The Jimmy Reid Foundation is supported by a group of high-profile patrons
Aamer Anwar
Human rights lawyer
Dr Richard Dixon
Director of Friends of the Earth Scotland
Winnie Ewing
Former MP
Sir Alex Ferguson
Former football manager
Jackie Kay
Poet, novelist, playwright and Scots Makar
Len McCluskey
General Secretary, Unite the Union
Henry McLeish
Former First Minister
Tom Nairn
Writer and academic
Joan Reid
Jimmy Reid’s widow
Grahame Smith
Former STUC general secretary
Elaine C Smith
Actor and entertainer
Ruth Wishart
Journalist and writer
We also acknowledge the inspiration and contributions from the late Iain Banks, author; the late Campbell Christie, former STUC General Secretary; the late Professor Ailsa McKay academic, economist and feminist; and the late Alaistair Gray, artist and writer.