Meet our team

Elaine is a passionate leader dedicated to supporting her team to drive positive change. By taking a strategic lead with the support of our Board of Trustees to help shape local responses and develop our own services, to address the root causes of food poverty and reduce long-term demand for crisis food interventions in our communities.   

Aimee ensures efficiency across all office functions and processes. She leads our front-line service delivery team, fostering a collaborative and well structured work environment. Aimee plays a vital role in building and strengthen relationships with key partners, and plays a leading role in coordinating our Money Advice Service- an essential program dedicated to improving financial wellbeing for people we support.

Lisa is a dedicated Food and Logistics Manager who leads a positive team of volunteers and staff. Focused on efficiency, she manages the daily warehouse operations, ensuring everything runs smoothly. Her primary duties include overseeing the volunteering program, ensuring a positive experience for all. Additionally Lisa maintains strong stock in the right place at the right time to support the evolving needs of the community.

Lucy Leads our fundraising efforts to help us achieve our vision for a poverty-free future by  building strong relationships with donors, organising and supporting impactful fundraising events, and leading on creative campaigns. With a passion for community engagement, Lucy  works to ensure that every contribution makes a meaningful difference in the fight against hunger and poverty in East Lothian.

Grace is a friendly and outgoing member of our team, who is the front-line for the day-to-day running of our crisis service. Grace co-ordinates parcel deliveries and navigates our increasingly busy service to ensure all of our service users receive their parcel on time. She also maintains good working relationships with all referral agencies.

Audrey operates our Money Advice Service, an initiative dedicated to supporting the financial wellbeing and literacy of our service users. Here, Audrey engages closely with colleagues at the Musselburgh Citizens Advice Bureau, ensuring service users are getting the very best support and guidance from the experts. 

Isla duties as Communications and Administrative Assistant includes manging our online spaces, as well as creating and posting content. Isla also preforms administrative tasks to support the general running of the office. Isla is always up for a creative challenge and is excited to boost our online presence, so be sure to follow us on all our channels to keep up to date.

Gavin is an important part of our warehouse team, ensuring a smooth operations of daily activates. He effectively manages food donations, maintains stock levels, and supports volunteers, maintain an efficiently run warehouse. Gavin carries out our weekly health and safety checks, ensuring a safe and compliant environment for everyone. Gavin works to guarantee all key warehouse data is accurately recorded and easily accessible.

Mark was our previous treasurer, so has serval years experience in all things financial regarding the Foodbank. He provides support to both our director and current treasurer in making sure that the day to day finances of the foodbank run as smoothly as possible. This includes liaising with the banks, accountants, payroll provider and pension provider.

Tam is our Foodbank Van Driver, he supports our service by collecting supermarket orders and door-to-door delivering food parcels to our service users. Tam always comes to the office with a smile and ready to help.

Simon is a newcomer to East Lothian, having moved up from Sussex in July 2023. His background in retail finance provided him with experience in organisational design, change management and operational risk management among others, all underpinned by his passion for “problem solving”. He started volunteering as a driver in October of that year and joined the Board in April 2024.

Jackie moved to East Lothian over 30 years ago, working with the Citizens Advice service and later the NHS. After retiring she wanted to get involved in providing direct help and support to people; she started volunteering at the Foodbank in September 2022, in the warehouse and on deliveries, and joined the Board in April 2024.

An East Lothian resident for over 20 years, Hector has taken a keen interest in the foodbank since its inception, predominantly as a result of his wife's earlier involvement in its early years. Hector's background is in finance and investment management and so his focus at the foodbank has been to support the finance function and drive greater financial resilience. Hector joined the Board in November 2023.

Ann is a retired Church of Scotland minister, with a passion for justice especially regarding food insecurity & homelessness. Our Safeguarding Trustee since last year, Ann joined the Board in February 2023.

Dan works in environmental policy for a leading NGO, and lives in Prestonpans with his wife and three children. He joined the Board in February 2023.

Having started volunteering in the warehouse in May 2023, Nigel became a Trustee in August 2024. Motivated by the feeling that it is wrong that people don’t have enough money for essentials, Nigel chose East Lothian Foodbank due to its links with the Trussell Trust whose mission is to end the need for foodbanks.

Hannah has worked within the third sector for over six years and started as the Director of Income Generation for Bethany Christian Trust in 2023 with responsibility for fundraising, marketing, and the charity’s retail presence. Originally from Greater Glasgow, she has lived in Edinburgh since 2011 and joined our Board in January 2025.