Ian Barcroft
Ian is the Episcopal Rector of St Mary’s (Hamilton); convener of the Scottish Episcopal Church’s Provincial Church in Society Committee and convener of the Glasgow & Galloway Diocese Church in Society Task Group. He is a trustee of Circle Scotland, supporting families and children, and Chair of St Mary’s Family Support Project, located within the church where he is Rector. Also involved in a number of community projects, he is the Chair of South Lanarkshire Volunteer Centre and Hyzone – a detached youth project organised by the churches in Hamilton Town Centre.

Salah Beltagu
Salah is the Convenor of the Muslim Council of Scotland and of the Council for Ethnic Minority Voluntary Organisations, Scotland, and executive member of the Scottish Inter Faith Council SIFC. He is a member of the following: Scottish Government Faith Liaison Group; the Joint Faith Advisory Board in Criminal Justice; the Prison Service Chaplaincy Group; the Public Involvement Group for the Chief Scientific Officer of NHS Scotland. He was a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at the University of Glasgow.

Ephraim Borowski
Ephraim is the Director of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, Vice-Convener of the ethnic minority umbrella, BEMIS, and a member of the Scottish Government’s Faith Liaison Group.  He was formerly head of the Philosophy Department at Glasgow University and compiled the Collins Dictionary of Mathematics.  A former President of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, he was also Treasurer of the Scottish Inter-Faith Council, and a member of the Government’s Race Equality Advisory Forum and the Scottish Committees of both the CRE and the EOC. Ephraim was awarded the MBE in 2009 “for services on behalf of the Jewish Community of Scotland”.

Sandra Carter MBE (Convener)
Sandra is a former Chief Executive of the Voluntary Action Fund and is a trustee of Faith in Older People.

Kerry Dixon 
Kerry is the founder and Executive Director of Signpost International, an organisation focused on community transformation through listening to the voices of people living in poverty. Kerry is a minister in the Episcopal Church and currently serves as a member of the Children’s Panel in Dundee.People.

Ian Galloway (Vice-Convener)
Ian is a former warden of Iona Abbey and a member of the Iona Community. He worked for a number of years with the Glasgow Simon Community and was chair of Glasgow Council for the Single Homeless. He is currently a parish minister (Church of Scotland) in the Gorbals and convener of the Church of Scotland’s Church and Society Council

Martin Johnstone (Company Secretary; Voluntary Chief Executive)
Martin works with the Ministries Council, co-ordinating the work of the Church of Scotland in Scotland’s 58 poorest communities in the country. Prior to this he was a parish minister in Bellshill, where he was instrumental in the development of Orbiston Neighbourhood Centre, a church-based community centre. He serves on a wide range of voluntary and public sector organisations with a simple desire – to ensure that the voices, wisdom and experience of people living in poverty are better heard.

Dorothy MacLean
Dorothy is a member of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow’s Peace & Justice Commission. She is a retired secondary school teacher, having spent much of her working life in Castlemilk, Glasgow.

Lucy MacLeod
Lucy is Depute Director (Students) at The Open University in Scotland and has a long standing interest in widening access to higher education. Previously a Scottish Office civil servant, she worked in the voluntary sector and then at Napier University before joining the OU in 2006. She has been a member of the FiSCAF Funding Awards Committee since its inception and of its predecessor, the Scottish Churches Community Trust

Brett Nicholls (Treasurer)
Brett is a qualified Chartered Accountant who currently runs his own business, specialising in financial support and advice to the voluntary sector. Prior to this he was Depute Chief Executive with Govan Initiative. He is a member of West Glasgow New Church.

Peter Smith
Peter is Chancellor of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow, overseeing the administration of the Archdiocese on a day to day basis. He is parish priest in St Mary’s in the Calton (Glasgow).

Joseph Sullivan
Joseph is parish priest in St Philip’s, Ruchazie and interested in the alienation which affects so many in our communities.