Currently, the charity has HRH The Princess Royal as its patron and is now working not only in Amazonia where it has developed a free health service for over 100,000 people, but also in Tanzania where it hopes to place a third ship on Lake Victoria in 2013. The Trust helps some of the poorest children and communities around the world. These have been supported by numerous Scottish Charitable Trusts including Children in Need and the Rank Foundation.The importance of local, national and international links has had a profound effect on Albert personally and on his ministry and congregation – this led to his establishing the Vine Trust in 1985. As part of the ministry at Bo'ness a not for profit media company has been established, along with a number of community entrepreneurial social outreach programmes. He has appeared on radio and television as a Christian broadcaster and is a regular blogger. He was among the first Christian musicians to perform at the now prestigious Greenbelt Festival when it started in 1973. He is currently a member of the World Mission Future Strategy Group.He has explored the use of the arts in worship and Christian apologetics. The group organised large conferences and events to stimulate creative parish mission strategies. For the past thirty years he has pioneered and developed a ministry which has operated at a local national and international level.At a national level Albert has served the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in various roles from 1983 sitting on the Panel of Worship to being convener of the Kirk’s “Church without Walls” Planning Group from 2004 to 2009. He attended the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, graduating BD and MTh.After a brief assistantship in Cardonald Parish Church Glasgow, Albert was ordained and inducted to Bo’ness St Andrew’s in 1981. Moderator of the General Assembly, Church of ScotlandĪlbert Bogle was born in Glasgow and educated at Woodside Secondary School. Richard is also a co-founder of The Equality Trust. Richard co-wrote The Spirit Level with Kate Pickett which won the 2011 Political Studies Association Publication of the Year Award and the 2010 Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize. He is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, Honorary Professor at UCL and a Visiting Professor at the University of York.
He studied economic history at LSE before training in epidemiology. Richard has played a formative role in international research on the social determinants of health and on the societal effects of income inequality. When not working he enjoys horse racing, football - supporting Scotland and Heart of Midlothian FC - golf and reading.Įmeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham and co-author of ' The Spirit Level' He and his wife Moira married in 1981 and live in Strichen in Aberdeenshire. He won the Aberdeenshire East constituency at the May 5, 2011, election when the SNP won a majority of seats of in the Scottish Parliament and MSPs re-elected him unopposed for a second term as FM on May 18. He became the first ever SNP First Minister of Scotland on May 16, 2007.
He was re-elected as Leader of the SNP in 2004 and elected as MSP for the Gordon constituency in May 2007. He stood down as SNP National Convener in 2000 and left the Scottish Parliament in 2001. He served as leader of the opposition in the Scottish Parliament when he was elected MSP for Banff and Buchan Constituency in 1999. He was first elected as MP for Banff and Buchan in 1987 and was elected as National Convener for the Scottish National Party in 1990. Mr Salmond is now a visiting Professor of Economics at Strathclyde University.
In 1980 he joined the Royal Bank of Scotland where he worked for seven years: first as an Assistant Economist before being appointed Energy Economist in 1982 and, from 1984, Royal Bank Economist. In 1978 he entered the Government Economic Service as an Assistant Economist in the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland. He attended Linlithgow Academy before studying at St Andrews University, where he graduated with a joint honours MA in Economics and History. Speakers for Ethics and policy making in a changing ScotlandEthics and policy making in a changing ScotlandKEYNOTE SPEAKERĪlex Salmond was born in Linlithgow in 1954.
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