Meet the Impact Arts Youth Trustees!

Tue 27th January 2026

Impact Arts has appointed two Youth Trustees to join our Board. We’re thrilled to welcome Humna Bukhari and Rachel Maclean.

As an arts charity delivering life-changing creative programmes to people of all ages, including children and young people, it’s important to us to ensure the voices of young people are central to our governance and strategy.

We are committed to building a Board that reflects the diversity of the people and communities that we serve and we value the benefit of having different experiences and points of view amongst our Trustees.

We are actively trying to increase the diversity of our Board and specifically to put young people at the heart of our organisational decision-making. This aligns with the re-establishment of the Sketchy Youths, our Youth Steering Group.

Get to know our new Youth Trustees!

Humna Bukhari

Why did you want to join Impact Arts Board as a Youth Trustee?

After interning for Impact Arts, I felt a need to join their mission in one way or another.

The way Impact Arts does things is inclusive, bold and, well, impactful! I’d love nothing more to be a part of that once again.

Tell us more about yourself and your experience prior to joining Impact Arts as a Trustee.

I am a psychology graduate who is currently working as a carer. Aside from that, I make and sell art as a hobby.

What do you hope to achieve as a Youth Trustee for Impact Arts?

I learned so much during my time, and am grateful to have the chance to keep that going!

Rachel Maclean

Why did you want to join Impact Arts Board as a Youth Trustee?

I’ve followed along with Impact Arts and the projects for a while now, having taken part in a similar project myself before coming to university. Access to free creative arts projects gave me the push to go and study design further. Without access to these projects, I would have never attended university, which has opened up so many doors for me and allowed me to pursue design professionally, which is something I never thought I would do.

I wanted to join the Board with the hope that I would be able to share my opinions and perspective, which hopefully will help improve the representation of young people, especially young people who rely on free creative arts projects as a gateway, whether that’s to go on to study further, find employment, or just to foster creativity.

I really believe that being creative and getting involved in the arts can make a massive difference to your life, from the positive effects arts engagement can have on your mental health and wellbeing to the transferable skills that can be gained through engagement in creativity and creative projects.

Tell us more about yourself and your experience prior to joining Impact Arts as a Trustee.

I’m currently a graphic design student at Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, hoping to pursue print design and photography. I love anything to do with art and design, and I’m a big outdoors person. I spent a lot of time when I was younger doing environmental volunteering, which gave me a massive love and appreciation for the environment and a strong interest in conservation, something that has stayed with me and influenced the way that I work within design.

I’ve worked within fundraising and social media within university recently as part of the Dundee University Sign Language Society, having been our social media coordinator for two years now, and fundraising coordinator for a year!

I originally joined the society to learn basic BSL and gain more awareness about D/deaf culture. But over the last few years, I’ve been able to learn about fundraising, raising money for charity, social media, and, most importantly, got to meet and work with amazing charities and people within the D/deaf community.

What do you hope to achieve as a Youth Trustee for Impact Arts?

I hope that, alongside Humna, I will be able to provide a different and unique opinion to the Board and be able to bring a different perspective, one which will hopefully be valuable and aligned with other young people involved in Impact Arts. I want to listen to those participating in projects and the people around me within the charity, making sure I understand their perspective and opinion, so I can better communicate this at a Board level.

I hope to make sure that young people within projects feel listened to, valued, and know that their opinions and experiences within the charity are important and that they are being communicated at a Board level. Nothing is more valuable than a lived experience, and the people who take part in projects have the most perspective and knowledge to give, and this will be what I focus on within my time on the Board. 

Thank you to Rachel and Humna for sharing your stories. The whole team at Impact Arts is thrilled to have you both onboard.

Impact Arts is a leading arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering life-changing creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.  

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