Hot Chocolate Trust

Hot Chocolate Trust - Staff Members

Hot Chocolate runs with a very dedicated team of volunteer youth workers and is overseen by a board of volunteer trustees. The staff team was established in 2004 and has grown and developed to the strong team it is now.

Alison Urie
Project Development Manager

Alison has been with Hot Chocolate from the start. Along with volunteers she started Hot Chocolate in 2001, which has grown into the project it is today. She loves music, good food, the great outdoors and skiing

Charis Robertson
Youth Development Worker

Charis has just completed a postgrad course in community education and will start work with Hot Chocolate in July 2007, just in time for Exodus. She has previously lived in Inverness, St Andrews, Perth, Glasgow, Greenock, and a big ship off the coast of West Africa. She is now, however, in Dundee to stay.

Pete Larkum
Youth Worker

Pete has been working as a qualified youth worker since 2003; his first job was in Winchester where he worked for the YMCA until he moved to Scotland in order to support his wife who is training as a professional dancer. Pete has been working with the Hot Chocolate Trust since September 2006 and loves the work he is involved with.

Claudia Chappell
Administration & Finance Officer

Claudia is delighted to have joined Hot Chocolate in January 2007. She hopes her experience of organising the complex social lives of four daughters will give her the multi-tasking experience needed for the Hot Chocolate office.

Hot Chocolate Trust - Previous Staff Members:

Cat Kinghan
Administrator

Cat worked with Hot Chocolate from August 2005 to August 2006 as our administrator. She has moved on to work full time as a youth worker with her church in Newport. She also lives in Newport with her husband Mark and rescue dog Maggie.

Kirsty Bowser
Volunteer Youth Worker

Kirsty was involved with Hot Chocolate from its inception. After school she took a gap year to work with Hot Chocolate from 2004 – 2005. She is now at Edinburgh University studying community education.

Graeme McKerracher
Youth Worker

Graeme worked for Hot Chocolate from the summer of 2005 to May 2007. Having come on a gap year after university, he stayed for nearly two years, and has settled on a career in youth work. He is now working for HyZone, a youth project based in Hamilton.