Board of Trustees & Finance Committee
Secretary to the Trustees
Sister Miriam Ruth Ryan RSM
T: 0131 623 8905
E: Trustees@staned.org.uk
For Deed of Declaration of Trust Purposes (1934) click here
“Charity Trustees are the people in overall control and management of a charity…they are responsible for the charity's governance and strategy, and for making sure that the charity is administered effectively. They
must account for its activities and outcomes,”
- The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
"The Archdiocesan Finance Committee advises the Archbishop on good financial governance. As of 1 July 2019, the Trustees are all, and the only, members of the Finance Committee, which fulfils requirements of both
canon and civil law."
The Very Reverend Patrick Canon Boylan
Canon Patrick Boylan is the parish priest of St Alexander’s in Denny and St Luke’s in Banknock, both in Stirlingshire. He is also chaplain to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert.
A native of Broxburn in West Lothian, Canon Boylan trained for the priesthood at St Andrew’s College, Drygrange, Roxburghshire, and was ordained by Cardinal Gordon Gray in 1977. In 1984, Canon Boylan was awarded
a Licence in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome before going on to teach sacred scripture over a span of 25 years at St Andrew’s College; Gillis College in Edinburgh; and Scotus
College in East Dunbartonshire. In his spare time, he likes listening to classical music and is fond of amphibians.
Mrs Mary Buchan
Mary Buchan brings considerable experience in governance, finance and technology to the Board of Trustees.
A graduate of Heriot-Watt University in Accountancy and Computer Science, she went on to have a 28-year-career with the Royal Bank of Scotland where she rose from the rank of graduate recruit in the technology
department to the level of senior management before moving on from RBS in 2009. Since then she has devoted her time to her extended family and also to parish life in Edinburgh where she lives with her husband and
two teenage children.
The Right Reverend Monsignor Jeremy Milne VG
Monsignor Jeremy Milne is parish administrator at St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh and is Vicar General of the Archdiocese. He studied for the priesthood at the Pontifical Beda College in Rome and was ordained to the priesthood in 2012. He has served in parishes in Edinburgh and the Borders and has a PhD in Ecological Science from Edinburgh University.
The Right Reverend Monsignor Allan Canon Chambers VG
Monsignor Allan Chambers is the parish priest of St Mary’s & St Columba’s in Bathgate and Vicar General of the Archdiocese. Educated at St Andrew’s College, Drygrange, Roxburghshire, he was ordained to the
priesthood in 1980.
He has since served in parishes in Edinburgh, Midlothian, and West Lothian and was a prison chaplain for 16 years. During his time in West Lothian, Monsignor Chambers has chaired the local Children’s Panel and
served as a Justice of the Peace. He is also a qualified Scottish Football Association referee.
The Most Reverend Leo Cushley
The Most Reverend Leo Cushley is the Archbishop and Metropolitan of St Andrews & Edinburgh. Born in Lanarkshire, he studied for the priesthood at St Mary’s College, Blairs, Aberdeenshire and the Pontifical Scots
College in Rome.
He was ordained for the Diocese of Motherwell in 1985. In 1994 he was recruited by the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See, going on to serve in Egypt, Burundi, Southern Africa, Portugal and the United Nations in
New York. From 2009 until 2013, he was head of the English-language section of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State in Rome before being appointed as Archbishop of St Andrews & Edinburgh by His Holiness Pope
Francis in 2013.
The Right Honourable Lord Drummond Young
James Edward Drummond Young QC is one of Scotland’s most senior judges. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Harvard University and the University of Edinburgh, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in
1976.
He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1988. A Judge of the Supreme Courts since 2001, he was appointed to the Inner House in 2013. He was also Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission 2007-12. Lord Drummond Young is
married with one daughter and lives in Edinburgh.
Karen Cockburn
Karen is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 25 years' financial and operational experience in the professional services environment.
Having qualified with KPMG, she spent her early career with GE Capital, a global financial service provider and HBOS/Lloyds Banking Group in mainly Finance roles. Karen then spent nine years at AEGON in various
strategy, transformation and finance leadership roles, laterally as Chief Financial Officer of Cofunds. Recently, she joined Clydesdale Banking Group as Group Transformation CFO.
