Weekly Meeting - Business Meeting and Presentation of the Cairncross Trophy to Mike Robinson

President Joe Cairns presenting the Cairncross Trophy 2022 to Mike Robinson in recognition of his many years’ contribution to community sport, leisure and wellbeing in Perth as Chairman and a Board Member of Live Active Leisure. Mike has been passionate about affordable sport and leisure and believes it is a critical underpinning of our quality of life.

Mike is the Chief Executive of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society based in Perth, a role he has held since 2008. He has worked in the Scottish charity and environment sector for the last 25 years, initially with RSPB, & later with the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.
In a voluntary capacity Mike holds a large number of board and government advisory roles, mostly for environment and human rights bodies, including as previous Chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. He also chaired the Scottish Parliament’s short life working group on annual targets; sits on the advisory groups for Air Passenger Duty & ScotRail, and the board of Transform Scotland amongst others. He is a member of the Arctic Strategy Forum & Chair of Perth City Leadership Forum & is heavily involved in promoting climate change solutions, recently launching a Climate Solutions Qualification for businesses and managers in conjunction with the Institute of Directors, Edinburgh Uni’s ECCI and Stirling Uni Management School. He is Co-chair of the independent inquiry Farming for 1.5 Degrees.