Our team
Cybele Haim
Befriending Coordinator
Cybele‘s role coordinates our befriending service. Her role is deeply rooted in empowering our volunteers and ensuring the well-being of people that use our services. Her two years of experience as a volunteer within our community and having lived experiences of an eating disorder gives her a deeper understanding of our organisation’s values and the importance of dedicated support for those with an eating disorder. She aims to create a supportive environment that values each volunteer’s unique strengths and experiences, ensuring they feel empowered and heard in their roles to positively impact and support the lives of those that use our services.
Our board and office holders
Len Rayne
Chair
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
Treasurer and Secretary
Michael became a Trustee in 2020. His key interests and concerns are child welfare issues and the ‘green’ environment. His career was spent in the ‘clean energy’ sector, where he was a successful business founder, owner and company director at Delta Energy & Environment in Edinburgh. With over 20 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 and a volunteer call-taker with the Parentline helpline service run by Children 1st.
Ellie Johnstone
Trustee
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.
Anne Tremble
Trustee
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. In 2014 ‘The Linda Tremble Foundation’ was set up in her memory to try to help and support others. Linda was for many years an active member of an internet community called ‘We Bite Back.’ 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. Linda fought a long hard battle, and she definitely did ‘bite back’. It is our 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 support they will realise they’re not on their own.