Board of Trustees
Amanda Macdonald – Chairperson
Amanda has recently joined the Go Golspie Development Trust, prior to this she was involved in the review of the local YMCA building. She is also part of the Fountain Road Hall team, and organises the community markets which take place there on the weekends, usually at the end of the month, from March to November . Her interests are reading, soap making and light gardening.
Richard Gale – Treasurer
Claire Gordon – Secretary
Claire is an active member of the Rogart PTA; she has been with Go Golspie Development Trust since its inception and has offered key advice on transport and maintenance issues as her husband operates a local company called Waverley Engineering. She is also a member of a number of local groups.
Marion Sutherland – Trustee
Marion is a proud native of Golspie with a strong sense of community believing, if everyone does something, we can achieve great things for the village. She became a trustee through her involvement with the community buyout of the Fountain Road Hall. For 35+ years, she’s been a keen fundraiser for Highland Hospice. More recently she’s become the Treasurer of Golspie Heritage Society, including The Battle of Littleferry project. Although a natural owl, she joins the Golspie In Bloom early morning watering team in the summer months.
Valerie Mackay – Trustee
Valerie runs her own hairdressing business and is a local employer in the village, she also manages and oversees her own self catering business in the area and has joined the Trustees within the last year.
Jayne Gutteridge – Trustee
Jayne, born in Cardiff, moved to Norfolk in 1984. She worked for the NHS for 20 years as an Administrator and Receptionist in a GP practice, and later as a Secretary/Administrator in the local hospital. Her last place of employment was at a Home Hospice, a charity providing support for approximately 250 patients a year with cancer or terminal illnesses . In 2021 Jayne moved to Golspie and became a Trustee in September 2023. She is a member of the East Sutherland Camera Club, Golspie Heritage Society and the Golspie branch of the Scottish Womens’ Institute.
Penny Macrae
Trustee
Rose Shelley
Trustee