Trustees
Our board consists of the Trustee’s and Office Bearers, who are also ordinary members. We meet regularly to make strategic & operation decisions, discuss partnerships, apply for funding and act in the best interests of our members and the shed.
TRUSTEE & ChairPeter McNab
I am a retired fire fighter and have lived in Inverclyde all my life.
I left the Mount School at age 15 to begin working in Scott’s local shipyard where I served my apprenticeship as a shipwright before leaving, after a period of 12.5 years to join the local authority Fire Service with Strathclyde fire and Rescue as a Fire fighter where I served for a period of 27.5 years before retiring.
My current Interests are in Local community Projects such as the shed, and recently as a keen piper playing Scottish traditional music with Kilbarchan Pipe band.
TRUSTEE & Vice Chair Margaret Moyse
Margaret has been nursing for many years and latterly owned a care business with offices throughout Scotland where she developed business experience and enjoyed teaching and training others. She is also a volunteer with the charity Heartstart providing training and has served as a board member with Gateway for 5 years.
Margaret’s hobbies are arts and crafts and the shed offered me a place to meet like minded people and learn new skills.
TRUSTEE & SecretaryJohn Cook
John is a retired prison officer and interested in activities that enable the transfer of skills and improve the self-esteem and confidence of people. He has a number of years of experience of managing groups that developed and delivered learning opportunities to a diverse group of individuals with specific experience of the operation of large scale joinery workshop and machinery.
TRUSTEEJim Turpie
I worked in the printing industry for 33 years where I was foreman in the
letterpress printing department with National Cash Registrar and working on
the newspaper press in the Greenock Telegraph. My last job before retirement
was in the Greenock Sheriff Court where I covered for the manager for
holidays and illness. In my personal life, I am a master of one of the local
masonic lodges, chairing five sub committees over the years. I am involved in
raising monies for children’s charities through “ye corporation o ‘ Squaremen”
where I have been in charge of the Ayr & Dunoon branches and soon to be
responsible for 12 branches from London to Aberdeen, I am a past president
of the Gourock Jolly Beggars Burns Club. What I have learned through my
experiences is the difference between organising people in work and social
settings.
