“I knew the effect was going to be good, but never knew it would be superb.”
- Principal describing the impact of the Ambassadors' Academy on her school
Charlotte McClintock
Development Co-ordinator
Charlotte joined the Columba 1400 Team in December 2005, relatively fresh off the plane from Australia. Her role within the organisation focusses around providing IT and administrational support, along with developing and maintaining the Columba website and data management system.
Charlotte was born in London but emigrated to Australia at the age of 18 months with her parents and two brothers. She learned Classical violin from the age of 4, but discovered at university that Guinness goes better with Irish folk music. She graduated from Melbourne University in 2003 with degrees in economics and politics, but in an attempt to avoid a bog-standard finance graduate job, she ran away to the remote North West Chinese desert to teach English to kindergarten children for a year.
She returned to Australia in 2004, but soon found her feet beginning once again to itch, so when the opportunity arose to tour Scotland and the UK with a celtic electronica band, she could hardly turn it down. She fell deeply in love with Edinburgh from the moment she saw it, and moved there in September 2005.
She enjoys the way the role has allowed her to extend her working knowledge of website management and database design (in other words expressing her inner geek!), and hopes to help develop the way Columban Graduates connect with each other using the internet.
Her hobbies include playing fiddle with various musical ventures, tinkering with her computer, and knitting (seriously!)
Charlotte is based out of Columba's Edinburgh office.
messages from our graduates
Hello columbans! We're in school working on our columba presentation tae show our school management team! Missin everybody! We've got a website in the proces of bein made wae pictures n info on our trip tae skye n as soon as its finished we'll write yooz a letter to tell yese the address! Lovin yees n leevin yese! Marge n Flora 2k6 - in the mix!
Lol Me And Mick Just Wanted Tay Say Thanks For A Brilliant Week And You All Have Helped Us See People In A Different Light :D ! We Sat On The Bus Together Talking About It From half 6 To 9 Oclock Lol! Saying We're Going To Miss You All And The Landscape. We Were Just Saying We Would Also Miss Guy The Good Guy To speak To! - Mick & Debbie
hi to all the staff at columba 1400 and a bigger hello to willie stevie and anne. I loved that friday that you come down for the whole day hope to see you again soon love fi Alannah
hi 2 every at columba! i had such an magic time with u all back in november - thanks for givin me the chance! doin ok since gettig back, hope 1 day i can vist again. be in touch soon, Vicky
hey to all the columban staff use were all great and so was the experince thanks for having us and i really enjoyed the music played there - Matt
i just wanted to email us to say hi and how are things going? hi ta abady especially willie - i wld like ta say thanx ta u for sayin that about me, bcse nobody has ever said anyting like dat ta me b4. so i wld like ta say thanx to him and stevie 4 makin da best hot chocolate in the world - Daniel