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 Trustee of South Essex Academy Trust Vine Schools Trust Governance Lead TiB member at Southminster Primary School LSB member at St Cedd’s Primary School SIB Member at Grange Primary School TiB Member at Tillingham Primary School LSB Member at Rolph Primary School SiB Member at Wickford Primary School SiB Member at Hogarth Primary School IEB Member at Wimbish Primary School LSB Member at Great Clacton Juniors School LSB Member at St Andrew’s Weeley LSB Member at Latchingdon
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	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	None	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	None	None
Mrs K Jones	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
Mrs T Boothman	Chair of Local Governing Body	Attended
Mr D Hardman	Local Governor	Attended
Mrs C Holdaway	Local Governor	Attended
Ms R Everett	Local Governor	Apologies
Ms L Dale	Local Governor	Apologies
Ms K Siggery	Local Governor	Attended
Ms B Fairhead	Local Governor	Attended
Mrs D Fawcett	Headteacher – St Andrew’s	Attended
Mrs K Jones	Headteacher – Great Clacton and Rolph	Attended
Mrs L Webb	Business Manager – Rolph and St Andrew’s	Attended
Mrs K Umney	Business Manager – Great Clacton	Apologies