Governance

The Vine Schools Trust is a multi-academy trust and is the accountable body for all twenty three of its schools. Therefore, the overarching responsibility for the governance of the Trust and its schools lies with the Vine Board of Directors. They fulfil the three core functions of governance:

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 effective and efficient performance management of staff; and
Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.
To enable the Directors to fulfil their responsibility eight regional Local Schools Board’s work on their behalf and undertake delegated local governance of between two and four schools. Community Boards in each school enable local support and provide information to enable good governance.

The key principle is that all three Boards together with Executive Leaders will provide an aspect of governance the other cannot as set out in this chart.

Governors Declaration of Business Interests

Name	Role	Appointed By	Date of Appointment	Business Declaration	Family Declaration
Mrs T Boothman	Chair of Local Governing Body	Trust	01/01/2021	Self-employed Governance Consultant Vine Schools Trust Trust Governance Lead Hogarth Primary School SIB member Wimbish Primary School IEB member Southminster TIB member/Chair St Cedds LSB member/Chair Grange Primary School SIB member Tillingham TIB member/Chair Rolph LSB Chair Wickford PS SIB member Great Clacton Juniors LSB Chair St Andrews Weeley LSB Chair Latchingdon CofE Primary LSB Chair
Mr D Hardman	Local Governor	Trust	01/01/2021	Board Member and Director – Student CoOps Housing Ltd Member of Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA) Member of Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE) Member of Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (CIA)	None
Mrs C Holdaway – Resigned 24/01/22	Local Governor	Trust	01/01/2021	None	Children are pupil’s at St Andrew’s
Ms R Everett	Local Governor	Trust	01/01/2021	None	None
Ms L Dale	Local Governor	Trust	01/01/2021	Howbridge CE Junior School Headteacher	None
Ms K Siggery	Local Governor	Trust	26/03/2021	Headteacher at Burrsville, part of the Reach2 Academy Trust.	None
Ms B Fairhead	Local Governor	Trust	26/03/2021	Lead Specialist Leader of Education for the Vine Schools Trust	None
Mrs D Fawcett	Headteacher – St Andrew’s	Ex Officio by Vitrue	01/01/2021	Director of Mid Tendring Education Partnership	None
Mrs K Jones	Executive Headteacher – Great Clacton and Rolph	Ex Officio by Vitrue	01/01/2021	None	Husband is a member of another Vine Schools Trust LSB

Governors Meeting Attendance September 2021 to August 2022

Name	Role	22/09/2021	08/11/2021	24/01/2022	07/03/2022	03/05/2022
Mrs T Boothman	Chair of Local Governing Body	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Mr D Hardman	Local Governor	Attended	Attended	Attended	Apologies	Attended
Mrs C Holdaway – Resigned 24/01/22	Local Governor	Attended	Attended	Attended	N/A	N/A
Ms R Everett	Local Governor	Apologies	Apologies	Attended	Attended	Apologies
Ms L Dale	Local Governor	Apologies	Attended	Attended	Attended	Apologies
Ms K Siggery	Local Governor	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Ms B Fairhead	Local Governor	Attended	Attended	Apologies	Apologies	Attended
Mrs D Fawcett	Headteacher – St Andrew’s	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Mrs K Jones	Executive Headteacher – Great Clacton and Rolph	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended