Elena Cinelli

Elena is a craft researcher turned baker with a passion for naturally leavened bread and a growing interest in local food systems. Using her experience securing grants for charities, artists and research projects, she is keen to support the community-building and planet-saving work of Scotland The Bread. Additionally, having managed a bakery in London and subsequently provided consulting services to bakeries in London and Edinburgh, she finds in Scotland The Bread an opportunity to apply this knowledge to support the making of bread as a force for good.

Kate Full, Honorary Treasurer

Kate’s early career was in book-keeping, which provided invaluable business experience in several sectors. She then went on to undertake her professional training with PwC, and qualified as an accountant in 2002. She remained in professional practice for a few years before joining an investment company, where she was responsible for financial due diligence and investment appraisal of potential investee companies. This introduced her to a number of investor-backed, technology focussed companies, one of which she went on to work with for a number of years.

In 2016 Kate decided to set up her own business to support similar businesses in this space, noting the common requirement for more support than is typically offered by external accountants, but not able to justify an in-house appointment. Kate built a small team, and provided outsourced book-keeping and Finance Director-level support to a small number of clients in Scotland and England, before the business was acquired in 2024.

Kate is now enjoying early retirement, making the most of the beautiful countryside and coastline in Fife. She is a keen home baker with a love for bread making. She has invested some of her newfound time into sourdough making, and is delighted to be involved with Scotland The Bread.

Liz Murray

Liz is a long-time environmental and economic justice campaigner, having worked for Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth Scotland and now Global Justice Now.  She was involved in the very early campaigning on genetically modified crops in the 1990s, and more recently on challenging UK aid money going to support agribusiness in Africa rather than to small scale farmers. She was on the board of sustainable food organisation Nourish Scotland, from its inception in 2012 until 2023, acting as chair for five of those years. Liz is a keen fruit and veg grower, having had an allotment for fifteen years.

Alison Ramcharran

Alison moved back to Scotland in 2009, when she changed her life from a senior role in business to combine being full-time mother to two boys with baking bread, beekeeping and maintaining her interest in business by doing part-time roles. She bakes bread from home to sell locally and has a passion for making Real Bread accessible to all.

She is also a member of the Court of Edinburgh University and has a non-Executive role at a small consultancy – Socia – which specialises in private public partnerships. Her previous business experience spans working within major consultancies and latterly managing Microsoft’s top level relations with its UK Government customers.

Iain Waghorn

Iain has over 20 years experience as a director of charitable organisations. He still maintains his position on the board of The Maxwell Centre, one of the most successful and admired charitable projects in Dundee (where Iain lives). Although now retired, Iain started his career in quantity surveying and quickly moved on to project management then building product sales and ultimately energy conservation. In 1993 he set up the first of three business seeing  opportunities both in and out of the construction industry. He has a life-long interest in food and nutrition and has been baking his own bread for years!

Andrew Whitley, Honorary Chairman

Andrew is director of Bread Matters Ltd and a leader of the artisan baking revival, having founded the organic Village Bakery in the 1970s. He is author of the seminal Bread Matters and the best-selling DO Sourdough. He has an MSc in Food Policy from City University London and is credited with ‘changing the way we think about bread’ (BBC Food & Farming Awards).

He co-founded the Real Bread Campaign and is a former vice-chair of the Soil Association.

Email: andrew.whitley@scotlandthebreadwebsite-2i8jlecuna.live-website.com

Malcolm Williams

Malcolm Williams has worked across a wide variety of public policy settings, coming originally through a community-led housing route in the 1980s, and continuing to promote local, place-based social and economic regeneration schemes across the UK and also in Russia. As an independent consultant, he was later an external bid writer and strategist for a wide variety of third and public sector bodies, with notable successes in major culture-led regeneration projects. He is vice-chair of a local CIC promoting local governance where he lives.

In parallel, he has, since the 1970s, been a strong proponent of organic and wholefood businesses, from community joint-purchasing schemes, to working in London’s (then) only sourdough bakery, Natural Rise Foods. He represented small producers on the London Food Commission. Later in life, he founded and still runs Little Eye Sourdough Bakery since 2011, selling and teaching locally on the Wirral. He co-organises a local farmers market.

In Scotland The Bread, he has found the opportunity to bring together his aspirational food and farming practice and vision with in-depth experience of policy, funding and social business development.

Jamie Wills

Jamie is an Executive Support Coordinator at Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) and an AfN Registered Associate Nutritionist. Originally from Fife, he graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Nutrition from the University of Leeds, where he developed the technical foundation for his interest in food security and sustainable community food systems. At CHAS Jamie provides governance and operational support to the senior leadership team and trustees and uses this experience in his role as Honorary Secretary at Scotland the Bread. His love for bread comes from his mother who taught him how to bake.

In memory of Veronica Burke

Andrew’s wife Veronica Burke was a founding director of the Bread for Good Community Benefit Society; her indomitable spirit is and always will be missed following her death in April 2018. She was also a founding director of Bread Matters Ltd, responsible for Baking for Community training, and was a co-founder of Breadshare Bakery CIC. During her previous career in family law she started a family mediation service and developed inter-disciplinary training in dispute resolution, children’s rights and welfare advocacy.

Training and participation programmes such as ‘Sourdough Exchange’ and ‘Soil to Slice’ demonstrate the creative engagement she had with young people and her imaginative take on food sovereignty, embodied in the call to ‘grow your own loaf’. Veronica is, of course, irreplaceable. But her ideas and energetic example will animate Scotland The Bread for good.