Trustee & Member Profiles
Gill Howell
Trustee and Chair of the Board of Trustees
Gill has a wide range of experience spanning both administration and education. She was Head of Business Studies at a large 11-18 school in Staffordshire before coming to work in Stoke-on-Trent on...
Sue Thomas
Trustee & Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees
Whilst now mostly retired, Sue has extensive experience of working within the public, private and voluntary sectors in the Midlands, North of England and occasionally elsewhere. She works to...
Andrew Smith
Trustee and Member
Andrew was born in Burslem and after studying law at Cambridge has spent most of his working life in Stoke-on-Trent, including a long spell as solicitor and then Head of Business Services at...
Lorraine Whitehead
Member
Lorraine is an Executive Director at University Hospitals North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) where she commenced as an YTS Trainee at the age of 16. Her first managerial role in the NHS was in Estates...
Catherine Matlock
Member
Catherine is a Pioneer Minister with Lichfield Diocese, Church of England, based in Stoke on Trent. Although a gifted primary school educator herself, Catherine’s mother consistently advised...
Philip Kidman
Member
Philip retired in August 2017 after working in a variety of special schools which, collectively, covered the range of needs as outlined in the SEN Code of Practice. He was a head teacher for 20...
Louise Riley
Member
With over twenty years of extensive experience within education as a school leader, advisor and coach, Louise has a wealth of knowledge supplemented with a real passion for inclusion. Her leadership...
Christopher Tarr
Member
Chris has recently retired after a very long and active career working in a range of business sectors. As a GPO technical apprentice, he rose to the rank of technical officer and also acted as...
Gini Cotton
Trustee
Gini has extensive experience as a HR professional and is fully CIPD qualified. She provides HR support to schools and academies across Stoke-on-Trent as well as neighbouring authorities. Gini has a...
Margaret Tatton
Trustee
Margaret is a retired deputy head teacher; who worked in a large inner-city high school. Prior to senior leadership roles, she was Head of Religious Studies; also teaching history, citizenship and...
Robert Johnstone
Trustee
Robert is currently the Senior Executive Leader of the Orchard Community Trust-MAT. He is an experienced education professional with many years of experience in this field. He is a qualified teacher...
Lorna Maden
Trustee
Lorna Maden has a long history of working in public service and is currently the Director of Finance Business Partnering at the Ministry of Justice. She joined the Civil Service in the early 1990s...
Nick Carter
Trustee
Before recently retiring from teaching Nick worked for 36 years at an Independent School in Newcastle-under-Lyme. During his career at the School Nick had a wide range of responsibilities with the...
Stephen Lawley
Trustee
Steve had a long and active career with BT, starting as an engineering apprentice in Crewe. He worked his way up into management, and over the years through to a number of senior management...
Rosalyn Fagan
Trustee
Ros is an experienced and successful services director whose strong leadership and business transformation qualities have been acquired working within the housing and public sectors over the last 17...
Carolyn Higgs
Trustee
Carolyn has a strong background leading and supporting education, vocational education, workforce training programmes and family support across Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire. She has worked...