Governance
The Inspiring Change Multi-Academy Trust (ICMAT) Governance
The inaugural ICMAT Trust Board meeting took place on the 5th July 2017.
Members
Members have ultimate responsibility for the trust achieving its objectives. They sign off the articles of association and have the power to appoint and remove the trustees. Academy Trusts must have a minimum of three members.
Member Details 2017-18
|
Name |
Status |
Term From |
Term To |
Roles/ Committees |
Declaration of Interest |
Attendance |
|
Donna Dewberry |
Member |
01.06.2017 |
- |
AGM/Members Meetings |
No relevant business interests. |
1 out of 2 |
|
Paul Jackson |
Member |
01.06.2017 |
- |
AGM/Members Meetings |
Executive Principal of the Fort Pitt Thomas Aveling Academy Trust and Principal of Thomas Aveling School |
2 out of 2 |
| Peter Haggerwood | Member | 13-12-2017 | - | AGM/Members Meetings | No relevant business interests. | 1 out of 1 Plus 1 Trust Bd Mtg |
Trustees
Trustees collectively deliver the core functions common to school governance. The trustees must also ensure compliance with company and charity law and with the trust’s funding agreement with the Secretary of State.
The constitution of the board of trustees is set out in each trust’s own articles of association. Academy trusts have almost complete flexibility to design the constitution of their board of trustees as they see fit in order to ensure it has the necessary skills and capacity to carry out its functions effectively. There are very few requirements relating to the constitution of the board of trustees in the department’s model articles of association:
- The board must include at least two elected parent trustees – in a MAT the parents can be at board level or on each local governing body.
- No more than one third of the board can be employees of the trust.
- No more than 19.9 per cent of the board can be local authority associated – i.e. people employed by a local authority (including teachers and head teachers of LA maintained schools) or people who are or have been within the last four years a member of a local authority, where that local authority has a responsibility for education or is a district or parish council where there is a land or other commercial relationship with the trust.
- We currently have a vacancy for a parent/carer trustee. If you are interested in this volunteer role, please see details in the Letters to parents/carers section.
Trustee Details
|
Name |
Status |
Term From |
Term To |
Roles/ Committees |
Declaration of Interest |
Attendance |
|
Caron Johnson |
CEO of the Multi--Academy Trust |
Ex-Officio |
- |
Entitled to attend all meetings |
No relevant business interests. |
5 out of 5 |
|
Claire Delahay |
Trust Business Manager/ Trustee |
01.06.2017 |
31.05.2021 |
Trust Business Manager |
No relevant business interests. Trust Employee |
5 out of 5 |
|
Pam Conibeer |
Trustee |
01.06.2017 |
31.05.2021 |
Chair; Leadership & Management; Member of Finance and Resources Committee |
No relevant business interests. Community Governor at Mereworth Primary School |
5 out of 5 |
| Ros Coen | Trustee | 12.12.2017 | 12.12.2021 | Member of Finance and Resources Committee | No relevant business interests. | 4 out of 5 |
|
Esther Cook |
Trustee |
01.06.2017 |
31.05.2021 |
Teaching & Learning/Progress & Attainment (incl SEN) |
Director of Medway Schools Teaching Alliance |
3 out of 5 |
|
Claire Cooper |
Trustee |
01.06.2017 |
31.05.2021 |
Teaching & Learning/Progress & Attainment (incl SEN) |
Co-founder of Cooper-Daly Solutions |
4 out of 5 |
|
Susan Greenfield |
Trustee |
01.06.2017 |
31.05.2021 |
Safeguarding; Member of Finance and Resources Committee |
No relevant business interests. |
5 out of 5 |
|
Steve Seal |
Trustee |
01.06.2017 |
31.05.2021 |
Health & Safety |
No relevant business interests. |
4 out of 5 |
|
Steve Quenby |
Trustee |
01.06.2017 |
31.05.2021 |
Vice Chair; Member of Finance and Resources Committee |
No relevant business interests. |
4 out of 5 |
| Kim Stedman | Parent Governor/ Trustee |
01.06.2017 | 02.12.2018 | Behaviour and Attendance | No relevant business interests. Son is employed by the Trust. | 4 out of 5 |
|
Vacancy |
Parent Governor/ |
The Trust is currently recruiting for a parent to fill this position |
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Resigned
|
Ros Cohen |
Member Transferred to become a Trustee |
01.06.2017 |
13.12.2017 |
AGM/Members Meetings |
No relevant business interests. |
1 out of 1 Plus 1 out of 1 Trustee meeting |