ST ANDREW'S CHILDREN'S SOCIETY - Key Persons


Anne Hampton

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
Anne is a retired social work manager and has worked in both local authority and the voluntary sectors, specialising in fostering and adoption placements. St Andrew's Children's Society is an agency with which she has worked closely over many years and she has held different roles in the organisation in that time. She is a Panel member and the Deputy Agency Decision Maker, and in the past she has also been a Panel Chair. Since her retiral she has been able to commit additional time to the agency, and has been a Trustee since 2008. Leisure interests are cycling - fair weather preferably, and a hobby of late is fly fishing - she recently caught a rainbow trout weighing a whopping 2Ib 5ozs.

Carolyn Smith

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Cathryn Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Practitioner

Celia Borland

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
Celia qualified as a social worker in 1976 and was involved in adoption and family placement as a social worker placing children and family placement worker recruiting and supporting adopters and foster carers in Edinburgh, Lothians and Sunderland. She retired in June 2019 as Service Manager, Children's Services, East Lothian Council after 22 years. She was a senior manager in Children's Services in various roles, responsible for the long-term care and support of children including management of the Adoption and Fostering services. She has learned much from the adoptive families and foster carers determined to make a difference to the children they love and care for and from the care experienced people she has met throughout her career. Her connection with St Andrew's Children's Society arose through East Lothian's longstanding partnership with the agency. She became a St Andrew's Children's Society panel member in 2009. The values of St Andrews's Children's Society are closely aligned to her own as is the positive culture and creative leadership within the agency. She became a Trustee of St Andrew's Children's Society in October 2019 and wishes to contribute to the future development of the agency in this role. Early in her career, inspired by her spaniel Bruce, a colleague and Celia wrote illustrated letters from Bruce to children telling his life story-enabling children awaiting permanent placement to talk about their own story. Bruce's Story was later published as a children's workbook, by Children's Society, 1986. In contrast today there are many helpful publications and materials available.

Charlie Egan

Job Titles:
  • Service Manager

Claire McMahon

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Debbie McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Service Manager ( Acting )

Emma Quinn

Job Titles:
  • Social Worker

Eugenia Dorosz

Job Titles:
  • Reception / Administrative Assistant

Gill McHaffie

Job Titles:
  • Senior Practitioner

Innes Ledingham

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
Innes has over 20 years' management consulting and programme delivery experience, leading large-scale change, and business performance improvement programmes in the financial services sector. Recently he worked with Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA), leading one of their business transformation programmes, and prior to SLA he was a director at PwC in their banking and capital markets practice and led consulting for financial services in Scotland. He became a Trustee of St Andrew's Children's Society in 2017, having been asked if he would be able to bring views and support to the board of trustees in the areas of business strategy, business performance and commercial awareness. He is married with three children and enjoys time with his family, travel, sport of any kind, in particular golf and rugby at Boroughmuir Rugby Youth Club, where he coaches the under 16s.

Iona Hughes

Job Titles:
  • Senior Practitioner

Julie Arbuckle

Job Titles:
  • Senior Practitioner

Katie Delap

Job Titles:
  • Senior Practitioner

Kirsty Fergusson - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer
  • Trustee With St Andrew's Children 's Society
Kirsty has been a Trustee with St Andrew's Children's Society since 2006 and subsequently Treasurer from 2011. After completing her studies in Accountancy & Finance at Heriot Watt University, Kirsty spent five years working for KPMG (Audit) in Luxembourg. Over the past twenty plus years she has worked across various sectors, including financial services, public sector and currently manufacturing, in addition to partaking in some voluntary work. Her free time is spent mainly with her ten year old twins, Alexander and Emma and cocker spaniel Daisy. Hobbies include reading, swimming and jigsaws.

Lorna MacFarlane

Job Titles:
  • Senior Practitioner

Rita Grant

Job Titles:
  • Adoption Support Manager

Robert Swift - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Social Worker
  • Trustee
Robert trained as a social worker in the 1970s. After qualifying he worked with children and families in Cumbria before a period of voluntary service overseas in Malaysia. He later worked in Edinburgh and the Lothians before moving to South Lanarkshire in 2011 where he was Head of Children and Justice services and Chief Social Work Officer. Robert has always had a keen interest in fostering and adoption, both as a practitioner and a manager. He has chaired fostering and adoption panels and has been agency decision maker for various organisations. He chaired the Social Work Scotland sub group on fostering and adoption for many years. Though now retired Robert continues to be involved in fostering and adoption matters with a number of voluntary organisations. Robert is an adoptive parent and is the author of Adopting a Child in Scotland, published by BAAF. He is the Agency Decision Maker within St Andrew's Children's Society. Since retiring Robert has been learning to play the bagpipes and trying to unicycle, though not at the same time.

Roddy John MacLeod

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Board of St Andrew's Children 's Society As a Trustee
Roddy John MacLeod joined the Board of St Andrew's Children's Society as a Trustee in 2011. He and his wife, Lorna, adopted their son, Robert, through the Society back in 1997 and he was so grateful to St Andrew's Children's Society for how they had handled the adoption, that he felt he should give something back. A Gaelic-speaking native of the Isle of Skye, he came to Edinburgh in 1971 to study law and then stayed on to become, successively, a solicitor, advocate, sheriff and, in October 2014, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court and President of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland (under the judicial title Lord Minginish). However, that doesn't tell the whole story, in that he broke off from his legal career briefly in the late 1970s to work for the BBC for a couple of years and has been an occasional Gaelic broadcaster over the years since then. Having practised as a solicitor in Leith, being a long-standing (should that be long-suffering?) season ticket holder at Easter Road and having stood as a candidate for Edinburgh East (Liberal-SDP Alliance) in the 1983 General Election, he has always had an affinity with the east side of the city and particularly with Leith, where, of course, St Andrew's Children's Society is based.

Sandra Williams

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Shiona Freeman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Practitioner

Stephen Small - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO

Tara Macgregor - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing

Tim Rogerson

Job Titles:
  • Social Worker

Tracey Turnbull

Job Titles:
  • Service Manager

Velga McDougall

Job Titles:
  • Office Administrator