About us
Dundee Pride (SCIO) is a registered charity (SC04815).
Organising the first Dundee Pride event began in the autumn of 2017 when Pink Saltire, LGBT Youth Scotland, with the support of Dundee City Council, began a series of consultation events within the city. From these events, it was clear that the LGBTQ+ community wanted its own Pride celebration. On the back of these efforts, a group of volunteers came together to start planning Pride and formed Dundee Pride as a charity. And now here we are!
In 2018, the official Dundee Pride events included a march through the city centre, a fun-filled event in City Square, and an after-party at the Dundee University Student Union. Pride, however, is about much more than the official events (fabulous though they are). Dundee Pride is a celebration of all LGBTQ+ people in Dundee and surrounding areas, our LGBTQ+ community organisations, our LGBTQ+ businesses, and our many, many allies.
The charity is governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees. Learn all about our super nice, clever-clogs trustees below.
Annual Report and Accounts are available below:
Board of Trustees
Meet our Board of Trustees - a group of volunteers who work tirelessly throughout the year to fundraise and plan each Pride event.
Our current trustees are:
Luis Alcada - Treasurer & Tustee
Fiona Ballie-Ferris - Trustee
Kenny Christie - Secretary & Trustee
Euan Dargie - Trustee
Duncan Gillies - Trustee
Joy Melville - Trustee
Councillor Lynne Short - Trustee
Tommy Small - Chair & Trustee
You can read more about them below. Additional biographies coming soon.
If you are interested in joining our Board, please click below:
Tommy Small
Chair of Dundee Pride
Tommy is from Dundee. He has worked in various leadership positions over the past 10 years. In his day job, Tommy is a multi award winning choreographer and the first ever Artist in Residence at BBC Radio 2. His critically acclaimed performance work has toured the world including New York City, Brazil and Berlin. He is Artistic Director of Dundee dance company, Shaper/Caper and a Lecturer at Dundee & Angus College. Whilst working at BBC Radio 2, Tommy was mentored by Google Cultural Institute CEO, Amit Sood, and created films featuring Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans and Sara Cox, and a film for Children in Need.
In 2013, he was awarded the Creative Scotland fellowship on the coveted Clore Leadership Programme where he undertook extensive training in governance and leadership. During his fellowship he undertook a secondment at The Roundhouse, London and V&A Dundee and was mentored by Farooq Chaudhry, Producer at Akram Khan Company and English National Ballet.
He choreographed for the opening of the V&A Dundee involving 500 young people from across Dundee dancing alongside professional dancers from Scottish Ballet, performed to an audience of 10k people and presented on BBC1.
Tommy volunteered for many years as a panel member and chairing panel member on the Children’s Panel in Dundee.
Tommy is a Trustee at The Barn (Woodend Arts Limited) and was Chair of the Advisory Board for Performing Arts at Scottish School of Contemporary Dance at Dundee & Angus College. He was a Trustee for Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST) 2013 to 2016. He established and Chairs the first Scottish chapter of the What Next? movement in Dundee. He has also Chaired the Dance Forum for Federation of Scottish Theatre.
Tommy is a trained mentor on FST's Step Up programme. He is a faculty member at Scottish School of Contemporary Dance and previously at the Urdang Academy, London. Tommy has also taught extensively for Royal Academy of Dance, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Scottish Ballet, The Place, and Greenwich Dance Agency.
Tommy is delighted to bring his skill in curating artistic and performance programmes as well as leadership and fundraising skills to Dundee Pride.
Kenny Christie
Trustee and Secretary at Dundee Pride
Kenny Christie was born and raised in Brechin, Angus.
During a career in the public, private and third sector he has enjoyed a number roles including in teaching, lecturing, project management, as education officer and head of service. He taught in Aberdeen from 2002-2008 and from 2003-2007 he was funded by the then Scottish Arts Council as a co-ordinator in Dundee. In a career which saw him undertake key leadership roles in out of school care services and technology safety he was appointed as Education Support Officer for arts and culture for Dundee City Council in 2007 also taking on the role of Head of the Instrumental Music Service from 2010. He was seconded to Education Scotland as a development officer for two years where he helped to establish the national Music Education Partnership Group and develop the national singing framework. As Vice Chair then Chair of the Heads Of Instrumental Teaching Scotland (HITS) network he worked with Scottish Government and colleagues to make the case in front of the Scottish Parliament's Education and Skills Committee for greater access and free music education for all of Scotland's children. As a key member of the Dundee Dance Partnership he worked with other organisations to develop the first dance strategy for the city as part of the sport and physical activity plan. He was the director and choreographer of Dundee Schools Music Theatre for 18 years, a programme providing free access to theatre arts tuition to secondary school aged young people. During this time he also led a number of twinning programmes with sister cities in Germany and the USA. He continues to lead workshops, teach, choreograph and direct on a freelance basis staging productions across Scotland. He previously held the official Guinness World Record having directed and choreographed the World’s Fastest Theatrical production of a musical in 2003 a record which held for seven years. In a voluntary capacity he served as a founding director and chair of the Dundee Whitehall Theatre Ltd and through his tenure of 6.5 years saw the business and physical development of the venue from near permanent closure to a four star graded Visit Scotland attraction and a positive, sustainable future. In 2016, when facing closure in his former home town he led the formation of the Brechin City Hall Users Group as Chair which went on to take over the community ownership and successful running of the venue from Angus Council.
In 2020 Kenny was invited to become a trustee of Dundee Pride and currently serves in the role of secretary.
In 2021 Kenny was appointed as a Non-Executive Director with Angus Alive and along with former colleague and friend Lina Waghorn recently launched Dundee Youth Music Theatre - a socially driven musical theatre charity for all of Dundee’s young people.
Dundee Pride Team
As a small charity, we have only one person working for Dundee Pride on a freelance basis. Lisa Munro works as our Programme Coordinator and is supported by a team of wonderful volunteers.
HUGE thanks to Lisa and all our amazing volunteers who make Dundee Pride happen!
