Trust Governance

The purpose of governance is to provide confident, strategic leadership and to create robust accountability, oversight and assurance for educational and financial performance.

Our board has three core functions:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the performance management of staff
Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent

Structure of The Mead Academy Trust

The governance structure for The Mead Academy Trust is comprised of the following groups:

The Academy Trust Members Board
The Board of Trustees
The Resources Committee
The School Effectiveness Group
An Academy Advisory Group for each school

More information about our individual schools’ Academy Advisors:

Castle Mead Academy Advisory Group

River Mead Academy Advisory Group

The Mead Academy Advisory Group

View our Trust's key documents

Members

The Board of Members comprises:

Christian Checkley (as Chair of Trustees)

Peter Finn

Jon Clarke

Tracey Wright

Member

QUALIFICATIONS:

BA(HONS) Education And Maths �...Read More

Lesley Shellard

Trustee – Chair of River Mead Academy Advisory Group

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Head Teacher at Southwick C...Read More

Jon Clark

Member

QUALIFICATIONS:

Member of The Royal Institut...Read More

Mike Haines

Trustee – School Effectiveness

QUALIFICATIONS:

BA (Hons.) English, Clare Colle...Read More

Jayne Bullock (Chair of Castle Mead Advisory Group)

Trustee - Chair of Castle Mead Academy Advisory Group; Safeguarding/sen Lead

QUALIFICATIONS:

EdExcel Level 5 BTEC, Profes...Read More

Kim Baker (Lyne) (Co-Chair of The Mead Advisory Group)

Trustee – Co-chair of The Mead Academy Advisory Group

Qualifications:

Cert Ed. Cheltenham. Human Scie...Read More

Lyssy Bolton (CEO)

Trustee – Ceo/Executive Head Teacher/Accounting Officer

QUALIFICATIONS:

Dip HE; English & Geogra...Read More

Peter Finn

Member, TMAT Resources Committee

QUALIFICATIONS:

Chartered Institute of Manag...Read More

Bob Quick (Vice Chair), OBE

Trustee; Vice Chair of Board of Trustees, Chair of Resources Committee

QUALIFICATIONS:

Graduate Diploma in Aeronaut...Read More

Christian Checkley (Chair of Trustees)

Member; Chair of the board of Trustees, Tmat Resources Committee

QUALIFICATIONS:

MSc (Distinction) Engineerin...Read More

Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees comprises:

Christian Checkley (Chair of Trustees)

Bob Quick (Vice Chair)

Peter Finn (Resources Committee)

Lyssy Bolton (CEO)

Kim Baker (Co-Chair of The Mead Advisory Group)

Jayne Bullock (Chair of Castle Mead Advisory Group)

Mike Haines (School Improvement)

Lesley Shellard (Chair of River Mead Advisory Group)

Invited attendees (no voting rights):

Karen Austin (Headteacher, River Mead School)

Mel Jacob (Co-Chair of The Mead Advisory Group)

Kirsty Jamieson (Head of Inclusion)

Lindsay Palmer (Head of Teaching School)

Harriet Phillips (Acting Head of School, Castle Mead School)

Mark Stenton (Headteacher, The Mead)

Resources Committee Members

The Resources Committee comprises:

Bob Quick (Chair, Resources Committee)

Peter Finn

Christian Checkley

Lyssy Bolton

Those who attend Resources Committee meetings:

Sheila Pedler (Staff, School Business Manager)

Mel Jacob (Staff, School Business Manager)

Gina Shanahan (Staff, School Business Manager)

Kerry Thain (Staff, School Business Manager)

School Effectiveness Group

Lyssy Bolton

Jayne Bullock

Lindsay Palmer

Kim Baker

Mike Haines