Meet our Team
These are some of the people that make the VTO’s work possible.
Barbara Oliver
(Operations Manager)
ACII MBA
Barbara joined the organisation in October 2016 firstly as a volunteer tutor then as a member of staff in April 2017. Her background is not in education having worked in the insurance industry for many years as an underwriter and latterly as Operations Director for Kwikfit Insurance Services. Her career took her to Thus Telecommunications as Senior Business Manager for several high profile accounts before taking a break to raise her family.[…]
Gina Lyle
MA(Hons), MPhil
Gina completed a research masters at the University of Glasgow in Scottish Literature in the summer of 2018, and recently joined VTO as a Learning Communities Coordinator.
Gina’s passion for improving accessibility to quality education began while working as a student volunteer with the Lothian Equal Access Programme as she completed her undergraduate degree in Edinburgh. With experience working with children and young people in classrooms, libraries, and theatres, Gina loves helping others build their confidence and literacy skills.
Neelum Anwar
Neelum has been part of VTO since October 2016, firstly as a volunteer tutor and has recently became a Learning Communities Coordinator. Neelum graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2019 with a BSc in applied psychology.
Lewis Kelly
Lewis joined VTO in early January 2019 and his background is in education. Lewis graduated from Glasgow University in 2011 after completing a Bachelors Degree in Primary Education. He worked in Ayrshire before spending four years teaching at an International School in Budapest, Hungary. Lewis continued to work in primary schools in Glasgow upon his return to Scotland in 2016.
Alyson Grandison
Alyson joined the team in April 2019. She has spent the last 18 years supporting complex and vulnerable young people in Glasgow. She has experience of working with young people with a range of barriers, including mental health issues, disengagement from school, lack of personal and social
Emma Gibson
Emma originally joined VTO as a volunteer in March 2019 before becoming a Learning Communities Coordinator with the organisation in August 2019
Douglas Wilson
Douglas joined the VTO as a volunteer in March 2019. He joined the team as an LCC in September 2019. Douglas discovered his love for supporting children working at a summer school in Edinburgh teaching English as a foreign language. He then went on to work for two years at a summer camp in
Vinnie
Librarian, Mascot
Others: Caroline Bain
Karen Frondigoun (Treasurer)- ACCA
Karen is a qualified Youth Worker, and a qualified ACCA Accountant. She is also a 2nd Dan Black Belt in Taekwon-Do and won a Silver medal at the ITF World Taekwon-Do Championships in Pyogyang North Korea in September 2017.
Sarah Haigh
(Secretary)
-BA(Hons), MA English, PIIA
Sarah started volunteering as a tutor with the Volunteer Tutors Organisation in 2015, became a board member in 2016 and then Secretary in 2018. Sarah is also a self employed Senior Audit Manager providing risk and control expertise to a variety of companies.
Lynne Ward – BSc, MSc
Lynne has worked within the regeneration sector for more than 20 years, across the Charitable Sector, the former Glasgow Regeneration Agencies and Local Government. She currently works for Scottish Futures Trust, an arms-length-agency of Scottish Government […]
Andrew J. MacDonald – BEng (Hons), MSc
Lisa Snell – BSc, PgC, CIPD
Lisa joined the Volunteer Tutors Organisation in 2007 as a volunteer tutor, working with pupils on a one-on-one basis. She has also helped with the training of new volunteers for several years. [….]
Martin Hall – BSc (Physics)
Dr Alistair Dorward
Alistair qualified from University in Dundee. He was a consultant physician with an interest in respiratory medicine at Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley for 30 years. He had a wide variety of roles within the Scottish Health Service.
Douglas Johnston
(Chairman & Trustee)
BSc., MSc., MRTPI, Dip H., FIOH
Douglas started the Volunteer Tutors Organisation on leaving the University of Strathclyde in 1976 and was Chair of the VTO for the first nine years of its existence. Prior to retiring from business he was Managing Director of the consultancy firm Arneil Johnston specialising in public and voluntary sector business planning, strategy, ICT Procurement and the comprehensive management of public sector assets. Before establishing the business in 1996 he was a Managing Consultant with the multi-national firm Deloitte & Touche working with a wide range of public sector clients on business planning preparation and assessment, system and process reviews and ICT procurement. Previous to this he worked in local government for 14 years and was Director in Housing in Renfrew from 1986 to 1990 and for Stirling Council from 1982 to 1986.
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