Meet the Board

  • Mamta Patel

    Mamta has over 30 years’ experience as a science and environmental journalist. She co-founded Chemical Watch, a global online news and events service dedicated to helping businesses achieve safer products. Since selling the company and moving to the Highlands, she works with several local and national community bodies.

  • Anne Wood

    Anne is an Ullapool based professional musician and composer specialising in fiddle styles, classical and popular, Anne also teaches and leads the Highland Chamber Orchestra. She trained at the Royal Academy of Music and SOAS (MMus, Ethnomusicology) and was recently the lead artist on When Mountains Meet (Celtic Connections 2023).

  • Rachel Calder

    Rachel is an experienced Events Site Manager and plant operator. She has also been a practising film-maker and installation artist. Over the last 12 years she has worked in voluntary disaster response roles most recently in Türkiye.

  • Adri Patel-Roberts

    Adri is a recent Physics and Philosophy graduate looking to utilise his interdisciplinary experience - alongside his appreciation of the Ullapool area - to help integrate science with art and the unique characteristics of north-west Scotland in an engaging experience.

  • Anna van Oordt

    Anna has worked with children and young people for over 20 years helping to deliver nurture and wellbeing sessions. She is a passionate advocate of Outdoor learning as a way to connect people to their environment and increase social and emotional connection. She has a BA (hons) in History and Art and a background of working in Heritage and Conservation fields including the Tate gallery, Mountain Heritage Trust and Earthwatch

"I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowlege. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

- Albert Einstein