Our team
Julie Hogg-Weld
Director
Passionate about preserving and nurturing nature, animals, all things environment, and removing barriers so that people have the best life, can thrive, achieve....love.
Former CEO of three successful charities (counselling/advocacy/ youth/environment), over 20 years at the helm, blessed and proud to lead dynamic teams of people supporting others. Former Trustee on four Boards, currently super involved Trustee with Dog Aid Scotland. Excited now to lead SupportED's new team achieving growth and reach to help even more people with ED and carers.
A Doodlemum who loves hill walking, touring abroad on motorcycle, growing food (allotment), awesome Applecross, sharing stories, laughter and good company.
Isabella Sumsion
Services Manager
Isabella coordinates our support groups at SupportED and her role is focused on ensuring that these services run compassionately. Isabella will work to continually monitor and improve these services with the aim of making our support accessible for as many people as we can.
Isabella has a range of experience from previous roles in eating disorder and mental health settings, of delivering non-judgemental and empowering support, in both 1-1 and group settings. Having experienced her own journey of recovery from anorexia, she is a passionate advocate of a recovery focused and person-centred approach to eating disorder support.
She also has a deep understanding of how challenging eating disorders can be for loved ones, and she cares about providing meaningful support, advice and hope to the families and carers who come to SupportED.
Leah Harris
Befriending Manager
Leahs role coordinates our befriending service. She’s dedicated to making sure the service is welcoming and accessible—so no one has to face their challenges alone. She brings six years combined experience working in mental health and volunteer management, including leading befriending programmes.
On top of that, she’s got lived experience with mental health herself, so she really gets that recovery isn’t a straight line—and that everyone’s journey is different. Leah’s goal is to make sure everyone feels supported—whether you’re volunteering your time or receiving support through our service.
Outside of work, she is a mum to 2 sausage dogs and loves to travel, exploring new places and cultures.
Alyxs Shaw
Engagement Manager
Alyxs’ role coordinates our volunteer and fundraising service. This involves recruiting, training and supporting our incredible volunteers, celebrating their many gifts and talents. Alyxs also works to create new and innovative fundraising projects to sustain, develop and showcase our ever growing and evolving service across Scotland.
Alyxs has worked for just under a decade in the Third Sector, therefore she is very committed to delivering an excellent service to both volunteers and to our service users.
Alyxs also has lived experiences of an eating disorder, understanding firsthand the struggles this can present. She is very passionate about providing hope, encouragement, compassion and understanding to those in need.
Josephine Balfour-Oatts
Research Student
Josephine is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, exploring if and how complex experiences of eating disorder recovery may be more richly reflected and supported by experimental prose texts than by traditional novels that currently dominate its literary depictions.
In partnership with SupportED, Josephine will also be considering potentials for experimental literature in reading and writing-based therapies for assisting anorexia recovery. A long-standing volunteer with SupportED, Josephine has been a Befriender and Peer Group Facilitator since 2023, and she also works as a Peer Support Worker in the NHS, where she uses her own lived experience of recovery to support others.
She is passionate about combating fragmented eating disorder care pathways in Scotland and championing lived experience voices in eating disorder treatment and research.
Our board and office holders
Anne Tremble
Trustee, Treasurer and Co-founder
My husband Colin and I lost our daughter Linda in April 2011.
She was only thirty-two when she tragically lost her 17-year battle with anorexia.
During 2014 we decided to set-up ‘The Linda Tremble Foundation’ in her memory to try to help and support people affected by eating disorders.
Setting up the charity took me back to places I didn't really want to go, but I felt it was important to tell the story because it is such an important story to tell.
Linda was for many years an active member of internet communities, through this she inspired lots of women all over the world who suffered and struggled, as she did, with the task of recovering from an eating disorder such as anorexia.
She wanted to change the way that eating disorders are viewed by the media and by the health care system and I am trying to continue this in her name.
It was and is still my intention that SupportED – The Linda Tremble Foundation – should try to make a considerable difference to as many individuals and families in Scotland affected by and dealing with eating disorders as possible.
Through our help and support I hope they will realise they are not alone.
Christine Gentles
Trustee
Christine worked in the charity sector for over 10 years, working Operations in the areas of Youth and Sustainable Development as well as Mental Health and Safeguarding. She currently works in the Energy Sector working on projects on the UK Net Zero target.
