Amber believes that everyone deserves the chance to thrive and is passionate about amplifying marginalised voices to address social inequalities.
Amber has a wide range of work experience across the retail and hospitality sector including running her own business. This was a creative collective where she worked as a nail artist and sold the work of local female and non-binary creatives. During this time, she connected with several third sector organisations, that inspired the next phase of her career. During lockdown Amber began studying towards a degree in psychology and criminology at The Open University. As well as working freelance where she offered her organisational and problem-solving skills to support small businesses in their development.
Amber is enthusiastic about the opportunity to drive meaningful societal change and use her skills to support voluntary sector organisations while working at Inspiring Scotland.
We are pleased to share that Equalities Minister, Kaukab Stewart has announced a £2.4 million funding uplift for over 100 organisations supported by our Delivering Equally Safe fund. The funding boost will bring the total Scottish Government investment in Delivering Equally Safe (DES) up to £21.6 million for 2025/26. The announcement was made during Ms.
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The Scottish Government’s recent public consultation on Developing a Universal Definition of ‘Care Experience’ presents a critical opportunity to address the imbalance of support available to those experiencing the ‘care system.’ intandem, managed by Inspiring Scotland is a national mentoring programme for young people in, or at risk of experiencing the ‘care system’, is well
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If Elaine Crichton has a specialist topic, it would be diversifying Scotland’s Boards through recruitment and bespoke training of Trustees. It’s an area she is not just enthusiastic about but also well placed to offer guidance and training, having provided 46 organisations in-depth governance and board development support in the last year. She also walks
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