Mairi leads the Thrive Outdoors programme and has long been a passionate advocate for children, play and the natural environment.
With almost 20years experience, Mairi brings a wealth of knowledge in early years, childcare, children’s rights, workforce development and quality improvement. Prior to joining Inspiring Scotland’s Thrive Outdoor team in 2017, Mairi was the interim Chief Executive at outdoor learning social enterprise Stramash and spent eleven years with Fife Council as Early Years Partnership Manager.
Mairi is a qualified ELC practitioner, has an MA in Social Policy a professional award in Leadership & Management and trained as an Improvement Advisor with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement in 2015. In 2023 Mairi gained an MSc Education (Early Childhood Practice & Froebel).
(Tuesday 26th August) the First Minister and Minister for Higher and Further Education Graeme Dey, joined Inspiring Scotland to launch the mid-point impact report of its 10-year youth employment fund. The fund, Our Future Now (OFN), delivered by charity Inspiring Scotland is focused on supporting the bedrock of circa 40,000 young people in Scotland that
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Minister for Equalities Kaukab Stewart and COSLA ‘s Community Wellbeing Spokesperson Councillor Maureen Chalmers launched the latest Equally Safe Delivery Plan yesterday (Tuesday 13 August 2024) at an event hosted by Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis Centre. Inspiring Scotland manages the Delivering Equally Safe fund on behalf of the Scottish Government, which supports third sector
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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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