• RECTANGULAR LOGO Logo of We Make The Path CIC: a hand-drawn snail looks towards the text on their right. On the first line, the text reads WE MAKE THE PATH. On the second line, the text reads COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE. Both lines are in all-caps and written in a clear, light font. Both the text and the animal are black on a white background. ROUND LOGO Logo of We Make The Path CIC: a hand-drawn snail looks to their left. The text circles them and reads We Make The Path - Community Cooperative. The animal and the text are in light blue on a darker, blue-green background.

      Who We Are

      Staff, Board, Volunteers & Funders

    • We Make The Path CIC is a community interest company registered in Scotland. We are organised as a workers' cooperative, with staff members making strategic decisions collectively, with oversight and support from an advisory board. We are also supported by volunteers who carry out specific tasks, and funders who believe in our work.

    • Staff

      Photograph of Elinor, a white person with els grey hair in a sidecut. Elinor is wearing a black rain jacket over a grey sweater. Elinor is looking directly at the camera, els left hand touching a very large tree trunk. Elinor looks calm and confident.

      Elinor Predota: Programme Director

      Elinor (pronouns: el/el/els) is the founder and Programme Director of We Make The Path CIC.

       

      El has a wide-ranging professional background in adult education, community development and youth work, organisational and business development, social research, celebrancy, spiritual counselling, complementary therapies and storytelling.

       

      Elinor's own life with chronic illness has led el to bring all of that knowledge, skill and experience to bear on the issue of how chronically ill people can live more fulfilling lives, and make our contribution to the world.

       

      We Make The Path CIC is the result.

       

      Contact Elinor

       

      Photograph of Ether, a 30-something white person. Ether's hair is brown and very short, peeking out of their grey hooded shirt. Ether is wearing a blue and black checkered button-up shirt on top of their t-shirt. They are also wearing blue-tinted, aviator still sunglasses. Ether is grinning very happily at the camera, with a cloudy summer sky and a forest in the background. Ether looks energetic and fun to work with.

      Ether Nepenthes: Operations Manager

      Ether Nepenthes (they/them) is the Operations Manager for We Make The Path CIC.

       

      Their professional background ranges from promoting fair trade and sustainable development with NGOs to remote troubleshooting, as well as public administrative work and, more recently, mentoring for creative writing.

       

      Ether's lived experience with chronic illness and their keen interest in uplifting their fellow marginalised siblings is what led them to We Make The Path CIC.

       

      As Operations Manager, Ether works behind the scenes to make We Make The Path CIC a smooth and fulfilling experience for the chronically ill people it serves.

       

      Contact Ether

       

    • Advisory Board

      Alexis P. Morgan

      Alexis (pronouns: she/they) is a bon vivant muse, multi-disciplinary artist, and ancestral sorceress, devoted to the work of radical luxury as apocalypse medicine.

      Expertise: business administration, spiritual alignment
       

      Tiana Dodson

      Tiana (pronouns: she/her) is a fat body liberation coach out to destroy the belief that you have to be skinny to be happy and healthy.

      Expertise: project management, body liberation

      Anuradha Kowtha

      Anuradha (pronouns: Anuradha) is the CEO of The Kowtha Consellation. Anuradha's work is undoing the impact of indoctrination from capitalism and colonialism on who we are and how we do our work in the world.

      Expertise: diversity, equity and inclusion

      Sarah Mariann Martland

      Sarah (pronouns: she/they) is the founder of Trauma & Co. She is a Trauma Support Practitioner & Consultant, providing online individual and community support to people living with trauma and to professionals working with trauma.

      Expertise: working with trauma

    • Volunteers

      Heidi

      Heidi supports our work as a desk researcher, seeking out academic and policy papers which are relevant to our work.

      Tootkin

      Tootkin provides additional administrative support, and also acts as an extra sounding board for our ideas.

    • Funders

      Logo of Firstport Social Entrepreneurs Fund, attesting that We Make The Path CIC received funding from the organisation.

    © 2020 - 2022 We Make The Path CIC all rights reserved

     

    We Make The Path CIC is a community interest company registered in Scotland.

    Registered Company Number: SC710918.

    Registered Address: Mid Raeburn, Eskdalemuir, Langholm, DG13 0QT, Scotland, UK.

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