"They will help us to implement our UK-wide strategy here in Scotland"
The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF), the largest funder of community activity in the UK, has announce the new members joining its Scotland Committee.
Coming from local government, academia and the third sector, the new committee members bring years of experience and leadership working with and alongside Scotland’s communities supporting those experiencing poverty, disadvantage and discrimination.
They are Bruce Adamson, Scotland’s former children and young people’s commissioner and an internationally recognised expert in human rights and work with children and young people.
David Dorward MBE, a former chief executive of Dundee City Council and a key charity leader in the city with a strong track record in anti-poverty and community work.
Erin Williams, a senior academic at the University of Edinburgh and co-founder and director of research and communication at Feed, an independent infant feeding charity.
And Melodie Crumlin, founding CEO of PEEK, a charity supporting children, young people and families in Glasgow and deputy CEO at MCR Pathways.
Across the UK, NLCF has also appointed one young person onto each of its funding committees as youth voice representatives.
Holly Hendrie will bring her insights, skills and experience to the Scotland Committee.
Welcoming their appointments, the National Lottery Community Fund’s Scotland chair, Kate Still, said: “I am delighted to welcome new colleagues to our Scotland Committee who will bring passion for making communities across Scotland healthier, stronger and more inclusive to our decision making and strategic thinking.
“Drawing on their extensive experience and expertise of working in and alongside the community and voluntary sector, they will help us to implement our UK-wide strategy here in Scotland and decide how National Lottery funding should be awarded to create impact for communities across the country.
“I would also like to extend my thanks and appreciation to our outgoing committee members - Lindsay Graham, Aaliya Seyal, Martin Johnstone and Janet Miles - who over the years have generously shared their time and expertise to help us deliver for communities across Scotland.”
The new members join Kate Still, and existing committee members Jackie Brock and Naila Wood, to make up the eight strong Scotland committee responsible for setting Scotland’s strategic direction and policy framework, and ensuring that equity, diversity and inclusion lie at the heart of its decision-making.
National Lottery players raise over £30 million a week for good causes across the UK. Thanks to them, last year (2023/24) The National Lottery Community Fund awarded over half a billion pounds (£686.3m) of life-changing funding to communities across the UK, supporting over 13,700 projects to turn their great ideas into reality.
In the last five years over £339m has been distributed to 9,822 groups across Scotland.
To find out more visit www.TNLCommunityFund.org.uk
