Our Team
Our dedicated board and staff bring care, expertise, and passion to every aspect of Common Wheel, working together to support mental wellbeing, nurture inclusion, and celebrate the strengths of everyone in our community.
Our Team
Our skilled, passionate staff lead projects in bikes, music, art, and climbing, supporting wellbeing and inclusion throughout the Common Wheel community.
Gill Law
Gill works works closely with our local and national funders, actively marketing our work and the impact Common Wheel makes on people’s lives.
Heather Brown
Heather works across all our projects, providing operational and systems support that helps the team work efficiently, strengthens internal processes, and improves data quality and reporting. She also leads on communications and supports fundraising activities.
Neil McDonald
Neil is our lead bike engineer and runs our Maryhill workshop. He lives and breathes bikes and uses these skills to support our volunteers and deliver our Build Your Own Bike course.
Steven Mitchell
Steven, our other bike engineer, runs our Bridgeton workshop. Another passionate bike aficionado, he also supports our volunteers and delivers our Build Your Own Bike course.
Fiona Macdonald
Fiona leads our music team who are all trained musicians. Our participatory music workshops take place in a range of settings, including mental health hospital wards, music studios and our base at Gartnavel Royal Hospital.
Wendy Shaw
Wendy coordinates our programme of drop-in activities, booking workshop leaders and recruiting participants. She also coordinates and delivers our visual art project, Carnival Club.
Natalie Feather
Natalie coordinates our climbing project, organising our inclusive climbing groups and working closely with our delivery partners The Climbing Academy and Climb Scotland.
Our Board
We are governed by a voluntary board of trustees. Each member brings a unique set of skills and a huge wealth of experience. We are always looking for new board members. Please get in touch if you are interested.
Sam Calvert
Sam is the Chief Revenue Officer for GoFibre, a Scottish independent broadband provider and network builder. Originally from New Zealand, Sam is an experienced strategic marketing, technology and commercial leader in telecommunications businesses. He’s a fair-weather hillwalker, cyclist, runner and Chief Scritching Officer for retired racing greyhound, Flo.
Joyce Lythgoe
Joyce is a retired director of health economics. She enjoys the outdoors, particularly hill walking and cycling. She retains a keen interest in economics and medical matters.
Grant Urquahart
Grant is a retired Consultant Radiologist. He was a dedicated cycle commuter and retains an enthusiasm for all forms of leisure cycling as well as bicycles old and new. He is married to a retired consultant psychiatrist.
Phil McCafferty
Phil is an architect. He specialises in community-focussed regeneration with an emphasis on ecological solutions – reducing waste, more re-use and less consumption of resources. His interests include arts and culture, economic empowerment and the alleviation of poverty, health, and human rights. He is also a keen cyclist.
Rebecca Osborn
Rebecca is a practising solicitor in the field of criminal law. In her spare time Rebecca enjoys spending time with her young family and playing sport, particularly hockey.
Rachel McMillan
Rachel is a Psychology graduate and enjoys research. She also has a background in music. In her spare time Rachel entertains her cats and participates in falconry.
Poppy Elliards
Poppy is the National Volunteer Coordinator for a Scottish charity, with a focus on communications and volunteer engagement. Poppy enjoys exploring the outdoors in her campervan with her dogs, cycling, going to gigs, and hillwalking.
Arvind Salwan
Arvind brings a huge amount of experience to the board including: serving on the Dementia UK Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP), being a member of both the Dementia Services Development Centre Lived Experience Panel and Age Scotland’s Dementia Lived Experience Forum, acting as a Mentor with The King’s Trust, and contributing over ten years of experience on Scottish Parliament Cross Party Groups. Arvind is also the founder of Dementia Heroes and currently serves as Chair of The Unity Foundation
Stephen Halferty
Stephen has spent 30 years in purpose-led retail, with 14 of these working in Europe & Australia. He’s got a passion for developing new businesses and bringing that experience to support Common Wheel’s work. When he’s not working, Stephen’s all about family time, motorbikes and music – whether he’s listening or playing.