Who are the LCT Trustees
Louise Robb
LCT Chair. Click here to find our more about Louise. Click here to email our Chair.
Day Job - Current Managing Partner of LR Associates LLP
Louise has thirty-two years’ work experience and nineteen working globally with a large range of blue chip and NGO clients as an Organisational Development consultant, facilitator, team and individual coach and mediator. After a thirteen-year career in business as an accountant and finance director of two legal firms and Rolls Royce in Scotland, she began studying psychology. In 2017 she completed her Masters in Integrative Coaching Psychology. With a United Nations International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance, Louise has worked with the UN and its sister agencies. Louise moved to Ceres, Fife in 1992 with her then young son. She has lived in Lundin Links and Lower Largo since 2007. Her sense of adventure, connection to our environment and forty-odd-year passion for kayaking have inspired solo kayak journeys around the Scottish isles; also teaching sailing at Largo Bay Sailing Club and a member of our Largo and Lundie cycling club. Louise has been the Chair of the LCT since its inception in September 2017 and was a member of the Children’s Hearing Service for seven years prior to that. Both witnessing and being part of a growing community network is a challenge and a privilege.
Stan Green
LCT Vice Chair. Click here to find our more about Stan. Click here to email our Vice Chair.
Managing Director of Growforth Ltd (Est1990) a horticultural nursery. I also own The Plant Market at Dalgety Bay and The Green Room Florist. From 2013 – 2015 I was President of the UK Horticultural Trades Association and Chairman of the UK Board. I am pleased to have initiated and help lead the project to create Scotland’s National Garden - “The Calyx” (as yet unrealised) alongside Sir Andrew Cubie and Jim McColl CBE. I received The Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society’s “Silver Medal” for services to Horticulture in 2017. For many years I have been actively involved with making representations to Government bodies, Government (UK and Scottish) Ministers and higher education bodies as well as charities and NGO’s. I am also a long-standing committee member of both “Garden for Life” and “Green Business Fife” groups. Most recently I was appointed a Director of “Trellis Scotland”, and I have been involved in charitable fundraising for the Children’s Hospice Association for Scotland. I have also been involved in the local Children’s Gala and Millennium committee’s where I served as chair of both. My wife Gail is a school support assistant at Lundin Mill and I am in the enviable position of living in the Main Street of Lower Largo where I step out of my house…. turn left to my garden or right to the beach. I am still enjoying an active life and have a particular interest within LCT in Largo House and Grounds.
Emily Macdonald
LCT Trustee & Credit Risk Professional. Click here to email Emily.
I have lived in Upper Largo for 8 years with my husband and 3 sons. My sons attend local primary and secondary schools. I grew up in Edinburgh and studied at Strathclyde University in Glasgow before moving to London. From 2000 – 2015, I worked in the credit risk area for a number of investment banks in London, and was latterly Head of Credit & Market Risk for an Islamic bank. Since moving to Upper Largo, I have been involved in setting up and running Largo Library and Community Hub and I have been a Trustee of Largo Communities Together since the start. I work as a freelance business consultant providing support with business planning, financial reporting and policies and procedures. My main interest in LCT is helping to get projects off the ground that will have tangible benefits for people living locally. I am currently the Trustee responsible for Governance for LCT.
Nora Conlin
LCT Secretary. Click here to email Nora.
I have lived in Lundin Links for over 30 years with my husband, John. Following my time at Edinburgh University, my professional life of some 40 years plus, was spent in education at school, authority and national levels. Much of my time was spent working with primary and secondary schools across the East Neuk and St Andrews from Largo Bay over to the Tay Bridge areas. This afforded me an excellent insight into the local demographic and beyond. Since retiring from the Education Service, I am involved with Largo Communities Together with its values driven approach and became a trustee of the Board in April 2019. In March 2020, I joined the Largo Bay Area Coronavirus Response Team. I work with these groups in a range of ways, including writing minutes and other papers. I am presently working on the development of a Befriending Project for the Largo area. Other interests include the community choir and involvement with Fife Voluntary Action.
JILL MILLER
Trustee.
Jill returned to Lundin Links in 2013, because ‘once you’ve lived in the Largo area there just isn’t anywhere else like it’. She has extensive public and voluntary sector experience and is specifically interested in creativity, inclusion and engagement, focusing on how we make and share individual and community stories. She is passionate about making a difference through people-centred practice and creating conditions that enable individual and community growth and wellbeing, using community assets and cultural resources.
