Community First Academy Trust - Statutory Information

Statutory Information

The remit for the Board is to:

a) Ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction of the Trust;

b) Hold trust schools and its leaders to account for the educational performance of the schools and its pupils, and the performance management of staff; and

c) Oversee the financial performance of the Trust and make sure its money is well spent.

Directors are appointed by the Members of the Trust in accordance with the Trust Articles of Association.

Click here to see our 2018-19 CFAT Governance Structure

Mr Jack Pugh - Chair

Mrs Jane Chambers - Vice Chair

The role of Members

Meetings of Members are called 'General Meetings' and the decisions they make are called 'resolutions'. CFAT Members meet at least once a year at the Trusts Annual General Meeting (AGM).

The Member’s responsibilities is to ensure the continued adherence of the Trustees to the founding principles of the Trust, namely to secure the best educational standards, personal and academic, for all pupils within the Trusts.

The role of the Trustee

The Trustee’s role is to oversee the strategic direction of the Trust and work with fellow Trustees to monitor the outcomes of pupils and the application of funds to ensure the continued viability of the Trust. It is also the Trustees role to provide constructive challenge so that they can demonstrate that they are effective and efficient managers of the Trust.

Trustees meet at least once a term to discuss key strategic and operational issues.

The Board of Trustees is also supported by a Finance, Audit and Risk Committee that also meets once per term.

The Board of Directors

Name	Director	Date of Appointment	Term of Office	Date of Resignation (if within 12 months)
Members
Mr Jack Pugh	Member & Chair	25th September 2017	4 Years
Mr Neil Bailey	Member	25th September 2017	4 Years
Mrs Elizabeth Greenside	Member	1st September 2018	4 Years
Mrs Karen Ardley	Member	25th September 2017	4 Years	16th July 2018
Mrs Brenda Szwandt	Member	25th September 2017	4 Years
Mrs Angela Holland	Member	1st May 2018	4 Years
Trustees
Mrs Sue Darbyshire	CEO / Trustee	25th September 2017	4 Years
Cllr Carl Sweeney	Trustee	25th September 2017	4 Years
Mr Mark Rowlands	Trustee	25th September 2017	4 Years
Mr Geoff Ashton	Co-opted Trustee	16th September 2015	4 Years	6th July 2018
Mr Simeon Woosey	Trustee	1st March 2018	4 Years
Mrs Ruth Rule-Mullen	Trustee	4 May 2018	4 Years
Mrs Jane Chambers	Trustee & Vice Chair	1 March 2018	4 Years
Clerk
Marie Collier	Clerk - Trust Wide	1st September 2018	annual	info@cfat.org.uk

Finance & Audit Committee

Name	Role	Date of Appointment	Term of Office
John McDonald	Co-opted member on to the committee	1st September 2018	One academic year (Sept 18 to Aug 19)

Directors or Committees with Specific Roles

Name or Committee	Specific Role
Mr Jack Pugh	*Vulnerable Children (including Safeguarding & CLA)
Mrs Ruth Rule-Mullen	Special Educational Needs & Disability
Cllr Carl Sweeney	Pupil Premium and Looked after Children
Mr Mark Rowlands	Health & Safety
Finance audit and risk committee	Finance, audit & risk

Formal Meetings of Members and Trustees

All meetings of both Trust Members and Trustees take place at the Trust's registered office which is Rivington Ave, Platt Bridge, Wigan, WN2 5NG and generally start at 17:00hrs unless stated otherwise.

Minutes of meetings are available for inspection on request from the Trusts registered office.

Record of Attendance - Members and Trustees 2018-2019

P – present

A – apology received and accepted

N – apology received but not accepted

D – did not attend, no apology received

n/a - not required to be in attendance

Name	14.07.18 Meeting of Trustees	11.07.18 Meeting of Trustees	03.07.18 Meeting of Members	22.05.18 Meeting of Trustees	08.05.18 Extraordinary Meeting of Trustees	27.03.18 Meeting of Trustees	31.01.18 Extraordinary Meeting of Members & Trustees
Mr Jack Pugh	P	P	A	P	A	P	P
Mr Neil Bailey	n/a	n/a	P	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Mrs Sue Darbyshire	P	P	n/a	P	P	P	P
Cllr Carl Sweeney	A	A	n/a	P	P	A	P
Mr Mark Rowlands	P	P	n/a	P	P	P	P
Mr Geoff Ashton	n/a	n/a	D	P	P	P	P
Mrs Brenda Szwandt	n/a	n/a	P	n/a	n/a	n/a	P
Mrs Karen Ardley	n/a	n/a	P	n/a	n/a	n/a	P
Mrs Jane Chambers	P	P	n/a	P	P	P	n/a
Mr Simeon Woosey	D	D	n/a	D	D	P	n/a
Mrs Ruth Rule-Mullen	P	P	n/a	P	A	P	n/a

Record of Attendance

Members and Trustees Meeting Schedule 2019-2020

P – present

A – apology received and accepted

N – apology received but not accepted

D – did not attend, no apology received

Meetings of Members

Name	AGM 19^th December 2018
Jack Pugh	P
Liz Greensides	P
Brenda Szwandt	P
Neil Bailey	A
Angela Holland	P

Meetings of the Board of Trustees

Name	18 Sept 2018 Standards	19th Dec 2018 Finance & Resources Agenda	22nd Jan 2019 Standards Agenda	2nd April 2019 Finance & Resources Agenda	21st May 2019 Standards Agenda	16th July 2019 Finance & Resources Agenda
Jack Pugh (Chair)	P	A	A
Jane Chambers (Vice Chair)	P	P	P
Sue Darbyshire	P	P	P
Ruth Rule-Mullen	P	P	P
Carl Sweeney	A	A	A
Simeon Woosey	D	D	D
Mark Rowlands	P	P	P

Meetings of the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee

Name	7th November 2018	13th February 2019	22nd May 2019
John McDonald	P
Jack Pugh	P
Simeon Woosey	D
Ruth Rule-Mullen	P
Sue Darbyshire	P

Member and Trustee Training

All Trustees and Local Academy Boards for all CFAT partner schools are invited for ongoing training. Recent training has included the following:

22nd March 2016 - RAISE online with Tauheedul Education Trust.

17th May 2016 - Using Fisher Family Trust Aspire

21st June 2016 - Performance Tables - Secondary with Tauheedul Education Trust.

13th September 2016 - Narrowing the Gap with Tauheedul Education Trust.

12th & 13th May 2017 – CFAT Annual Conference Review of Governance & Ofsted Framework Training

27th April 2018 - Members and Trustee Review of Governance Workshop

May 2018 - Mandatory trust-wide GDPR training for Members and Trustees

July 2018 – CFAT Annual Conference Review of Governance & Data Training

28th September 2018 - CFAT Trustees Business Planning Workshop

8th & 9th February 2019 - Confederation of School Trusts (CST) MAT Conference

Financial Statement

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Financial Statement to 2018

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Financial Statement to 2017

Financial Regulations Manual

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Financial Regulations Manual.

Management Letter

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Management Letter 2018

Value for Money Statement

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Value for Money Statement

Articles of Association

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Memorandum of Association

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Articles of Association

Scheme of Delegation

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Scheme of Delegation

Funding Agreement

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Deed of Variation of Funding Agreement

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Supplemental Funding Agreement

General Data Protection Regulations

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust General Data Protection Regulations

Trade Union Facility Time

Please click here to view Community First Academy Trust Trade Union Facility Time