ACTION PORTY BOARD
Meet the team
Justin Kenrick
Chair of Action Porty
(also on Bellfield Operations Board)
Supports forest peoples in Africa to retain or regain their community lands - with the Forest Peoples Programme. Supports community assembly processes in Scotland and elsewhere - with Grassroots to Global. Longtime peace and climate activist. Anthropologist. Portobello resident since 1998. See Brief bio in Porty Reporter (page 2).
justin@actionporty.com or (more swiftly) justinkenrick@yahoo.co.uk
Jennifer Elliot
Vice-Chair of Action Porty
Jennifer changed career after more than 20 years in IT sales, and now juggles three part-time jobs - a carer for the elderly and Project Coordinator roles for Porty Community Energy and The Greenhouse Pantry in Craigmilar. She also volunteers with Porty Community Fridge and is one of the fridge’s Co-ordinators. All this plus her family keep her busy!
Jennifer has a great knowledge of many local groups and is a Portobello resident. See Brief bio in Porty Reporter (page 2)
jennifer@actionporty.com
Cathy Maclean
Action Porty Board Member
Passionate about community ownership. Worked at the Scottish Council of Voluntary Organisations for many years. Freelance since 2005, in management roles (CKUK, Scottish Autism) and IT implementations involving e-procurement and training projects in Africa. “I have worked with all sorts of voluntary organisations, and like Action Porty best.”
cathy@actionporty.com
dave cooper
Action Porty Board Member
Dave is active in the Porty Community Fridge sub group, and is one of their two reprensentatives on the Action Porty Board.
He is a self employed tradesmen with 40 years experience. He is a founder member of a local Portobello housing cooperative that has been running since 1984. More recently he has been part of a successful collective self-build project which created 4 new flats built to Passivhaus standards in the heart of Portobello.
Ian Cooke
Secretary of Action Porty
(also on Bellfield Operations Board)
Before retiring in 2020, Ian was Director of Development Trusts Association Scotland, a post he held for over 10 years. Prior to that he held various community-based posts in regeneration. Ian was a member of the Scottish Government’s Land Reform Review Group and has served on a range of boards of community organisations. He has been a Portobello resident for 34 years, and also grew up in the Portobello area.
ian@actionporty.com
John Muir
Treasurer of Action Porty
John is originally from Perthshire and up until recently, lived in Portobello for ten years with his wife and two children. He is a data analyst currently leading a team in a well-known UK bank.
When he is not obsessing over data, he is obsessing over his football team and attending Scotland matches at home, and occasionally abroad. Time with family is most often spent walking their dog, Selkie, or exploring lochs, forests, islands and music festivals in their campervan.
john@actionporty.com
ANNE BUDO
Action Porty Board Member
Anne joined the Action Porty board to represent Portobello Community Fridge. Anne was one of the founding members of the community fridge project.
Anne has lived in Portobello since 1999. She is Belgian but really enjoys her life here in Edinburgh/ Scotland. She enjoys reading, late medieval music and dark chocolate.