Amma Birth Companions, GSK IMPACT Awards 2024
Maree was elected to the VHS Board in November 2025.
She is CEO of Amma Birth Companions, a Glasgow-based charity providing support to women facing disadvantage during pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.
Maree has more than 20 years’ experience in Scotland’s third sector, with more than a decade as a charity leader, and joined Amma in 2022 after her role as CEO of the International Network of Street Papers (INSP), a Glasgow-based NGO supporting a network of over 100 social enterprise organisations in 35 countries worldwide.
In 2024 she co-chaired the Scottish Government’s Short Life Working Group on Racialised Health Inequalities in Maternity Care, and in 2025 she sat on the development group for Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Maternity Care Standards. Maree is passionate about poverty alleviation, inequality, women’s rights, health inequalities, perinatal health, and reproductive justice.
