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Our team

The Glasgow Girls Club staff represents a cross-section of people most of whom live in the areas where Girls Club operates most frequently. Our team includes former members, community educators, architects, educational professionals, digital technology experts, community activists, and addiction professionals.  

Lauren Mckinnon

Big sister & Community Artist

Lauren is a part II architect and creative practitioner at Glasgow Girls Club. Alongside coordinating projects and supporting day-to-day operations, her work sits at the intersection of feminist design, spatial justice, and grassroots participation. Creating opportunities for young women to shape their city through workshops, public art projects, and creative consultations.

With a background in architecture, Lauren brings expertise in inclusive design methods, participatory research, and co-creation processes, ensuring projects are grounded in the lived experiences of the communities they serve.

She is passionate about bridging the gap between grassroots groups and architectural practice, showing how community-led design can generate meaningful impact, open up new ways of working, and reimagine what a feminist city can be.

Molly Geddes

Big sister & Community Artist

Molly Geddes is a Glasgow-based writer and theatre-maker whose work explores themes of gender, power, and community. She has collaborated with Glasgow Girls Club on projects including Where We Stop, bringing young women’s voices into powerful creative expressions of safety, solidarity, and change.

Her practice often blends storytelling with social justice, creating work that amplifies underrepresented perspectives and sparks critical conversations. With a background in theatre and community arts, Molly bridges creative practice and grassroots activism, using words and performance to imagine fairer, more inclusive futures.

Amy Rew

Founder & Coordinator

Amy's passion to support communities to develop and thrive began in 2011 when she became the chair of Shawlands Business Association and helped create a strong foundation for the eventual formation of the Shawlands Business Improvement District.
Driven by her own lived experience of teenage homelessness and isolation Amy went on to establish the Glasgow Girls Club based on sister organisation, the Lower Eastside Girls Club when she was introduced while living in NYC in 2013.
With 6 years recent tech industry experience under her belt Amy is now committed to combining her experiences, passion and skills to unlock maximum opportunity for young women who are most at risk and marginalised in our communities.

Sophie Thomson

Alumni, Junior Board Chair & Community Manager



Final year student at University of Glasgow studying Scots Law with Social and Public Policy (LLB).

Sophie is a former member of the Glasgow Girls Club joining as a teenager in 2016. Since then, Sophie has gone on to work with Glasgow Girls Club on Community Well-being Directories, Scotland Loves Local business directory and more recently led the research for the collaborative Let’s Get App with Community Justice Glasgow.

Sophie is now chair of the Glasgow Girls Club junior board, heads up the Digi-Connector Volunteering Programme and remains involved in ongoing projects.

Clare Duffin

Widening Access


Lecturer on BA (Hons) Commercial Music and MA Music programmes at the University of the West of Scotland - an institution renowned for widening access participation ensuring that more people from disadvantaged backgrounds can access higher education.

Clare’s practices span over a wide range of music education and entrepreneurial operations, including roles within community music practice. With a keen interest in gender equality, Clare's PhD focused on the concept of ‘mothering and freelance music making in Scotland and her most recent contribution to this field was a chapter published in the Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900.

Divine Tasinda

Big Sister & Community Artist
























Stuart Stevenson

CTO
















Stuart has over 10 years experience in software development and networking and Solutions.

Stuart was a founder of one of UK’s first VPN companies and is currently a
Guest Lecturer and Instructor at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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