Public appointment: Members reappointed to Scottish Charity Regulator Board

The Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government, Ms Somerville MSP today announced the appointment of Lynn Bradley, Neil Mackay, and Robin Strang as members of the Scottish Charity Regulator. 

 

Members 

 

Lynn Bradley 

Lynn Bradley is a chartered accountant with broad experience in the public and private sectors, including EY and Audit Scotland. She works for the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, specialising in the auditing and public sector accounting.  

She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant’s Audit and Assurance Panel and a board member of Revenue Scotland, where she chaired the audit committee. She is also a trustee of Cash for Kids (Radio Clyde) where she chairs the audit and risk committee. Lynn brings her governance, audit and financial experience to the board as well as her strong commitment to public sector values. 

Lynn is currently the Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee at OSCR. 

 

Neil Mackay 

Neil has spent his career predominantly within the financial services sector and has held executive roles across a broad spectrum of disciplines including commercial management, risk, compliance, and governance. 

He currently holds a number of non-executive board positions in addition to OSCR; Redress Scotland, Registers of Scotland, and is the vice chair of Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland – ‘CHSS’.  

 

Robin Strang 

Robin has extensive experience working within the public and charity sectors. Between 2008 and 2019 he was Chief Executive of charities in Scotland and England with the purpose of improving people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. He is currently a Trustee of EPIC Assist Scotland and a board member of Scottish Canals. Prior to that he was Chair of Community Leisure Scotland, a Non-Executive Director of Sportscotland’s Trust Company and a Justice of the Peace in the Lothian and Borders Sheriffdom. Robin brings experience of managing charities, charity governance and working within a complex regulatory framework to the Board of OSCR.  

 

Reappointment 

The reappointment of Lynn Bradley, Neil Mackay and Robin Strang will be for 4 years and will run from 1 April 2026 until 31 March 2030 

The appointments are regulated by the Ethical Standards Commissioner. 

 

Remuneration 

The reappointments are part-time and attract a remuneration of £224.46  per day for a time commitment of two days per month. 

 

Other ministerial appointments 

Neil Mackay is a Member of Redress Scotland, for which he receive remuneration of £390 per day, for a time commitment of approx. half a day per month. 

 

Robin Strang is a Member of Scottish Canals, for which he receive remuneration of £240 per day, for a time commitment of 20 days per year. 

 

Lynn Bradley does not hold any other public appointments.

 

Political activity 

All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process.  However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees’ political activity within the last five years (if there is any to be declared) to be made public.    

Lynn Bradley, Neil Mackay and Robin Strang have not undertaken any political activity within the last five years. 

 

Background 

The Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) is a Non-Ministerial Office and part of the Scottish Administration following commencement of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005. 

They are the independent regulator and registrar for over 25,000 Scottish charities including community groups, religious charities, schools, universities, grant-giving charities and major care providers. Based in Dundee they have around 50 members of staff. Their work as Regulator ultimately supports public confidence in charities and their work. 

OSCR's general functions are set out in the 2005 Act: 

• to determine whether bodies are charities 

• to keep a public register of charities 

• to encourage, facilitate and monitor compliance by charities with the provisions of this Act 

• to identify and investigate apparent misconduct in the administration of charities and to take remedial or protective action in relation to such misconduct 

•  to give information or advice, or to make proposals, to the Scottish Ministers on matters relating to OSCR's functions