The Trust Company is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status, with sportscotland being it’s sole member. The Trust Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of sportscotland. This section lists our directors and provides a brief overview of their background.
Chair: Maureen Campbell
Maureen has been involved in sport for many years as an athlete, coach and team manager. She is a former chair of Scottish Swimming and a board member of British Swimming. Maureen has been vice chair of Commonwealth Games Scotland since 2016 and was reappointed in June 2019 for a second four-year term. She is chief executive of Falkirk Community Trust and was awarded an OBE in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List. Maureen brings to the Board her knowledge and experience of operating in the Scottish sporting pathway to develop outstanding athletes and coaches at all levels.
Maureen Campbell Register of interests (PDF)
Mark Gaffney
Mark is the opportunities & events manager for Scottish Disability Sport (SDS) and has worked in sports development for over 20 years. A coach, official and tutor in multiple sports and programmes, Mark’s first love is tennis and he was tournament director for the highly successful East Lothian Open Tennis Tournament for 10 years.
After graduating from Edinburgh University with a BSc in Sport & Recreation Management, Mark worked in Active Schools in Midlothian for eight years before joining SDS. He has experience in developing sport and facilitating large projects within school, club, regional, national and international settings. His work in making outdoor activities and adventure sport more accessible to all has seen him run two international disability-specific events at sportscotland national training centre Inverclyde.
Mark is a keen cyclist and was the master of ceremonies for Total Warrior – a large-scale extreme physical activity event – from its inception in 2011 until 2016. He is a keen quizzer who defeated the BBC Eggheads team with friends in 2011, a member of the Scottish UK Honours Panel for Sport and a mentor to two young coaches.
Mark Gaffney Register of interests (PDF)
Kirstie Hepburn
Kirstie has handled programme creation, communications strategy, event delivery, and speaker and VIP management for conferences and summits around the world, including as Programme Director for a global conference on sport for social good. Prior to that, she was a magazine editor, then director of strategy for the Middle East for one of the world’s largest PR networks. She now runs her own communications consultancy.
She also works as head of corporate and education activities for Head Talks, a non-profit digital platform for mental health and wellbeing, and is on the Ayrshire fundraising committee for Marie Curie. She is a volunteer for Pets as Therapy, where her dog provides one-on-one care for patients with dementia. She is a very amateur curler and has a passion for National Hunt racing, and is a member of a syndicate that owns several National Hunt racehorses.
Kirstie Hepburn Register of Interests (PDF)
Iain Houston
Iain has over 30 years’ experience in the sports and physical activity sector having worked for five years in a community sports and fitness role in Ferguslie Park, Paisley, before progressing into the Further and Higher Education sector. He has been a lecturer and academic manager in sport and fitness for 25 years and in his current role as associate dean at City of Glasgow College he has overall management of more than 600 sports and physical education learners. He is an advocate for coaching and leadership in sport and has delivered on the degree program at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Iain is a product of school sport opportunity and a lifelong activist who passionately promotes the benefits of sport and taking part at all levels. At Glasgow College he has supported the establishment of many groups and clubs with a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion.
As a participant in sport, Iain holds a broad range of coaching qualifications from the SFA B Licence to a BASI Level 2 ski instructor qualification. Alpine skiing is a particular interest and he has led student groups at home and abroad for many years, recognising the life-changing impact of outdoor education on individuals. He now takes part in climbing, biking and canoeing with the same energy he used to apply to adventure racing and ultra-marathons.
Iain Houston Register of Interests (PDF)
Susie Sandilands
Susan Sandilands is Commissioning Executive for BBC Ideas and an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. She has worked for the BBC since 2002, with previous roles as senior content producer in BBC Scotland’s digital department, and prior to that in social media management, marketing, communications and events. In her current position she is responsible for liaising with a range of external partners and suppliers to ensure creation and delivery of high quality video content for bbc.co.uk and iPlayer. Susan also sits on the sportscotland Board. She is a 2nd Dan black belt in Taekwondo and a former instructor in the sport, who now enjoys interval and weight training. She was also named as BBC Get Inspired’s first ‘Just for Staff’ Unsung Hero for encouraging and supporting her colleagues to incorporate activity into their working day, as she is a firm believer in the power of sport to improve wellbeing.
Susie Sandilands Register of interests (PDF)