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Chairman Graeme Lipsett has worked with young people for around 16 years. He has gained experience from working with young people from different socio-economic backgrounds, initially with Church of Scotland “Summer Mission” teams - now known as “Impact” teams - initially as a team member becoming a Team Leader in 1993. Graeme’s home church is Maxwell Mearns Castle Church of Scotland, which is located in the south side of Glasgow, where he is volunteer Church Administrator, As a trained counsellor, Graeme is part of the pupil mentoring scheme run by Careers Scotland in their schools programme for East Renfrewshire. Graeme also has an administrative role with Christian in Sport (CIS) mainly at Sports Plus Camp in Scotland each summer and he has worked for a number of years at the Spring Harvest Easter Event at Skegness as Deputy Chief Steward.
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Secretary Pat Gibson has been a long-time Reality volunteer, attending multiple week-long and weekend camps. She is a retailer based in Ayr, who enjoys golf and painting in France (when time permits). She is feeling happy now that her family is now collecting back in Scotland. |
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Trustee Phil Arbon is coordinator of the Scottish Network of Churches, itinerant Bible teacher and a committee member of the Paisley and District Evangelical Alliance. He has been a church leader and engineer, he is married with 2 children who are presently in England. In his spare time he enjoys hill walking and painting.
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Trustee Linda Nicolson is from Glasgow and has been a social worker, a theological student and is now working with CrossReach with disadvantaged youth in an educational setting. She has been volunteering for Reality since 1999 and has recently significantly assisited in our R&D project. In her spare time, she is teaching her pet (bird) linguistics and communication skills.
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Trustee Betty Shiers lives in Kirkintilloch and has been a past Office Administrator and Treasurer of Realty. She is an active member of Kirkintilloch Baptist Church and the Lydia Fellowship. She enjoys making bespoke greeting cards and her greatest delight is Martha, her first grand-daughter.
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Trustee Dave Roberton came from Arbroath and is a Finance Manager of a Credit Charity based in Edinburgh. He has a background of volunteering overseas and with summer mission teams, taking part in music and drama teams and now at Reality camps with his wife Lyndsey. Dave is taking over as Reality Treasurer from 1st Nov, 2006.
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Trustee Sarah Anderson is a Social Worker based in Edinburgh dealing with Adoption and Fostering. She is actively involved with St Mungo's Church in Balerno and is also a marathon runner. Sarah has been involved with Reality camps since 2001.
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Trustee Jennie Mackenzie is a primary school teacher from Lanark, has been involved with Reality as a volunteer running camps and weekends and is also heavily involved with the Christian Summer Sports camps.
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Fran Morrison is the part-time Finance and Admin Officer who specialises in fundraising. Her background includes being a lecturer in Business Studies, a theological student, wife of a youth worker, mother of two sons and Secretary of the Year (twice). She does not do hats, dressing up or cooking for events.
Email: fran.morrison@rawscotland.org.uk
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Chad Olm is the Activities Coordinator. He is an import direct from Canada and has become the Jack-of-all-trades at Reality, however his official duties include the general organisation of all week-long and weekend camps as well as website design and maintenance (well suited to his other professional skills as a photographer and graphic designer).
Email:new.info@rawscotland.org.uk
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Richard Morrison is the Project Manager. He is quite old, becoming less fit and is not at all happy with heights. His background is in youth work with the YMCA, a Baptist church, SU and a schools based Trust in England. He maintains a positive outlook on life when he sings and consumes vast quantities of soup when given the opportunity.
Email: richard.morrison@rawscotland.org.uk
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Lorna Barton is the Young Person's Link-Up Worker.
She has worked with Residential Childcare Worker at Geilsland School (part of CrossReach, previously called the Board of Social Responsibility of the Church of Scotland) and her training and qualifications provide a wealth of great experience of working with young people.
She lives with her 2 cats on the south side of Glasgow and her million strong DVD collection (so we are informed!)
Email: lorna.barton@rawscotland.org.uk
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