Chief Executive

About FARE Scotland

FARE Scotland is a dynamic organisation dedicated to uplifting disadvantaged communities across Central Scotland. Our mission is to inspire individuals to aim higher, foster greater community involvement, create avenues for personal growth, and equip people with essential skills to navigate the challenges of 21st-century life.

The organisation began primarily as a youth club operating from an abandoned shop, which soon expanded due to growing demand. FARE Scotland established a community hub that offered various services and amenities, including a café, which quickly became a popular meeting place for locals.  As FARE’s operations expanded, and now with over fifty staff and volunteers working across the East End of Glasgow, the organisation needed larger premises. After years of fundraising and establishing partnerships with businesses and grant-makers, FARE secured the resources necessary to move to a new location.

In the summer of 2010, FARE relocated to the purpose-built Bannatyne House, named after entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne, who made a generous donation. This move allowed FARE to establish an even stronger presence in the community, providing enhanced assistance and reaching a greater number of people. With our new facilities, FARE continues to offer vital services and support, helping individuals and communities thrive in Central Scotland.

Our Mission

To improve the lives of the people in the communities we serve

Our Vision

People and communities thrive and are free from the effects of poverty

Our Aims

• Improve the communities’ health and wellbeing, by the provision of services to meet their social, emotional and physical needs.
• To reduce poverty within communities by meeting people’s employment, educational and training needs, and by providing Scottish Qualifications Authority certificated courses and qualifications.
• To encourage, support, enable and empower people to be connected to their communities, and to act on their ideas, issues and interests
• To provide a caring, trusting environment, which will bring people together to foster positive community relations.
• To be a thriving, sustainable, robust organisation with an ethos rooted deeply in the communities we serve.
• The Aims are not directed by but do fall in line with local and national policies and priorities.