Trustees at Inspires MAT
Trustees have three core functions of governance:-
- Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
- Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the Trust and its pupils, and the performance management of its staff
- Overseeing the financial performance of the Trust and ensuring best value at all times
Trustees meet monthly.
Barry Collyer - Chair of Trustees
- 10 years+ experience as Governor at Chipping Hill Primary - 5 years as Chair of Governors and 3 years as Vice Chair.
- 25 years experience of Recruitment. Currently Managing Director of a Consultancy - responsible for operations, strategy, finance, HR, recruitment, sales.
Ceri Jones
- CEO of Inspires MAT (formerly Connected Learning)
Cllr Ray Gooding
- Cabinet Member for Education & Lifelong Learning, Essex County Council
- County Councillor, Stansted
- Gooding Technical Services [Consulting Engineer]
- Chair, Essex Housing LLP
- Trustee, Active Essex Foundation
Karen Butler
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Matt Ward
- Experience in marketing, PR and journalism
Matthew Fuller
Matthew has worked in education for the best part of 25-years. He started out at the Department for Education as a policy adviser, before entering the classroom. Working across several settings, he held various leadership positions, before spending 10-years as a headteacher, first at a junior school is Essex and then a primary school with nursery, in Suffolk. He now works for Unity Schools Partnership as a director of education, where in addition to overseeing the performance and strategic direction of several primary schools, he also has responsibility for leading the Trust’s approach to nurturing children and young people’s social emotional mental health.
Miles Carter
Miles has been a Chartered Accountant for over 50 years, working in Education and Multi Academy Trusts for the last 20 years before retiring in 2020. He became committed to education whilst working for a Special Needs residential school with children with severe behavioural and complex other needs. In the Academy sector he was the CFO of a multi-academy trust for over 10 years, which included challenges of bringing new schools into the Trust and the construction of a new secondary school. These experiences taught him the importance of teamwork between Students, Parents, Leadership and Trustees
For the last three years he has undertaken internal scrutiny audits for Academies and is a School Resource Management Advisor (SRMA) with the DFE and completed 12 deployments since gaining accreditation.
Married, with three grown up children, he lives in Suffolk. Main hobbies are aerospace and Duxford, gardening and trying to keep up with the grandchildren!
Bhavika Gorasia
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