I’m a New Zealander, married to a Scot and for 33 years I have been living in Glasgow – this lovely old, friendly, indomitable, moist Scottish City.
I qualified as a Chartered Accountant after training with Coopers and Lybrand (now PwC) in New Zealand and London. In my early 40’s I took, what seemed at the time, a big career shift and moved into economic and social regeneration work and was Finance Director for Govan Initiative Ltd in Glasgow for several years. Around 20 years ago I set up my own consulting and accounting practice in the West End of Glasgow.
I love my work largely because of the people I meet within the third sector – ‘salt of the earth’ folk who are trying to build flourishing communities and make our world fairer and more just.
I am married to Janet who is a retired GP. We met when she went to NZ for a working holiday after graduating from Glasgow University. We have three adult children, David (who manages the practice), Kirsty who is a primary school teacher and Jonny who is pursuing a career in counselling psychology.
I have been involved with Preshal from the start over 20 years ago – as a trustee and more recently as treasurer. It is a lovely charity with a warm welcome, a cup of tea and a piece of toast to anyone who visits us. I am very thankful to our loyal and compassionate staff team ably led by Alan Nicholson.
I enjoy cycling most days (visiting clients or simply to get around), reading, relaxing with friends and hillwalking in Scotland. I am very happy to call Scotland my adopted ‘second home’, but I love getting back to New Zealand my ‘first home’.I attend Cairns Church of Scotland and enjoy theology and thinking about the extent to which the religious and spiritual sphere plays a part in our lives. I just love feijoas, a NZ fruit with a distinctive sweet, juicy, aromatic flavour.

I got to know Preshal through my mother Cathy Montrose who was its president from ??? until her death in 2014. I took part in fundraisers and enjoyed seeing it grow from its beginnings in a ramshackle outbuilding to its current home in a beautiful new purpose built centre. I got to know many of the individuals whose lives were touched and in some cases radically transformed through the work of Preshal. After my mother died May asked me if I would like to take on being president following her. I was amazed and humbled by the request. I felt I could never offer what my mother had brought to the board but May reassured me that what I had to bring was enough. I have my own lived experience of mental health issues over the years and so I can empathise very strongly with that side of Preshal’s work. In my professional life I worked for many years as a clinical psychologist in the NHS so the concept of providing therapeutic care and activities within the community is close to my heart. In 2019 we opened a Community and Therapeutic Garden at Preshal which Agnes Bowie and myself took a lead on. It was a privilege to see it grow from a vision to transform a piece of derelict land into a fully functioning space for outdoor activity and socializing, with murals, a play area, flower beds and a vegetable patch. Preshal never stands still for long and it is a privilege to be part of such a dynamic community charity.

I was born in Kilmarnock in 1942, in 1949 the whole family moved to Corby in Northamptonshire. I attended Kimbolton School before going to the Royal Agricultural College Cirencester, hoping to farm, however after running an ancient Maltings in Salisbury I joined the family Civil engineering business back in Glasgow. We diversified the business into waste disposal and I was a part of the senior management team taking the company public in 1988, subsequently I led a management buyout of three subsidiaries. MacIain Service invited me to join the board of the Preshal Trust in 2002, a great honour, I found May Nicholson a dynamic inspiration and have thoroughly enjoyed working with the whole Team. Helping to develop Preshal and establish our lovely Drop-in-Centre In Govan has been a most fulfilling and satisfying project.

I was Educated in Scotland and then did two years National Service with a commission in the Royal Artillery. After that I worked in insurance in Lloyds and in Glasgow. Voluntary work was with the British Rheumatism and Arthritis Society in Maryhill and also with Christian Action Housing.
I volunteered with UNRWA and did some months work in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon. On my return I set up Service Miller and Co Ltd Insurance Brokers and qualified as a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute (FCII). I was also on the Board of Glasgow City Mission for many years with responsibility for their Govan branch which is where I met May.
When GCM decided to close their Govan branch May and I agreed that the work must go on. So with a toaster and a kettle we co-founded The Preshal Trust in a small room of the late Reverend David Keddie’s Church in Govan. I was Chairman for twelve years and am delighted still to be serving on the Board.

Kenny has a background in the building trade and during this time acquired a portfolio of rented properties, both in the Isle of Lewis and Glasgow.
He also spent time working for the local authority in the Chief Executive Department, mostly in the Reprographics Department.
Kenny was involved with the Duke of Edinburgh Award for many years in different roles. This included taking Gold Award level groups to Romania and twice to Moldova and Uganda. The groups worked with Christian charities. For a period of several years, Kenny was a pastoral support worker at a residential rehabilitation centre on Lewis.
Kenny lives on the Isle of Lewis and has been involved in many local community groups and charities. He has been a board member with Preshal since 2018?