Jim McCormick

Jim McCormick

Jim McCormick

Chief Executive

An Advancing Racial Justice Fund for Scotland

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.

Introducing Change Takes 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.

Sharpening the focus of Our Funds

Our Chief Executive, Jim McCormick, provides an update on upcoming changes to Our Funds.

#DoOneBetter Podcast: Venturing into Social Impact Investing

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.

Standing with Refugees

Our Response to the Illegal Migration Bill becoming Law.

The Robertson Trust signs a joint statement to the UK Government

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.

Aspiration is not enough

Our CEO, Jim McCormick, looks at how our work is being driven by contributing to lasting social change rather than solely mitigating disadvantage

Signals in the noise: getting to grips with poverty

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.