Region 9: Glasgow and Eilean Siar

Kevin Paterson - Chair

I am Chair of the Western Isles Residents Forum and the treasurer of Hebridean Housing Partnerships Board of Management. I am directly involved in developing the Forums web presence as I have a background in IT project management. I am a keen photographer and hill walker around my beloved Western Isles. I am also an active member of Positive Action in Housing (PAIH).

George McGuinness MBE - Vice Chair

I have been a community representative since 1973. I started in my tenants group in Easterhouse and have worked and lived in the east end of Glasgow all my life. Apart from my work in housing I have been involved in health and youth work. Along with my wife I was lucky to be able to foster 60 children, and in 2007 I was awarded the MBE for work in the community.

Greg Hine - Secretary

Born in St Andrews in 1967. Went to school in West Sussex and college in Berkshire before moving back to Scotland in 1988. Greg is a business consultant advising both large and small businesses on how to improve their profitability and process review and analysis.

I have been secretary of Govan ‘C’ tenants and residents association for the last 19 years and has also served as secretary of East Govan community council helping create the ‘roadbook’ for setting up community councils.

Involved in planning, stock transfer and a variety of local issues involving the development of the waterfront amongst other things.

In my spare time I also run an irish dancing site and my experience is in planning, process, tendering, documentation, process and operational management. Greg lives in Govan with his wife Brenda and his two children, Ariane and Sophie.

John Banks - Treasurer

I have been concerned all my working life with people. When I took early retirement because of mobility problems, I moved back to Glasgow. I became involved with the Residents Association where I live and am Secretary. I also became a community councillor for the area. I am a committee member of our housing association (Glasgow West Housing Association). I have been involved in tenant participation matters for many years.
I have always been interested in furthering the investment in social housing and communities and also wider action.

Margaret Fawcett

Margaret is the secretary of Ladywell & High Street residents & tenants Association, a group we know well following the departure of Donald last year.

Her social interests apart from housing are computers, knitting, sewing and crafts.

Mark Joseph

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Thomas Cassidy

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I also chair the Western Isles Forum of Tenants and Residents Association, which is the umbrella organisation for RTOs in the Western Isles.

I have been chair of TPAS Scotland for the last four years and currently on my final year as chair. I also sit on the Regional Network Glasgow and Eilean Siar and was influential in setting up the network.

John Goldie

Initially joining Cardonald Neighbourhood forum then attending meetings of Penilee TRA I was elected as treasurer and am now chair of this organisation.

Elected as chair of GCTA and Cardonald Neighbourhood forum, treasurer for the Govan & Pollock Recycling Service and attending meetings of District 51 Community Council.

The Citywide Forum (CWF) was formed in 1999 and I was elected to the first board and then to the Consultative Working Group and then the JCC.

Chair of the GHA Southwest Housing Association, the chairs forum, the RTO group, GHA (M) owners forum and Your Place board member.

Other activities involve Streetwatch South, Penilee small area SIP and others

Lillian Woolfries

For the past 7/8 years I have been, first of all treasurer and then Secretary of Banner Residents Association in Knightswood, Glasgow . I have also for the past three years been a member of the Board of the Great Western Tenant Partnership. These two positions have given me a great deal of insight into the running not only of a local Residents Association but also of the wider aspect of the duties involved in making decisions at a higher level as a member of G.W.T.P. where I am assigned to the Repairs and Investment Sub Committee of the organisation.

As a result of my involvement with the Residents Association my name was put forward to be our representative on the Residents Tenant Organisation Federation which was founded approximately 3 years ago and I have greatly increased my experience by being a member of this organisation.

On a more personal note I do have various other interests besides housing and these are computer classes, keep fit and supporting various local groups in their activities for older people like myself. I have a Norfolk Terrier and therefore have the pleasure of going walks and meeting a wide variety of people.

Marie O'Brien

To be finessed:
Secretary of Sandyhills Residents Association, Treasurer of Tenant Controlled Housing our Local Housing Organisation, member of GHA Registered Tenant Organisation Federation, attending Employers in Voluntary Housing, Committee Member of GHA East Area Strategy Group, Committee Member of YourPlace Owner's Forum and their nominated representative to the newly emerging GHA East Area Committee Group and finally a Committee member of the Glasgow City Council Shettleston Area Committee.
Away from the Housing Sector I am also a Founding Member, Chair and tutor, of Trisect Arts & Crafts Group which provides weekly classes for the over 55s in the Baillieston area of the City, as well as being the Founder, Chair and tutor to Sacred Strands, a weekly ecumenical liturgical embroidery group based in St. Paul's Shettleston