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Staff

Keith Wimbles - Senior Development Officer Keith Wimbles - Programme Manager
Keith is one of two programme managers within the SCVO Development and Programmes Directorate. Based in SCVO's Glasgow office, Keith is responsible for a number of projects, broadly falling under the banner of European funded services. Keith's remit within the Direct Grants Programme is to provide strategic management to both SCVO staff and regional contractors and take responsibility for financial accountability, within SCVO and to external funders. Keith is the formal SCVO contact with the Direct Grants Programme Committee.

 

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Nicola Wilson - Senior Administrator
Nicola's main responsibility is to coordinate the activity of the Direct Grants team. In addition, Nicola manages project based financial and activity information and maintains all the programme's administrative systems. 


Ian Mathieson - Development Officer Ian Mathieson - Development Officer (Pre-approval)
Ian is responsible for the promotion and dissemination of the Direct Grants programme, working mainly with local partners, notably CVS, Local Enterprise Companies and Local Authorities. Ian works closely with the regional contractors in Glasgow, Grampian and the South of Scotland to ensure a continuity of service across the operational area. In addition, Ian is the first point of contact providing pre application development advice and ongoing consultation with applicants whilst applications are under appraisal. Ian coordinates the meetings and appraisal activities of the various Local Selection Groups.

Diane Wilson - Development Officer Diane Wilson - Development Officer (Post-approval)
Diane is responsible for ongoing development support to successful applicants once approval letters have been issued. In addition Diane manages the programmes monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
Diane delivers the Managing Your Grant workshops, the vital first step in ensuring that project managers and SCVO can, together ensure financial and activity commitments are met. Where regional contractors deliver these workshops, Diane coordinates the paperwork and information bases. Diane coordinates the collation of expenditure and activity data from approved projects for compilation into quarterly reports on delivery of the programme.

Katie Drake - Administrator

Katie Drake - Administrator
Katie is responsible for dealing with initial inquiries, logging of applications and ensuring the smooth flow of submitted applications from electronic scanning and distribution to timely distribution of decision letters.