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. He has been secretary of Govan ‘C’ tenants and residents association for the last 17 years and has also served as secretary of East Govan community council helping create the ‘roadbook’ for setting up community councils, he also runs an irish dancing site feisbook.co.uk in his spare time. Having been involved in many voluntary projects, his 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.

Rena Dowling

My interests are my computer, jigsaw puzzles, crosswords, and going to meetings. I have qualifications in information technology and I am a director of Partick Housing Association, Friends of Mansfield Park, Partick Youth Partnership, Partick Homes Ltd, and Partick United Residents Group.

Barney Mackay

I have been involved in the tenant movement since the establishment of the Cearns Residents Association which formed in 1983 and is the biggest housing estate in the Western Isles.

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

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Lillian Woolfries

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Marie O'Brien

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