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Governance
TKAT is a multi-academy trust which was established on 1st September 2010. Its constitution is set out in the Articles of Association and this is shared with individual academies via the Scheme of Delegation. TKAT have, through the Scheme of Delegation, established Local Governing Bodies for each of the Academies.
The Members protect our Charitable and Educational objectives, including the ethos of the Trust. They appoint the Trustees to the TKAT Board, and hold annual and extraordinary general meetings.
The TKAT Members are: Raymond Vooght, Matthew Wilson and The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Company Limited, represented by Quentin Roper.
Please click here to view a PDF of our Structure
For further details including Declarations of Business Interests, please select the sections below for Trustees and Members.
The legal powers and responsibilities of the Trust are held with the TKAT Board Trustees, who are accountable to the Department for Education.
We have a strong Board, with a healthy balance of corporate and educational professionals, who are each able to bring different perspectives and ideas to the table. As a group, the Board sets the overall strategic direction of the Trust.
They scrutinise, challenge and support our educational and operational performance data, stability and emerging risks and opportunities. The Board delegates certain powers and duties to our Local Governing Bodies.
This delegation is explained in our Scheme of Delegation (SoD)
We have a healthy balance of corporate and educational professionals who are each able to bring different perspectives and ideas to the table.
Human Resources Committee
The Human Resources Committee (previously named Remuneration and Nominations Committee) is a committee of the TKAT Board. The Board has established the Committee to support it in its responsibilities for ensuring the highest standards of corporate governance in the remuneration and succession planning of the Chief Executive (CEO) and Senior Managers of TKAT, and oversee people, inclusion and culture strategies. Meetings are held four times a year.
For Terms of Reference please click here
Members: Mrs G Bagley, Mr S Judge, Mrs K Poulton, Miss C Robins OBE, Dr K Roberts.
Audit and Risk Committee
The Audit and Risk Committee is a committee of the TKAT Board. The Board has established the Committee to support it in the discharge of its responsibilities for financial systems, operational controls, governance and risk, including health and safety, at TKAT and all its academies.
For Terms of Reference please click here.
Members: Mr M Swyny (Chair of Committee), Mrs G Bagley, Mr S Box, Mr S Judge
Finance and Sustainability Committee
The Finance and Sustainability Committee (previously named Finance Committee) is a Committee of the Board of TKAT. The Finance Committee meet at least three times a year. The Board has established the Committee to support it in the discharge of its responsibilities for financial scrutiny and oversight at TKAT and all its academies.
For Terms of Reference, please click here
Members: Mr P Baines (Chair of Committee), Mr M Swyny, Miss C Robins OBE, Dr K Roberts
Education Committee
The Education Committee (previously named the Performance and Risk Committee) is a Committee of the Board of TKAT. Meetings are held at regular intervals at least four times a year. The Board has established the Committee to support it in the discharge of its responsibilities to provide a high standard of education and duty of care to every student in its academies within available resources.
For Terms of Reference, please click here
Members: Mr S Judge (Chair of Committee), all Trustees take part in this committee.
Link Trustees
The following Trustees have been appointed to link roles:
- Safeguarding - Mark Swyny
- Whistleblowing - Gaenor Bagley
- SEN - Claire Robins OBE
Our Local Governing Bodies know their schools well and provide Trustees with an independent local voice. They combine a passion to make a difference, with common sense, and a unique perspective. This means their challenge and support compliments how the Board holds schools to account. They have the flexibility to structure and organise themselves in ways that best benefit their community and stakeholders.
The TKAT Board has delegated 4 key responsibilities to Local Governing Bodies:
- Represent the Academy’s local community and stakeholders by ensuring that the Academy’s policies and practice meet the community’s needs. This includes ensuring appropriate and effective parent engagement and communication.
- Ensure that the Academy’s long term vision reflects the needs of its community beyond current postholders and is in line with TKAT’s vision and values.
- Support Directors of Education to improve Academy outcomes.
- Support the school’s Senior Leadership Team to ensure staffing is efficient and effective.
The Local Governing Body of each of the Academies is responsible for fulfilling the strategic and operational governance role in the conduct of the Academy.
Below you will find a list of all TKAT Academies along with links to details on their Local Governing Body.
