Elsie has over 18 years experience of fundraising for a wide variety of charities with a particular focus on small charities and start up fundraising roles. She loves the creativity and challenge that comes from developing organizational fundraising from the beginning and finds it very rewarding to be part of a team that enables charities to grow and develop providing vital support for our communities.

Her past roles have included developing Public Fundraising from scratch as Regional Fundraising Manager at Camphill Blair Drummond, and leading the first fundraising strategy for Scotland at Crisis as the first ever Fundraising Manager for Scotland.

Elsie is Head of Development at Scottish Mountain Rescue, a representative body for 26 Mountain Rescue Teams. When she started the role seven years ago she created and implemented the first ever fundraising strategy. Elsie supported the trustees from their first tentative steps into the fundraising world, to a successful fundraising programme covering a range of income streams that they have today. This has delivered considerable organizational growth, ultimately providing significantly greater resources and support for the 850 Mountain Rescue volunteers who drop everything at a moment’s notice to save lives.