Rita  joined greenspace scotland in 2016 as a Community Enabler for Bags of Help, now Tesco Community Grants, a fund that supports local projects with food growing and other community projects.   

For Tesco Community Grants Rita covers the following local authority areas - Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee, Perth & Kinross, Fife and Stirlingshire. 

Rita has been working in rural community development for over 30 years as a community worker, researcher, facilitator, policy officer and grant assessor. She coordinated the Rural Tayside LEADER Programme 2007-2013 working with the Local Action Group to deliver grant funding to community based projects throughout rural Tayside.

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