How to Work With Us

Fablevision works at a grassroots level empowering local people informing policy makers and stakeholders.

Lots of different organisations and practitioners talk to us about working in communities from The Scottish Government to Local Authorities and Community Groups - everyone can work with Fablevision.

If you have an idea and would like to talk to us about creating a learning project together, contact our creative team who will be happy to meet you to discuss your ideas.

Phone 0141 425 2020

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People at Fablevision

Fablevision Core Team

Liz Gardiner, Creative Director
Louisa Taylor, Marketing
John Thomson, Researcher
Peter Wilson, Multimedia Director
Simon McGoldrick, Animation
Ben Campbell, Musical Development
Margot Bowman, Finance

Fablevision Creatives

Fablevision has a team of creative practitioners who are employed on
projects on a free lance basis, including Graham Hunter, Frank Miller, Mona Keeling, Louisa Taylor, Catherine Ross, Jerdan Taylor and Ian Stephen.

Fablevision Associates

Lia Ghilardi
Research Fellow at De Montfort and City of London Universities.
Leading cultural planner in Europe (Sweden, Malmo) working on behalf of the
Council of Europe.

Franco Bianchini
Founder and course director of the Masters in European Cultural Planning
formally of De Montfort and now University of Leeds. Prolific writer and
publisher in cultural planning theory and practice, Franco is one of the
lead researchers in the Commedia group.

Gerry Hassan
Director of the Scottish branch of the UK Government think tank, Demos,
Gerry is currently running 2020 visioning projects throughout Scotland
(Glasgow in 2007)

David Harding
Ex director of the Public Art Department in Glasgow School of Art, David has
pioneered cultural planning methodology throughout the UK and Europe for
almost 3 decades. With links to the greatest artists and pioneering thinkers
of the 20th and 21st Centuries, David is an invaluable advisor to the
Fablevision board and staff team.

Fablevision Board

Fablevision boasts a volunteer management committee who are a team of
experts in a diverse range of fields from financial services and accounting
to education, social enterprise and local authority service delivery.

PRINCIPAL DIRECTORS

Fablevision boasts a volunteer management committee who are a team of experts in a diverse range of fields from financial services and accounting to education, social enterprise and local authority service delivery.

Mr John Taylor (Chair),

Financial Services Director with various medium and large scale operations in Scotland for the last 25 years including Thomsons and D.L Bloomer.
Cultural knowledge and passion for Scottish rugby operating within local and national committees of S.R.U. John has chaired the Fablevision board since 1990.

Mr Phil Denning (Cultural Planning and Policy)

Scotland¹s first post graduate masters qualified cultural planner, Phil also
serves on the National Cultural Planning Steering Group and is heading up a
large scale action research project on cultural planning (Rivers and
Regeneration) on behalf of the N.C.P.S.G.

Angela Bedi (Marketing and V.A.T.)
Angela has a long track record in financial services and is the specialist
VAT adviser to the Fablevision board of Directors. She brings financial and
business expertise


Lawrence McCabe (Social Enterprise and Development)
With a long track record in local regeneration initiatives, Lawernce brings
expertise in Local Enterprise company development, community development
trusts, building based asset development, social enterprise and tender
contract development

ADVISORY BOARD

Richard Durk (Financial Systems)
Richard has a long track record of financial planning within a local
authority setting. He is an advisor to the Fablevision board on all
financial matters.

Douglas Tainsh
Douglas has been the Fablevision external auditor since 1986 and he also
acts in advisory capacity to both Fablevision and Fablevision projects. His
expertise in Charities law as it relates to accountancy and planning is
invaluable

Skills & Expertise

Other members of the Fablevision advisory board and staff team have an
equally impressive portfolio of skills and abilities ranging from
administration, financial management ( Margot Bowman, Liz Thomas and Carlo
Beugar, Impart Interim Management services ) and auditing (Douglas Tainsh),
marketing, design (Traffic), project management, film and video work. We
also have a large database of free lance artists who are members of the
Fablevision Creatives and who work on individual projects but also
contribute their vision and ideas to the developing artistic practice on a
voluntary basis.