Jim McCormick
Chief Executive
Dr Jim McCormick is Chief Executive of The Robertson Trust, an independent grant-making charity which funds, supports and influences solutions to poverty and trauma across Scotland. He joined the Trust in 2020. He is a member of the Living Wage Commission and Board member of Morton in the Community.
Previously he was Associate Director Scotland with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2017-20), ran an independent research consultancy and was Director of the Scottish Council Foundation think-tank. He has been Chair of the Disability and Carers Benefits Advisory Group reporting to the Scottish Social Security Minister (2026-21), co-Chair of Highland Poverty and Equality Commission (2025-26), Chair of the Edinburgh Poverty Commission (2018-20) and a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC), which scrutinises the Department for Work and Pensions’ GB regulations.
In 2018 he was a travelling Churchill Fellow looking at the impact of mentoring programmes for children and young people facing disadvantage in Canada, New Zealand and the USA.
Our Chief Executive, Jim McCormick, provides an update on our Equity, Diversity, Participation and Rights (EDPR) work and shares what’s on the horizon, including a new £1M Advancing Racial Justice Fund co-designed with lived experience leaders and The Robertson Trust.
Change Takes Trust outlines how The Robertson Trust is building on the progress of our 2020 Strategy, which placed preventing and reducing poverty and trauma at the heart of our work.
Our Chief Executive, Jim McCormick, provides an update on upcoming changes to Our Funds.
In a chat with Alberto Lidji for #TheDoOneBetter Podcast, our Chief Executive Jim McCormick shares our recent journey into social impact investing, to support our mission to build lasting solutions to poverty and trauma in Scotland.
Our Response to the Illegal Migration Bill becoming Law.
The Robertson Trust has joined up with more than 100 organisations across Scotland calling for the UK Government to scrap its ‘Refugee Ban Bill’ and open safe routes to refugee protection for people fleeing war and persecution.
Our CEO, Jim McCormick, looks at how our work is being driven by contributing to lasting social change rather than solely mitigating disadvantage
A year from the start of the Trust’s strategy, and to mark Challenge Poverty Week, our Chief Executive, Jim McCormick, looks at the poverty pressures bearing down on low-income households in Scotland and where action is needed if we are to apply the lessons of the pandemic.