Meet our Social Investment Committee

Stewart Carruth (Chair)

Stewart is a former Chief Executive and Director of Corporate Governance in local government and is now an Operations Director for a start-up company. He also has experience as a Board Member of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI), Chair of Finance Committee and former Board member of Social Investment Scotland, as well as being a current Non-Executive Director.

James Hilder

James is passionate about the power of communities to achieve more for themselves and to expand social enterprise as the key to social inclusion. He now provides social enterprise consultancy bringing 25 years of third sector experience to clients.

Jen Gordon

Jen is a Programme Manager at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Prior to joining the FCDO, Jen worked at Comic Relief where she was instrumental in establishing their first social investment function, as well as managing key strategic partnerships with third sector and corporate organisations.

Isla McCulloch

Isla is Programme Manager for Community Shares Standards at Co-operatives UK.  She also supports the Community Shares Booster Programme, an innovative programme of match investment in community share offers. Previously she’s worked for Community Shares Scotland, the Development Trusts Association Scotland and Social Investment Scotland. She is also the Chair of Dig-In Bruntsfield and has recently joined the board of Adventure Oban.

Cameron Kinnaird 

Coming soon.