We’re a friendly bunch here at FYF, each as dedicated as the last and not that we’re biased at all, but we definitely have the best team in the world. Read on to find out who we are and what we do.
Cor Hutton
Cor lost her hands and feet to sepsis back in 2013 and set up our charity to offer peer support to amputees in all stages of their life and journey. She can be found spreading the word about FYF and visiting new Troopers. Cor also meets with health, education and NHS personnel, and is a motivational speaker. Despite being a triathlete and world record holder, when it comes to making tea or coffee she’s quick to play the ‘amputee’ card…
Nicola Booth
Nic keeps everything running at Finding Your Feet – the team regularly receive emails from her at 4 am… She’s in charge of strategic planning, oversees the day-to-day running of our charity and is the point of contact for initial enquiries. The only time she stops working is to have a laughing fit at her favourite joke: “What’s Cor short for? Cos she’s got no legs!”
Lesley Lawrie
Les is a below-knee amputee who volunteered for the charity before coming onboard. She is now the manager of our Well-being Team, coordinating all of the support we provide for amputees both in person across Scotland and online. In other words, Les is very important and very busy. When she’s not working on that, she’s kept busy having to explain her Fife slang to the rest of the group. Who is this Ken she always speaks of?
Rebecca Terrey
After a stint in fundraising, Becca absolutely found her calling as our Well-being Co-ordinator and now hosts clubs at our HQ, helps organise new activities and gets to know anyone coming along for the first time. She loves a holiday, so take your pick of the puns: life’s a beach, long time no sea, I’m on a cruise so I don’t give a ship, and so on… Becca has a Barbie calendar in the office, which must make Les Ken? (Joke only works if you have also read Les’ bio above)
Gordon MacDougall
After volunteering as a Peer Supporter and handling check-in calls with Troopers, Gordon was the perfect fit as our Well-being Engagement Officer. He’s an above-knee amputee and uses his experience to raise the spirit of the amputees he calls and ensures they know we’re there for them. When he’s not chatting to the Troopers, you’ll often find him winding up someone in the team – they probably had it coming – right?
Lewis Flynn
Lewis first joined us on placement while studying for his Social Care University Course and we knew straight away he was a keeper. We had to have him back. As a below-knee amputee himself, he brings lived experience, fresh ideas, and the kind of energy that’s hard to ignore (or keep up with). Now officially part of our Well-being Team as a Support Advisor, Lewis is big on fitness, big on getting our Troopers moving, and somehow already going viral. He’s basically a local celebrity in the office. We’re not saying he’s got main character energy… but if the shoe fits.
Stacie Ward
Stacie came on board working in the FYF Hub and has since become a Well-being Assistant, helping with admin and chatting to Troopers. She’s obsessed with Marvel movies, but I bet she never thought that fact would end up on the web… Because Spiderman… He’s in with the Avengers… Forget it.
Lisa Denmark
Lisa is our Well-being Club Co-ordinator and, as an amputee who’s been part of the Finding Your Feet community for a few years, coming onboard feels like a very natural fit. She’s already out and about at our clubs, getting to know our Troopers, securing new venues and bringing fresh ideas for new activities. Lisa has completed two cold water dip challenges for us in Loch Lomond. We think that says enough about her.
Toni Strachan
Toni joins the Well-being Team as Outreach Co-ordinator, helping to co-ordinate our hospital visits and peer support. She’s no stranger to FYF with being an amputee herself – she’s been regular at our clubs and a peer support volunteer too, so having her officially on the team feels exactly right. She’s already well-loved across the community and making waves from day one. With Toni joining the team, we’ll miss the mini chaos that is her daughter Isla running rampant at our Ampu-Teas.
Jen McGregor
Jen is our Marketing Manager who brings structure, strategy and sparkle, and she’s definitely hit the ground running (colour-coded spreadsheets and all). She’s been busy writing our new marketing strategy, ramping up our socials and shaping how we talk about life with limb loss. She just gets us — it already feels like she’s always been part of the gang. One of her first TikToks hit 9 million views (cheers, Lewis). She’s got us viral, visible and slightly overwhelmed.
Paul Johnson
After benefitting from Finding Your Feet’s support as a double above-knee amputee, Paul joined the team as Marketing Co-ordinator. He helps handle social media, design and PR for the marketing department. He spends a lot of his time with the amputees we work with, telling their inspirational stories in various formats and spreading the word about our charity and its goals. He’s right into his tunes and doesn’t hide the fact that he thinks the songs that the rest of us like are terrible even though it’s widely agreed he has the worst taste in music…
Emily Irving
Emily has joined the Marketing Team as our new content creator and she has not wasted a minute. She is working with Cor and Davy to build their profiles which is no small task when neither of them stands still for long. She is already filming, editing and catching the moments that help more people hear about Finding Your Feet. On her second day she managed to prank Davy which is usually the moment we know someone is truly one of us. Away from the lens she is an uber cool drummer with dreams of touring the world and honestly we are just glad she has not started her world tour yet.
Jamie Scott-Dyson
Jamie is FYF’s Grants Officer, putting together applications and forming relationships to get us vital funds to support amputees throughout the country. He certainly has the key to success. Speaking of keys, he locked himself out of the office with all his things inside in his first week. It was, and remains, funny.
Roisin O’Leary
Roisin joins the FYF team as Grants Officer, researching funding opportunities, writing applications and building relationships with funders to bring in the vital money that keeps everything we do going for our Troopers across Scotland. She’s already won 2 grants in her first month and we want to keep her forever. She’s a forager, a manifestor and has a dream of owning a donkey. We’re just glad she manifested this job first.
Zoey Hillman
Zoey is our Fundraising Manager, taking old school notes and coming up with new school ideas. She’s the mind behind our memorable events and is always on hand to help a kind soul who wants to raise money to support amputees. She’s got a Mancunian twang so if you close your eyes it’s like hearing Liam Gallagher without paying 500 quid for a ticket – win-win!
Mia Malcolm
Mia is our glamorous Community Fundraiser, helping with admin and connecting with businesses to gather support in the form of raffle prizes, donations and sponsorship. Without knowing for sure, it’s safe to assume her favourite treat is a pack of M&Ms and that she enjoys the music of Eminem.
Cheryl McKenzie
Cheryl is our Corporate Fundraiser who strengthens and builds relationships with corporate partners and encourages them to support the work we do. As an amputee herself, she already understands what Finding Your Feet means to people. Bubbly, fun and passionate about the work, Cheryl is already making a huge difference to the team. Her bright pink hair matches our brand colours, which we’re choosing to believe was entirely intentional.
Joan-Anne Quinn
Joan-Anne wears two hats within the FYF team – firstly she’s our Volunteer Manager, supporting our volunteers in everything they do for us and our Troopers. She’s also our Hub Manager, handling everything that goes on in the Hub, from bookings to maintenance, and much more. On top of her role with us, she’s always volunteering, supporting and helping people in her spare time. One might say she’s almost too kind… we’ll be keeping an eye on this one…
Fiona Lynch
Fiona joined our team as an FYF Hub Assistant in our Day Hub, handling room set-ups, turnarounds and being a friendly face for our bookings. She loves to paint animal portraits in her spare time and is already planning her next portfolio using the FYF team…
Craig Kerr
Craig joins the FYF team bringing a wealth of IT and systems experience, and he’s going to make sure the whole team and all our processes are running as smoothly and efficiently as possible. He may occasionally be speaking a language the rest of us don’t fully understand yet, but we’re working on it. He’s self-titled as the Systems Overlord. We’re slightly scared. Go easy on us, Craig.