TKAT Primary Academies |
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Broadfield Primary Academy | Chair: Ciara Coppinger (interim) |
Dame Janet Primary Academy | Chair: Vanessa Ray |
Drapers Mills Primary Academy | Chair: Roger Silk |
East Wickham Primary Academy | Chair: Mike Jeffers |
Front Lawn Primary Academy | Chair: Mia Payne (interim) |
Gray’s Farm Primary Academy | Chair: Daniel Momah |
Heybridge Primary School | Chair: Chris Westall |
Hilltop Primary School | Chair: Helen Scothern |
Horizon Primary Academy | Chair: Natalie Willbourn |
Maldon Primary | Chair: David Churchill |
Napier Community Primary & Nursery Academy | Chair: Matthew Childs |
Newlands Primary School | Chair: Georgina Glover |
Northdown Primary Academy | Chair: Jack Packman |
Pebsham Primary Academy | Chair: Julia Fuller |
Portfield Primary Academy | Chair: Helen Seear |
Pluckley CofE Primary Academy | Chair: Joanne Alexander (interim) |
Ore Village Primary Academy | Chair: Julian van Kan |
Royal Park Primary Academy | Chair: Susan Manzi |
Salmestone Primary School | Chair: Vanessa Ray (interim) |
Seal Primary Academy | Chair: Andrew Jenkins |
Seymour Primary School | Chair: Kim Medhurst |
Shenstone Primary School | Chair: Janine Wooster |
Smarden Primary School | Chair: Claire Summers |
Stapleford Abbotts Primary | Chair: James Lillingston |
Tangmere Primary Academy | Chair: Andrew Jenkins |
The Bewbush Academy | Chair: Jeremy Woodley (interim) |
The Mill Primary Academy | Chair: Ann Woolfe (interim) |
The Oaks Primary School | Chair: Ryan Sallows |
Weyfield Primary Academy | Chair: Latha Parvataneni |
Willow Brook Primary | Chair: Sharon Finegold |
TKAT Secondary Academies |
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Bridgemary School | Chair: Sven Latham (interim) |
Chichester High School | Chair: Jo Bailey |
Cleeve Park School | Chair: Andy Thompson |
Cleeve Meadow School | Chair: Sundeep Hothi |
Debden Park High School | Chair: Dallas Alexandrou |
Havant Academy | Chair: Debbie Hick |
Hylands School | Chair: Peter Travis |
Kemnal Technology College | Chair: Catherine Shepherd (interim) |
King Harold Business & Enterprise Academy | Chair: Helen Chalkley |
Miltoncross Academy | Chair: Sian Brown |
Orchards Academy | Chair: Dick Brown |
Rainham School for Girls | Chair: Kathy Moon |
The Academy, Selsey | Chair: Simon Foster |
Thomas Bennett Community College | Chair: Charlie Chalaye |
Welling School | Chair: Natalie Willbourn |
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 23/24) |
---|---|---|---|
Karen Roberts |
Trustee CEO Appointed by Trustees |
Board HR Committee |
100% 100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024: Member of Summit Learning Trust since 29th September 2020. no transactions with TKAT |
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 23/24) |
---|---|---|---|
Gaenor Bagley Current term: Start: 16/03/17 |
Trustee Appointed by Trustees |
Chair of Trustees Board |
100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024:
|
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 23/24) |
---|---|---|---|
Peter Baines Current term: Start: 16/03/17 |
Trustee Appointed by Trustees |
Vice Chair of Trustees Board Education Finance Committee (Chair) |
100% 100% 100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024:
|
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 23/24) |
---|---|---|---|
Simon Judge Current term: Start: 13/10/2020 |
Trustee Appointed by Members |
Board Audit HR Education |
100% 100% 100% 100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024:
|
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 23/24) |
---|---|---|---|
Mark Swyny Current term: Start: 13/10/2020 |
Trustee Appointed by Members |
Board Education Audit (Chair) Finance |
100% 100% 100% 100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024:
|
Name |
Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 22/23) |
---|---|---|---|
Claire Robins OBE Current term: Start: 13/10/2020 |
Trustee Appointed by Members |
Board Education Finance HR (Chair) |
88% 83% 75% 100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024:
|
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 23/24) |
---|---|---|---|
Stephen Box Current term: Start: 14/11/2023 |
Trustee Appointed by Trustees |
Board Education Audit |
83% 100% 100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024:
|
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 22/23) |
---|---|---|---|
Karen Poulton Current term: Start: 5/12/2023 |
Trustee Appointed by Members |
Board Education HR |
83% 100% 100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024:
|
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 23/24) |
---|---|---|---|
Raymond Vooght Start: 17/08/2010 |
Member |
|
100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024: None |
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 23/24) |
---|---|---|---|
The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Trust represented by Quentin Roper Start: 19/12/2012 |
Diocesan Member |
|
100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024: For Quentin Roper:
The Diocese of Canterbury Academies Company Ltd (DCACL) controls the following educational institutions, none of which have transacted with TKAT.
|
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 23/24) |
---|---|---|---|
Matthew Wilson Start: 26/2/2022 |
Member |
|
100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2024:
|
Name | Type | Responsibility | Attendence % (AC Year 22/23) |
---|---|---|---|
Claire Lee Start: 21/09/2015 |
Company Secretary |
|
100% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2023:
|
There have been no Trustee leavers during 2023/24
Name | Type | Responsibility |
Attendence % |
---|---|---|---|
Sarah Jacobs Start: 13/9/2022 Left: 5/1/2024 |
Member |
|
67% |
Declarations of Interest including transactions to 31st August 2023: |