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We are a small social enterprise set up as a Community Interest Company. We are limited by guarantee rather than shares. This means that our profits will go towards supporting our aims, rather than lining the pockets of shareholders.
Our Board of Directors make decisions about the direction of the company and how we will work towards our aims. We currently have 6 Directors on our board, all local to Strathearn. |
Meet Our Team
Fran Loots
Founder of Ayecan ChangeFran has a background in community health, psychology and fitness. This has included working as part of a Health Improvement Team. Fran developed the programme from her research into and experience of sustainable weight management.
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Neil Rodan
IT ConsultantNeil provides technical support and advice with respect to the web-based aspects of the programme.
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Sue Harley
Strategy and HRSue Harley brings experience of strategic thinking and planning to Ayecan Change gained through her extremely varied career, a large part of which was spent in HR. Latterly she joined the Gambling Commission as an executive director initially responsible for the regulation of the National Lottery then was their Chief Operating Officer responsible for corporate services (HR, Finance, IT and PMO) and overall delivery of the business plan.
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We have also recently been joined by Heather Robertson, Janice Fraser and Pamela McDowall.
All local to Strathearn and bringing a variety of life experiences that enhance the Board.
We are volunteer board members though occasionally Fran Loots receives some payment as Director.
All local to Strathearn and bringing a variety of life experiences that enhance the Board.
We are volunteer board members though occasionally Fran Loots receives some payment as Director.
Currently we also have support from:
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Lara Boyd - A Registered Nutritional Therapist who is providing nutritional advice for the pilot of the programme materials.
Dr Chris Fenn provided nutritional consultancy input in the early days. Sonam Chand – An undergraduate psychology student at Stirling University. |
In addition we have an Expert Panel. The Expert Panel helps to look at how to incorporate research and learning from other areas into the programme.
The panel includes Dr. Rachel Crockett and Professor Kate Hunt from Stirling University , Frances Bain from Paths for All, Dr. Mario Kolberg from Stirling University as well as Lara Boyd. |
We received some funding from the National Lottery to pilot the Ayecan Change programme and some of the ideas behind it and are now looking to how to build on lessons from that.
First Port provided some start up support. Professor Bill Buchanan OBE Napier University gave time and support in the early stages. Dr Stephan Dombrowski contributed to the expert panel before heading to pastures new. |
