising Awards.

Ian sits on the Scottish IPA’s Committee, and is a Fellow of both the IPA and the Marketing Society. Ian is a Trustee of Project Scotland, a Governor of Cargilfield Prep School and is currently serving a two year term as Chairman of the international agency network, WorldwidePartners, Inc.

• Alan HardenTrustee Emeritus

Alan is a former trustee. He is now an ambassador for the Scottish Community Foundation, and will promote us to Diaspora Scots living in Asia and the Pacific.

Alan is chief executive of ING Investment Management in Asia/Pacific. He's the former chief executive of the Alliance Trust. He was previously with Citigroup Asset Management in Japan, where he was managing director and head of the Asia Pacific Region between 2000 and 2003. He has a wealth of experience with companies like Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC.

Alan holds dual British and US nationality. He is married with one son and lists his leisure interests as golf, skiing, triathlon and other endurance sports as well as collecting antiquarian golf books.