Anzal Baig
(Board Co-Chair)

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Anzal is a litigation solicitor working in a range of areas including planning, environmental, property and public law.

She is also a creative practitioner working at the intersection of interactive media and social impact. She has worked for numerous public and third sector clients to study and deliver creative projects for impact beyond entertainment.

Anzal is motivated by the power of creativity and storytelling to amplify new perspectives and nurture greater understanding.

Richard Neville
(Board Co-Chair)

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Richard Neville is a journalist with extensive experience in the Scottish media and is currently a director of the media and communications consultancy, Neville Robertson Communications Ltd. He was previously the Head of Newspapers for DC Thomson Media, overseeing The Courier and The Evening Telegraph in Dundee and The Press and Journal and The Evening Express in Aberdeen as well as The Sunday Post. He previously edited both The Courier and The Press and Journal. He was the architect of the digital transformation of DC Thomson’s news brands in 2020/21.

Richard is passionate about helping to drive change in Dundee, and devised and launched the successful Courier Business Awards to help celebrate success across the region.  

Previously Richard was Editor of Business a.m., the critically acclaimed Scottish daily business and political newspaper that closed in 2003. He has also been Deputy Editor of The Scotsman and worked as a reporter for The Daily Record and Edinburgh Evening News and ran the newsdesk of the York Evening Press. 

Richard is also a director of Dundee Heritage Trust, a member of the Fundraising Board at The Maggie’s Centre in Dundee and a member of the University of Dundee School of Business Advisory Board. 

Sorcha Pringle

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Sorcha is a musician, composer and disabled activist based in Dundee. Her work includes delivering accessible music workshops and advocating for equal access to musical and creative experiences for all.  

Recently, Sorcha’s artistic practice has become more intrinsically linked with activism which she expresses through poetry and song. Sorcha is founder of Springboard Creative Arts, which supports and champions young aspiring disabled musicians, and offers a support network for disabled women working in the arts in Scotland. 

Springboard Creative Arts also designs and delivers workshops and materials to facilitate global citizenship and climate justice education through the creative arts. 

Sorcha’s latest project, Transforming the Narrative, commissioned by Touretteshero, is a creative expression of the experiences of disabled people during the pandemic.

You can also find Sorcha drinking good coffee or on walks with her dog.

Dave Close

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Dave has more than 25 years’ experience of youth and community work in England and Scotland and has been Executive Director of Hot Chocolate Trust in Dundee since 2013. 

He is committed to fully human, collaborative approaches that meet the complex challenges of marginalisation and inequity: positive cycles of encounter and collaboration make change happen. 

He is also currently a trustee with A Place in Childhood, and attends St Paul’s Cathedral in Dundee.

Gill Donoghue

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Gill has over 25 years of experience leading and managing a wide range of services in the charity/voluntary sector, with skills and knowledge covering housing and property management, social care, volunteering, and community engagement activities.

She is particularly interested in the impact of design and digital transformation on the way services are delivered, putting people at the heart of what we do and can achieve. Her current role involves both strategic and business planning—looking at ways to innovate, drive improvements and redesign services to deliver the best outcomes for people and their communities. Gill also brings experience of regulatory requirements and good governance in the third sector.

Jason Nelson

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Jason’s art practice over the last 15 years has explored the production of work through socially engaged and collaborative processes. He often works directly within communities exploring notions of culture, co-production, collective ownership and stewardship. Jason is interested in how activity can empower and enable expression and action. His work is often a response to context and exists as a result of direct engagement with people, their environments and their relationship to it. Regardless of the scale of the project the underpinning concepts that drive his work are notions of learning, social structure and ideas of identity, community, ownership and agency. 

Jason has extensive experience at working for and with a wide range of organisations and partners managing and delivering projects of varying scale and complexity in a variety of contexts. Through his work Jason is exploring how to connect local significance with global relevance – how the local, through international partnership can find synergy and impact on the global.