Board of Trustees
Meet Our Trustees
Ian Henderson
Managing Trustee
Ian is the Founder and Managing Director of Superior Homes, which finances the work done by the Superior Homes Foundation.
From humble beginnings driving vans in his native Glasgow, Ian built up a successful international haulage business before being commissioned by Non-Governmental Organisations and United Nations to work in some of the most challenging environments on earth.
During this time, Ian became renowned as a specialist in humanitarian logistics and repatriation.
In recent years, Ian has returned to his entrepreneurial roots, building a property portfolio across Scotland and Kenya. It is through Ian’s time in Kenya and, after witnessing the challenge that schoolgirls face with period poverty, he set up the Superior Homes Foundation to provide support to schoolgirls in Superior Homes project areas.
Mbusiro Chacha
Trustee
Mbusiro holds a PhD in Occupational Health Psychology and Management and has 14-years of teaching experience in both Kenyan and UK Universities. In her current role, she is a Lecturer in the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of West of Scotland.
Her career goal is to expand her research portfolio within her area of specialisation of Occupational Health Psychology, and other related areas in education including student engagement and participation in learning. In addition, her goal is to contribute to making an impact on various societal aspects that will help to improve psychosocial health and wellbeing across different demographic groups.
Mbusiro is keen on utilising research to provide evidence-based solutions to real life problems, such as period poverty in Kenya, and will use her experience to support NURU’s efforts to improve the lives of schoolgirls in Kenya.
Andy Robin
Trustee
Andy is a seasoned professional, with over 20 years’ experience working in both the public and third sectors, with a key focus on fundraising.
Andy has successfully delivered capital fundraising appeals for the social care charity, Cornerstone and the Burrell Collection, and is currently managing the fundraising campaign that will deliver the GBP 45 m transformation of Paisley Museum.
Andy will use his experience to help NURU develop into a successful and well governed charity that provides life changing support to the school going girls of Kenya.
Matt Hillin OBE
Board Advisor
Matt has extensive experience of leadership and motivation of people in service delivery. He has a Masters Degree with Distinction in Business Administration from Glasgow University.
Over the span of his career, he held a number of key roles in operations management, IT implementation, programme management, cultural change programmes, business re-engineering, policy development and implementation and national training development and delivery.
Matt Hillin was a Career Civil Servant where he held two significant senior roles in the four years prior to taking early retirement – Head of Operations for Scotland and North East England and before this Director of Legal Enforcement.
He was responsible for leading delivery of performance, client service, people targets and engaging with a wide range of external stake holders including MPs, Charities and Pressure Groups.
Matt has also volunteered at St Vincent’s Hospice and was a Non-Executive Board Member of Paisley First Business Improvement District. He is also a Board Member of Coats Paisley, a charity which was set up to ensure the safeguarding of the building and grounds of the Coats venue by generating income from weddings and events.