About us

Basic Income Network Scotland is an educational charity. Our aim is to raise awareness of the benefits that a basic income would bring to Scotland.

We are a charity that supports a network of basic income advocates – providing training and a platform for discussion. We lend our expertise to government and share the stories of people who would benefit from a basic income.

Join us on Facebook and Twitter, or email team@cbin.scot with any enquiries.

We also have a mailing list you can sign up to here.

If you would like to help us raise the profile of basic income in Scotland please get in touch.

Don’t have the time but want to give to the cause? You can donate to Basic Income Network Scotland by clicking the button below.

 

Trustees

Mike Danson – Chair
Mike Danson is Chair of Basic Income Network Scotland, an economist and Professor of Enterprise Policy at Heriot-Watt University. He has researched and written on a wide range of economic development, poverty and policy issues, and advised local, national and international governments, agencies and other organisations for over 40 years. With 14 books, over 300 papers and official reports, he is a well-known commentator on a diverse range of themes including community resilience, the economic impact of minority languages, microbreweries, early onset dementia, rural and peripheral Europe. Mike is also convenor of the Jimmy Reid Foundation and a trustee of Nordic Horizons.

Annie Miller
Retired academic economist, lecturer, author, basic Income advocate, Annie Miller was a co-founding member in 1984 of what is now the charity, Citizen’s Basic Income Trust (CBIT), and also of the Basic Income European/Earth Network (BIEN) in 1986. She also co-founded the Basic Income Network Scotland in 2016. Her main interests are: Defining basic income; Basic income and women; Basic income, work incentives and labour supply; Designing and costing BI schemes for the UK and for a fully fiscally-devolved Scotland. She is the author of A Basic Income Handbook (2017), A Basic Income Pocketbook (2020) and Essentials of Basic Income (2020), Edinburgh: Luath Press.

Jack Scott – Secretary
Jack has an MSc in Political Communication and is keen to apply his research on online policy advocacy and the Basic Income movement to further the cause in Scotland.

Alex Thorburn

Sam Shand – Treasurer

Timothea Armour

Lena Swedlow

Lena is a campaigner for basic income. She has previously worked at Basic Income Conversation on their campaigns, coordinating their community consultation on basic income pilot proposals, working with the Cross-Party Parliamentary and Local Government working group on basic income, and currently works at Compass.

Luke Brotherdale Smith