Leanne is passionate about the power of entrepreneurial thought and action to drive social change.
After working in London as part of Sky TV’s marketing graduate programme, Leanne studied entrepreneurship in Boston with the Saltire Foundation before returning to Scotland. She joined a digital tech start-up before taking up a role with Entrepreneurial Scotland. Leanne joined Inspiring Scotland in 2016 to use her experience and knowledge of ambitious and innovative enterprise ideas to achieve social goals.
A champion of investing in the earliest years of life to enable the greatest returns, Leanne is the Fund Manager of the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Fund.
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
Read MoreWe 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
Read MoreEarlier 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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