After graduating from the Scottish College of Textiles, Jill worked as a freelance Community Artist, Facilitator and Trainer before joining Fife Council, initially as an Arts and Disability Officer in 1990 and then moving to work in Glasgow in1999. In July 2021 Jill retired from the role of Director of Cultural Services at Glasgow Life, the largest culture, sport and learning charity in the UK. She was responsible for strategic leadership and management of Art and Music, Museums and Collections, Libraries, Learning and Community Services. This included major capital developments, events and festivals, and community engagement programmes. She was awarded an OBE in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to Culture in Glasgow.
Jill is currently the Convenor of Creative Lives Scotland, a Trustee of the Dewar Art Awards and the National Trust for Scotland, and a Director of Fife Coast and Countryside Trust.
JAN KERR
Trustee, Inclusion Click here to email Jan.
I am a Fifer and grew up in Thornton before going to Dunfermline College in 1971. I taught PE in two Fife high schools before having a family. When I returned full-time, I taught children with profound disabilities. I moved to Lundin Links in 1985.
Since retiring in 2001, I have been a trustee with a number of charities. I have been a trustee of the Homelands Trust-Fife since 2010 and secretary since 2011. I am a volunteer in the Paxton Centre cafe at Homelands and run a weekly seated exercise class.
After attending an Eden Project Community Camp in 2017, the Big Picnic was born. I am still involved with the Eden Project through their Eden Communities Scotland Network. Following on from the first Big Picnic, I got a group of local Mums together to raise funds for the new, inclusive play park. I have spoken at several national conferences and given talks to a wide variety of groups to promote Homelands. Prior to that, I was a volunteer with Forth and Tay Disabled Ramblers (FTDR), which I helped to co-found. I chaired the group for six years. At FTDR, I did the fundraising, and I was involved with auditing paths for disabled access, working with land owners and land managers to improve access to the countryside for disabled people.
I live in Lundin Links with my husband, Colin and I'm primary carer for Kitty Walker - many of you will simply know her from Facebook as M'Lady.
Carol Duff
Trustee, Friends of Largo Bay. Click here to email Carol.
Two main focal points for Carol are Community and the Environment. These have been pivotal in life and career choices and are recurring themes in her creative practice as painter and mixed media artist. A qualified teacher, working in schools in Edinburgh and East Lothian, Carol led activities to encourage her pupils to engage positively with the environment in which they lived and ran environmental art classes for student teachers on postgraduate courses. Post teaching, she returned to university and graduated with a degree in painting. Her attention then turned to the positive effects of art in the community; setting up a CIC to support local artists and makers and also established artist-led collaborations. Together with her husband, Carol is the co-owner of The Aurrie, a former Baptist Church in Lower Largo functioning as a café, art and events centre. This provides employment opportunities as well as supporting local artists and makers. It provides a focus for the local community and visitors alike.
Ever mindful of the environment, Carol heads up a willing and motivated team of volunteers – all members of Friends of Largo Bay. Together they undertake activities including beach cleans, community art projects, educational outreach and biodiversity monitoring.
JP Easton
JP has worked within Community Education & Development in Fife for 30 years, working to help individuals and communities identify and work towards/achieve their goals.
Although no longer working, JP’s volunteers his time to the Largo Area Community Resilience Team (LACRT) and to community activities.
JP enjoys a wide range of music (loves a concert), walking and being outdoors, and spending time with family, particularly the grandchildren and his long-suffering wife!
Brendan Diamond BSc Dip Arch. FRIAS RIBA
Brendan moved to Lundin Links from Edinburgh in 2022 after many years coming to his mother-in-law’s flat in Emsdorf Road. He fell in love with the place especially as it reminded him so much of the place where he was brought up in Northern Ireland.
He came to Scotland in 1976 to study architecture at Edinburgh University. He remained in Edinburgh until he retired in 2020. He had a successful architectural career with Michael Laird Architects and was involved in a number of award-winning buildings including RBS HQ at Gogarburn in Edinburgh, City of Glasgow College Riverside Campus and City of Glasgow College City Campus. He was made a fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects Scotland (RIAS) in 2010. He served as a council member on the RIAS and on the Scottish committee for the British Council of Offices.
Since moving to Lundin Links, Brendan decided to throw himself into volunteering in the community. He joined the Community Council where he is now vice chair as well as planning convenor. He was actively involved in organising events around our twinning with Villennes due Seine in 2024. He also joined the Pier Group, bringing his experience in procuring large projects to analyse and progress the design. Brendan is also a passionate golfer and can be seen very regularly on the hallowed turf of Lundin Golf Club.
