Gill Bogie - Head of Finance and Corporate Services
Gill Bogie has been the finance manager of Edinburgh Cyrenians since June 2004.
She trained as a Chartered Accountant with a medium sized firm in London, and stayed on as a partner within that firm after qualifying, until deciding to relocate to Edinburgh. She took the opportunity of the change in city to transfer into the charity sector.
Cyrenians has doubled in size in the time Gill has been the Finance Manager. Her role in the charity includes development of the finance strategy and development of policies on reserves, investments, pensions etc. She also monitors budget performance and reports to the Trustees.
Gill has a passion for helping people, and when not at Cyrenians she volunteers at a residential centre for men with addictions, and helps ex-homeless people to paint and decorate their new homes.
Rachael Wallace-Lane - Head of Prevention Services
Rachael joined Cyrenians in 2009 and leads our Prevention Services to develop and deliver projects that enable people to avoid housing crisis.
Having spent 16 years in the corporate sector working in marketing, facilities and operational management, Rachael decided to use the skills she had learned to assist in the development of services within the voluntary sector, ensuring quality services are provided to those in need.
Joining Streetwork UK in 2002 Rachael worked as Operations Director successfully implementing their Change Management Programme which included; HR, Monitoring and Evaluation, Performance Management, Healthy Workplace Systems.
As a volunteer, Rachael worked as a Trustee for Zero Tolerance, as part of their HR, Property and Fundraising Teams. Now Rachael volunteers for the Chamber of Commerce in a mentoring capacity for charities looking to improve/develop their operational systems.
Amy Hutton - Head of People and Change Services
Having joined Cyrenians in 2006, Amy has responsibility for the strategic management of the organisation's Drug and Alcohol work, Employability provision and its Residential Communities for young homeless people.
As a member of Cyrenians Leadership Team, Amy has played a lead role in workforce development, quality assurance and capacity building, helping confirm Cyrenians as the provider of high quality services which make a real difference to people's lives. This has included the implementation of an organisational wide practice model, and the development of a monitoring and evaluation framework, both of which have helped make Cyrenians a robust charity which continues to attract support and investment.
Having been struck by the extent of substance use amongst the homeless population, and having studied Addictions at Post Graduate level, Amy has been instrumental in taking forward Cyrenians understanding of and response to problematic substance misuse amongst the people it supports. In addition to developing service delivery, this has involved overseeing a three year capacity building project and research piece focusing on the use of brief interventions in homelessness settings.
Carol-Anne Alcorn - Head of Enterprise
Carol Anne has been employed by Cyrenians for 11 years. Development of social enterprise activities has provided Carol-Anne with the opportunity to be involved in the strategic development of activities within the charity.
Carol-Anne brings to the charity a successful track record in the commercial and social enterprise sector. Prior to joining Cyrenians she spent 13 years managing a large Hotel and Conference Centre in the Derbyshire Dales.
As a member of Cyrenians Leadership Team Carol-Anne is involved in the delivery of Cyrenians 'Working with Business' strategy and has a close link with a wide range of organisations.
Her particular interest is in developing Cyrenians Social Enterprise portfolio which will generate additional income and provide much needed employment and training opportunities for individuals taking steps from being 'the helped to the helper' and become contributing members of society.
