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Dr Richard Eade
Richard was a senior manager within IT departments at Nottingham Trent University (and its predecessors) for 28 years, being involved in multi-million pound tendering exercises through to solving simple help desk queries. Since retiring he has become involved with the NHS, chairing his doctor's Patient Participation Group and until recently on the Patient Reference Group of the Nottingham West Clinical Commissioning Group. He is also vice-chair of the governing body of Sunnyside Spencer Academy and chairs the Finance and Business Development Committee, complementing many years' service as a trustee of The Nottingham Bluecoat School Foundation Trust, activities at St Barnabas Church, Chilwell including managing their Food Bank, and as a governor of the former Bluecoat School. To this vast experience, Richard adds skills in governance, strategic development and process management.
Ian Griffiths
Ian has been involved in the governance of Church schools and academies both at a secondary and primary level for over 30 years. Ian is currently Vice Chair of the Diocesan Board of Education and is a member of Southwell & Nottingham Educational Trust.
Most of his working life was spent working in the higher education sector primarily as an IT Director but in his later career running companies on behalf of universities.
Outside of education he is currently a trustee of Papplewick & Linby Village Hall and has just joined the Independent Monitoring Board for Morton Hall Immigration Referral Centre. Formerly he was for 10 years Chair of Papplewick Parish Council. As a committed Christian Ian has held a number of roles for his local Church. After over 50 years of playing League cricket Ian is now appointed as a panel cricket umpire.
James Hart
James is a partner at Freeths Solicitors with special expertise in the local government sector, advising on such subjects as property acquisition and disposal, regeneration and development. He represents the Nottingham Bluecoat School Foundation to the Trust.
Revd Canon Tim Pullen
Tim has been the Rector of Wollaton since 2013 and prior to that was Sub-Dean of Coventry Cathedral. Whilst in Coventry he was Chair of the Bluecoat CofE School and Music College. For 10 years prior to training for ordination Tim worked in the business sector. Tim is a member of the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham Board of Education.
John Loughton
John was born and grew up in Southwell, attended the Minster Grammar School and was ultimately appointed as Head Boy. He returned to the school as a teacher of Mathematics before taking up a number of posts in other local schools, culminating in his appointment as Head of The Joseph Whitaker School in Rainworth, a large 11-18 mixed comprehensive. He served there as a successful Head for almost 20 years.
Part of his vision for the school was to promote it as a specialist sports college using his love of sport as a means of raising academic achievement and promoting a healthy lifestyle to young people. John's involvement in sport encompasses serving on the national Rugby Football Union Council for six years from 1995, just as the amateur game became professional.
He has served on the Diocesan Board of Education and is currently a member of the Southwell & Nottingham Educational Trust.
In 2013 he was appointed to the Cathedral College of Canons as an Honorary Lay Canon where he hoped specifically that his experience of education would allow him to make a contribution to easing some of the considerable challenges that our young people face in difficult economic times.
Anthony Darby
Tony is a retired secondary headteacher, an Ofsted trained inspector and education adviser for the Centre for British Teachers (CfBT) and a School Improvement Partner. During his career of almost 40 years Tony held most senior management roles, academic and pastoral, in Church schools and state schools. He has weathered several challenging educational changes, many of which have proved beneficial to pupils and staff. He has taught in Liverpool, Kent and Lincolnshire Education authorities.
Tony serves currently on the East Bingham Deanery Synod, Southwell and Nottingham Diocesan Synod, the Diocesan Board of Education, and as churchwarden of his local parish of St Mary the Virgin, Plumtree. He is an unpaid Director of Solo Support Services based in West Bridgford; a national company that supports members of the community who receive personal health and social care budgets to manage their own support provision and carers. In his spare time Tony continues to enjoy cycling and particularly singing, a passion of his since his formative years as a chorister in a Cathedral choir in London.
Sian Hampton (CEO)
Sian has over 25 years' experience working in schools in the East Midlands region. She has been active in school leadership for almost 15 years and is a designated National Leader of Education. Sian has overseen the development of Bluecoat Academy from one school to six including a newly opened primary school. In less than three years the sponsored school in the Multi Academy Trust has moved from Special Measures to Good and there are plans for two free schools and more primary schools to join this growing MAT.
Declan McCauley
Declan has experience of teaching across both the primary and secondary sector. Throughout his career he has held several senior roles. He was a headteacher for 14 years of a Church School. Declan has previously worked as a School Improvement Partner for two different Local Authorities and as such has vast experience of working with schools in a variety of contexts. Declan has been a section 48 inspector for Birmingham Diocese.
Declan has led many section 5 and section 8 inspections on behalf of Ofsted since 2009. He worked in a senior position for an inspection service provider for five years where he was responsible for training lead inspectors. As such Declan has vast knowledge of the Ofsted Inspection Framework. Currently Declan heads up the school improvement team for the Derby Diocesan Academy Trust having worked for the trust since 2015.
Margaret Oldroyd
Margaret lives in West Bridgford and worships at St Paul's Church, Boundary Road. She is a Chartered Librarian and worked in colleges and universities where she managed learning resources services, ran information skills courses and delivered professional training sessions. In the second part of her career, she was involved exclusively in staff management and development and quality enhancement projects at De Montfort University where she was also a qualified NVQ Assessor and Verifier.
