"Meeting needs, creating opportunities and preparing young people for the future"
Board of Advisors
Elaine Allan
We are delighted that Elaine has joined our Board of Advisors. Elaine is going to continue the work that her late husband Jim started. Elaine is a retired primary school teacher whose experience and knowledge will be invaluable to Bachlaw.
Dr. Martin Barker
Martin Barker has been working in education for over 30 years. His teaching experience ranges from Primary to Higher Education, and incorporates eight years as a teacher and housemaster in independent secondary schools. Martin’s work during this time included careers guidance, Head of Special Educational Needs, and counselling (in which he is qualified). Martin has also worked for a further seven years with young people with social emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD) both in mainstream schools and in a special residential school for pupils with SEBD, where he was a senior teacher.
Currently, Martin Barker is teaching undergraduates and postgraduates at university. He has substantial experience as an award-winning teacher, researcher and advisor in universities in the UK and USA, and has published several books and numerous academic papers.
Martin describes himself as a ‘problem solver’ and ‘visualiser’, and is pleased to offer his skills and experience to the Bachlaw Advisory Board. He has a strong belief in the capacity of struggling young people to turn their lives around, and in the staff who can help them to achieve this. “We all have hidden strengths!”
John Brewer
Retired three years ago with a wealth of experience managing residential schools and childrens services for local authorities.
Leanne Carter
Leanne Carter has lived in the Banffshire area her entire life. She has worked for local, regional and national media and also has experience of operating within the public relations sector. Leanne is currently working with a development trust organisation.
Roz Caudwell
Roz Caudwell works for Enterprise North East Trust, as part of the team that delivers Business Gateway Advisory Support in the North Aberdeenshire area of Grampian. Roz is a Business Advisor who provides business support to pre-start and new businesses including business planning, financial analysis, marketing, market research, strategic development and employment legislation.
Her background includes Hospitality and catering at both Craigendarroch Hotel and Country Club and The Fife Arms Hotel, Turriff. Roz also has a family agricultural background and worked in the Clydesdale Bank for two Years.
Roz has an HND in Leisure and Recreation Management, CIPD certificate in Personnel, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management and has recently completed her MSC in Agri-Business Management.
Roz has recently been awarded the Entrepreneurial Supporter of the year in the 2010 Grampian Awards for Business Enterprise.
David Dunn
Rector
Helen James
Helen James is Head Teacher of an Aberdeenshire rural school. In her fifteen years of teaching she has worked in a broad range of sectors including five years working in a residential school for children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. Helen strongly believes in the rights of every child to the very best in education and care.
Margaret Nash
Solicitor
Alisdair Ramsay
Alex Watt
Accountant
Prof. Bill Whyte