Christine is a credited Scottish Mental Health First Aid Instructor, and hopes to make understanding of mental health issues/illness accessible to everyone.
Outside of work, Christine’s life is all about her son and dog. Most weekends are spent running about after them or watching one of her 4 rugby teams.
Ciara Weatherup
Trustee
Ciara joined SupportED (The Linda Tremble Foundation) as a Trustee in 2024. She brings eight years’ experience in social work supporting families and young people, and has mentored with the charity Light Up Learning. She is currently Wider Access Manager at George Watson’s College, working to ensure equality of access for underrepresented young people.
Ciara also serves as Company Secretary at Lugo Limited, an IT support company, where she has supported operational growth and administration. She brings a strong mix of organisational insight and frontline experience to her role at SupportED.
Her motivation to join the Board is deeply personal, shaped by her own lived experience of an eating disorder. Ciara is committed to ensuring that no one affected by an eating disorder feels alone, and that timely, compassionate support is accessible to all.
Ellie Johnstone
Trustee and Secretary
Ellie became a trustee in 2020 with a background in the energy industry, management and health and well-being in a call centre environment. She currently works with a diverse global workforce supporting them in what can be a highly pressurised and forever changing industry. Having close friends affected by eating disorders and having volunteered before she is keen to get involved with increasing the awareness and support available to people in need.
Innes Morgan
Trustee
Innes Morgan is a social entrepreneur and adviser from the Highlands. He brings experience across strategy, development, and public engagement, having worked with organisations including the UK Parliament, the Children’s Commissioner, and the North Sea Commission.
Innes is passionate about building organisations that lead with compassion and clarity, and that strive for impact – especially in ways that support people and communities too often left on the margins.
He joined the board of SupportED in 2024.
Jo Skead
Trustee
Jo has over 10 years’ experience in working in community and sports development. Her roles have given her experience of working with volunteers and breaking down the barriers to participation in sport. She has 7 years’ experience of working in partnership with mental health charities and has assisted in the role out of mental health awareness campaigns and training.
She understands that living with an eating disorder can be a lonely and isolating experience, having struggled herself with bulimia for 20 years.
Jo is passionate about creating safe, supportive environments where people can connect, engage, and achieve their full potential and get the support they need.
Len Rayne
Trustee
Len became a trustee late in 2020 after many years in the energy industry. He has a wide range of experience across sales, project management and marketing. Len helped establish a solid relationship between his previous employer and a leading cancer research charity within the UK, raising much needed funds along the way. His role is to help build on the success of the charity to date by increasing awareness of SupportED, and the services that they provide.
Michael Brown
Trustee and Co-chair
Michael became a Trustee of SupportED in 2020. His main interests are child / young person protection and mental health issues, and the ‘green’ environment.
His career was spent in the clean energy sector, where he was a business founder, owner and company director at Delta Energy & Environment in Edinburgh.
With over 25 years of experience in bringing about business growth, alongside coaching, mentoring and motivating in commercial and not-for-profit working environments, he’s also a qualified Business Coach, a Panel Member with Children’s Hearings Scotland, a young person’s mentor with Scotland’s MCR Mentoring scheme and a volunteer call-taker with the Support Helpline run by Children 1st.
Tom Ogilvie
Trustee
Tom joined SupportED as a Trustee in 2025. He brings fifteen years of marketing experience, having worked in the automotive, e-commerce & spirits industries before moving to the marketing agency space in 2021.
His motivation to join the Board was spurred on by seeing how different cancer charities supported his family during his late sister Laura’s cancer battle (she passed away in 2021, aged 32).
Tom is committed to using his marketing knowledge to help drive and develop SupportED’s digital channels forward in the years to come
Fionnuala Shakespeare
Trustee
Fionnuala joined SupportED as a trustee in 2026. She has volunteered with SupportED for a number of years in facilitation and befriending roles. Her lived experience of eating disorders has given her a huge passion to support other people. Fionnuala has served on a number of boards, with a focus on increasing public awareness of mental health issues.
Professionally, Fionnuala has been working in philanthropy for a decade, currently leading on fundraising for the Christian Aid Resilient Futures Fund, an impact investment fund.
She is also training to become a psychotherapist, with an aim to specialise in support of people with eating disorders