Team Scotland

Meet the Team

Lyndsay McDade, Fearless Scotland Manager

As Manager for Fearless Scotland, Lyndsay leads with compassion, strategic insight and a firm belief in amplifying the strengths, voices and potential of all young people and her team.
 
 Since launching Fearless in Scotland in 2016, Lyndsay has led its growth from the ground up. Her powerful youth digital campaigns received a reach of over 2.6 million last year and led to over 200,000 swipes to the website. 
 
 With 20 years of experience in the third sector across Scotland and internationally, she is a champion of youth co-production and lived experience, ensuring young people are involved meaningfully in shaping every campaign and project.
 
 Her work is underpinned by a deep understanding of trauma and therapeutic practice, shaped by volunteering with children and unaccompanied young people in refugee camps in Northern France, and by her experience as a Supported Carer for an unaccompanied young person who lived with her family for six years.
 
 Above all, Lyndsay is committed to ensuring that all young people feel safe, heard and are supported to thrive.

Donald Tumilowicz, Senior Fearless Outreach Worker

Donald is our Senior Fearless Outreach Worker and leads our project for young people in conflict with the law.

When just 14 years old, Donald was removed from the family home and placed in care for offending behaviour. This was the start of a journey that would lead to young offender units, adult prison and drug addiction.

Since leaving prison for the last time and getting into recovery 12 years ago, Donald co-founded Aid & Abet, a charity for people with convictions. He has also been actively involved in the City of Edinburgh Council’s Turn Your Life Around and has worked on Choices for Life, the Violence Reductions Unit’s Edinburgh Tattoo and Community Justice Scotland's Tribal Home.

Further to his position as Senior Fearless Outreach Worker, Donald also works part-time as a Peer Mentor at the VOW Project in Edinburgh. There he supports young people who have found themselves caught up in the criminal justice system, working closely with them to reduce risk taking behaviour by building their confidence, developing their education and skills and improving their health and wellbeing. 

Donald is an outstanding role model and represents hope, particularly to young people in conflict with the law. He is exceptional at building trust and positive relationships and is passionate about early intervention.

Iain Corbett, Freelance Fearless Practitioner

Iain is our Freelance Fearless Senior Practitioner and supports the development of our resources, and participation based projects. 

Iain is a youth worker and community development practitioner who is passionate about amplifying the voice of young people in processes, policy and decision making in which they are regularly overlooked. 

As a young person, Iain came into conflict with the law on a number of occasions, and these lived experiences have instilled a passion and drive to change attitudes around those who come into conflict with the law, as well as providing spaces and opportunities for young people currently in that situation to affect change, both in their community and with decision makers.

Iain has worked extensively across the third sector in a variety of youth work and coordination roles, as well working in Education, Social Work & Social Policy and Criminology departments across the University of West of Scotland, University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde.

Further to his freelance role with Fearless Scotland, Iain holds the position of Participation, Policy and Engagement Advisor at the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), where he works with young people in conflict with the law to ensure they have fair opportunity to influence policy and legislation that directly affects them.

Iain has a wealth of experience working with children and young people who have been deprived of their liberty in secure care settings and young offenders institutes. Iain currently delivers three programmes in HMP&YOI Polmont - Scotland’s dedicated YOI - working with young men to achieve university accreditation.

Iain is passionate about campaigning against violence against women and girls, and leads workshops on Healthy Masculinity in schools, youth groups and secure settings.