Patron

Born near Dunkeld, Veronica Linklater is married with three children and now lives in Edinburgh. She has a long-standing involvement with the prison service, which began when she was in London. She founded the Butler Trust in 1983 and became an inner London Justice of the Peace two years later.

In 1987, she moved back to Scotland and amongst many other commitments, she became a member of the Children's Panel for Edinburgh South and President of the Society of Friends of Dunkeld Cathedral.

She founded and became Executive Chairman of the New School, Butterstone for educationally fragile children, and also became a Trustee of the Esmee Fairburn Charitable Trust, a major grant making Trust for which she chairs the Social Development Sector.

Patron of the Sutherland Trust and Director of the Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust, she was created a Life Peer in 1997, taking the title of the Lady Baroness Linklater of Butterstone.

As a carer, she is committed to the work of NSF (Scotland) and is delighted to have been appointed a Patron of the Fellowship.