Allison leads the Equality and Human Rights team. She brings over 25 years of experience of the community and voluntary sector, and has worked within a variety of settings, both at a strategic and operational level. She joins Inspiring Scotland after thirteen years with the National Lottery Community Fund, where she managed funding programmes, led on the development of new initiatives, and more recently, led the Knowledge and Learning work. Allison brings a breadth of public policy knowledge, and a strong commitment to learning and influencing.
Allison started her career in international development, working on range of issues in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. She is motivated by power of community-led social action to challenge inequality and to bring about sustainable change.
Allison tries to spend much of her spare time outdoors, and particularly enjoys running and open water swimming. She is also a board member of Cerebral Palsy Scotland.
Inspiring Scotland invites tenders to undertake a locality needs assessment for services responding to violence against women and girls. Glasgow East Women’s Aid in Easterhouse recently ceased operating bringing to an end their domestic abuse service and delivery of community gender-based violence (GBV) services in the area. This leaves a gap in direct frontline service
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We recently brought together organisations to host an event looking at where kinship care currently is in Scotland and where it needs to be to support young people and their wider families to thrive. The kinship care landscape in Scotland “We need to do more for kinship carers and children” Since 2016, Inspiring
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Earlier this month, some of the Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors team, alongside partners hosted a workshop at the Power of Sport and Physical Activity Conference. The conference, held at Easterhouse Community Hub, marked 10 years since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and looked to celebrate the power of sport and physical activity for people to
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