She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and has a Masters in Library Management. She was particularly involved in the assessment of both professional and para-professional qualifications and Fellowship Awards and was Chair of the Institute's Chartership Board.
She is a magistrate on the Nottingham Bench. Her thirty years as a member of Soroptimist International has given her the opportunity to pursue her passion for education as the key to improving the lives of women and girls worldwide. She served on the Federation Management Board for eight years and in 2014 was President of the Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. She is Secretary of the Nottingham Soroptimist Club and is supporting Soroptimists across Africa to plan the formation of their own Federation. Before joining the Archway Board of Trustees, Margaret spent two years as a governor of Nottingham Emmanuel School.
Alison Taylor – Chair
Working for John Lewis, Alison had a reputation for developing and leading empowered, motivated and happy teams, and for delivering commercial success through outstanding customer service across a wide range of merchandise groups. For the last few years ahead of her retirement Alison, as part of the Divisional Customer Service Steering Group, developed and delivered a strategy to ensure customers received a consistently outstanding experience, regardless of how they chose to engage with the business be that in person, online or by telephone, recognising the importance that good service has in building trust. During this period John Lewis received many accolades for outstanding customer service.
Before becoming a Trustee, Alison was a Governor at Bluecoat Primary Academy, being Chair for two years.
Dr Sameedha Rich-Mahadkar – Vice-Chair
Sameedha specialises in strategy design and delivery of novel planning approaches. She has over 10 years' experience within strategic healthcare planning, through several consultancy and senior managerial roles. She has completed her doctoral studies on healthcare infrastructure planning and optimising decision-making processes (a European Physical Sciences Research Council funded project). She has published several journal and conference papers.
Sameedha is currently the Deputy Director of Strategy at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust. implementation of the Trust's specialised service plan to secure the Trust's position as the leading centre for specialised services. Prior to joining NUH in 2013, Sameedha worked with a range of clients across Europe, India and the UK and delivered multi-million pound business cases, regional public consultation and strategic reconfiguration projects.
Sameedha is passionate about developing others and has been a guest lecturer in a number of leading global institutions including University College London and Loughborough University. She has been a Board member of the Olympic legacy project National Centre for Sports & Exercise Medicine based at Loughborough University. She is currently a Board member of the Loughborough University Alumni Association, contributing as an international ambassador.
Dr Chris Rolph
Chris is the Director of the Nottingham Institute of Education at Nottingham Trent University, where he has worked since 2016. He contributes to the training of both Primary and Secondary teachers, teaches on joint honours and masters courses, and supervises several doctoral students. His research interests include school leadership, accountability and performativity.
Chris trained as a physics teacher after completing a PhD in astrophysics at Durham. He taught in the north east before moving to Lincolnshire, where he was a secondary headteacher for 13 years, leading 3 schools, each with its own challenging circumstances. During this time he chaired a local Education Improvement Partnership which transformed education across 9 partner providers, managed multimillion pound building projects, and sat on the SSAT's National Headteacher Steering Group.
Chris still lives in Lincolnshire, where he is a member of a Methodist Church and a sailing club. What spare time he has he likes to spend outdoors with the family.
Stuart Stanyard
Stuart qualified with PWC in Nottingham, moving then to Hong Kong for 4 years. On return Stuart joined Rolls-Royce PLC and performed a number of increasingly senior finance leadership roles over 21 years in the UK and overseas. He brings substantial expertise in commercial / customer / change management and developing teams.
He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and spent two years as an elected parent governor of Edwalton Primary School.
In his spare time Stuart plays competitive tennis in the Nottingham tennis leagues, as well as enjoying hiking and snowboarding.
Malcolm Trobe CBE
Malcolm Trobe is the former Deputy General Secretary for the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL). He worked full-time for ASCL for 10 years until August 2018 including a fifteen month period as Interim General Secretary in 2016/17. Before that he was the headteacher of Malmesbury School in Wiltshire for 17 years. He also taught in schools in Hampshire and Dudley and for five years was the TVEI (Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative) Director for Dudley MBC. He was ASCL president in 2006-07. He now works as an independent educational consultant specialising in leadership, strategic and financial planning and curriculum. Malcolm works as a consultant for the Executive Leadership Consortium as programme director for their NPQ Executive Leadership programme. He has worked on many national education groups and in June 2019 was appointed by the Secretary of State for Education to chair the review group on Headteacher Standards. He was awarded a CBE for services to education in the Queen's Birthday Honours list 2016.
Karen Wyer
Karen is a marketing leadership professional with over 25 years' experience developing and delivering successful marketing strategies for the private and not for profit sectors. Formerly Deputy Director of Marketing at Sheffield Hallam University, Karen retired in May 2018 and joined the Archway Board of Trustees shortly after that. Karen has significant experience of leading and implementing change management and also has a track record of successfully developing and empowering people to achieve their full potential.
Nicola Bell
Nicola has worked in large, corporate organisations for over 25 years. Currently Nicola is HR Director, Global Brands and International Retail in a multinational based in Nottingham. Her role is to support, challenge and enable the most senior leaders, their leadership teams and organisations to ensure optimum performance and success.
Being a mother of 3 boys (ages 15, 12 and 10) Nicola has extensive experience of schools and education from a parental perspective. In her role as a trustee Nicola sees the opportunity to be able to use the professional skills she has developed to benefit the lives of a diverse community of pupils, parents and staff.
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