Fiona

Hi.

After a career in journalism and politics, I decided, in 2011, to put my creative energies wholly and firmly behind founding an entrepreneurial business. So in 2011, I set up a company to develop a range of innovative food products based on native premium edible seaweeds.

My business partner is my friend Xa Milne, who was also the co-author of Seaweed and Eat It, which we wrote several years ago now. This led us down the road of discovering the taste possibilities of Britain's untapped native wild resources.

The results of our discoveries will be available to the restaurant trade in early 2012.

I am also a partner in the Robert Owen Innovators, a network of social innovators committed to applying Robert Owen's principles to 21st century Scotland, dealing with Scotland's most entrenched problems of intergenerational poverty and low aspiration.
Robert Owen was the Victorian entrepreneur who set up New Lanark. The Robert Owen Innovators are currently designing a social investment innovation for the most vulnerable 14-24 year olds. This I am involved with on a volunteer and strategic level only.

I am also closely involved in my local community as a member of her community council and Friends of Inverleith Park, where I was involved with a campaign that prevented the council from selling off a corner of Edinburgh's common good premier parkland to a private developer. (see Save Inverleith Park on Facebook).

Currently living in Edinburgh, with my family, I grew up Fiona in Gretna Green, and lived and worked as a journalist in Washington DC, USA, for 11 years.