The OSCR Board

OSCR’s Board consists of a Chair, a Deputy Chair and six Board Members. Members of  the Board are appointed by Scottish Ministers following a public appointments process overseen by an assessor on behalf of the Scottish Public Appointments Commissioner.

 

Board members are appointed for four years.  Five members of OSCR's Board were appointed from 1st March 2006 to 28th February 2010;  and three from 9th June 2008 to 8th June 2012. The posts are part time at 1.5 days a month and attract remuneration of £200 a day.  

 

The Board has governance responsibility for strategy and the future direction of OSCR.

 

View the Minutes of OSCR Board Meetings.

 

View the current Register of  Interests for OSCR Board Members.

 

 

 

John Naylor was most recently Chief Executive of the Carnegie UK Trust for 11 years. Previously he was Chief Executive of YMCA England. John Naylor was one of three Scottish board members of the UK Big Lottery Fund and was on the Scottish Charity Law Review Commission which recommended changes to charity law and regulation in 2001. He is a member trustee of Medical Research Scotland and he is chair of the UK Scout Association Development grants board. He is treasurer of the Tomorrow Project, an independent charity researching people’s lives in the next 20 years. He is also a Kirk Elder in Edinburgh. All of these positions are voluntary.

 

Lindsay Montgomery is the Chief Executive of the Scottish Legal Aid Board and was previously the Director of Scottish Natural Heritage. He was a previous Non-Executive Director of OSCR when it was a Scottish Executive Agency and he is also the chairman of a small cancer charity.

 

Fiona Ballantyne is Managing Director of Ballantyne Mackay Consultants and a Director of 4-consulting Ltd. She has served as Vice-Chair on the BBC Broadcasting Council for Scotland, Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Queen Margaret University, and the board of Edinburgh Healthcare Trust. She is a director of Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop Ltd, Chair of the Board of Museums Galleries Scotland (formerly the Scottish Museums Council) and was also Chair of the Edinburgh Branch of the Institute of Directors and a member of the IOD Scotland Committee. She is also a member of OFCOM's Consumer Panel.

 

Martin Crewe is Director of Barnado’s Scotland and is a Quality Scotland Excellence Assessor. He is also a trustee of Evaluation Support Scotland and was previously a trustee for Partners in Advocacy and Bfriends.

 

Annie Gunner is Director of Community Care Providers Scotland and a Board member of Phoenix House and the European Association of Service Providers for Persons with a Disability (EASPPD).

 

David Hughes Hallett is a Chartered Surveyor and Consultant, principally working in rural land, heritage and the voluntary sector. He has acted as an adviser to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the last seven years, been Chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Scotland and Convenor of the Association of Chief Officers of Scottish Voluntary Organisations. He has previously been a Board member of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, and is currently a member of the North East Panel of Waterwatch Scotland, a Local Adviser for Scottish Natural Heritage (Forth and Borders Area) and a Director of Fife Environment Trust. He is also Deputy Convener of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority.

 

Iris MacMillan is a solicitor specialising in Charity Law and is a member of the Law Society working party on Charity Law. She is involved in a number of charities including being a Board member for Learning Teaching Scotland.

 

Oscar Mendoza is a Social Scientist with post graduate qualifications in Social Research Methods who works as Assistant Director of Operations for the Big Lottery Fund. Previously he managed the overseas projects section of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF), and has been a Board member of VETAID UK and Management Committee member of the Scottish Churches World Exchange. He has worked extensively with charities focused on human rights in Chile and Central America, acting as General Council member for the Chile Committee for Human Rights and treasurer for Central America Network Scotland and Chile Democratico (Scotland).