Anne lands top job

A CONSERVATION charity has announced the appointment of a Dumfries and Galloway woman as its director of conservation and policy.

Anne McCall, who is originally from this region, will start her new role with the National Trust for Scotland in August.

Currently the director of RSPB Scotland, since 2017, she has been proud to help establish a country-wide programme of peatland restoration, played a key role in many game changing landscape scale conservation projects and chaired the judging panel for the Nature of Scotland Awards each year.

Anne, right, is also a qualified town planner and holds a degree in history and politics.

At the National Trust for Scotland, she will oversee all the charity’s national conservation functions of buildings conservation, nature conservation, collections services, gardens and designed landscapes, archaeology, policy, environment and risk.

Anne said: “I am honoured to be able to take on this unique role with such an extraordinary organisation. As a member of the National Trust for Scotland I have long admired the scale and scope of what it delivers and it will be my great privilege to contribute to that delivery.”