Board of Directors
Trust Governance
The Canterbury Academy is a company limited by guarantee and is an exempt charity. The members hold the Board of Directors to account.
The Governing Body for The Canterbury Academy Trust is now known as ‘The Board of Directors’. The Academy Trust Board consists of 10 directors, including the Executive Principal.
Local governing bodies and committees have been established to allow a more focused approach to monitoring and evaluating the work of the Trust’s component parts. Trustees (Board of Directors) delegate specific responsibilities to its local governing bodies and committees, the activities of which are reported to and discussed at Board of Directors meetings.
The following documents detail the responsibilities and commitments of The Academy Trust Board of Directors:
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Role of the Executive Principal of the Trust
The Executive Principal of the Trust, who also acts as the Accounting Officer has the responsibility, under the board, for the overall day to day management of the Academy Trust, including staffing, finance, conduct and discipline.
Business and Pecuniary Interests
- Register of Business interests from September 2020
- Register of Business interests from September 2019
- Register of Business interests 2018-2019
- Register of Business interests 2017-2018 (Updated November 2018)
Annual General Meeting
Due to circumstances around coronavirus the AGM has been cancelled, Please click on link below should you wish to view the accounts for year ending 31st August 2019
Directors:

Mark Johnstone
Chair

Andy Milton
Chair of Youth Community and Extended Services Local Governing Body and Audit & Rik

Neal Guthrie
Chair of Finance, Buildings and Personnel committee

Anna Wienel
Chair of Secondary Phase Local Governing Body

Jayme Stevens
Chair of Sixth Form Local Governing Body
Dylan Chamberlain
Chair of Primary Local Governing Body
Members:
Mark Johnstone (Chair), Richard Field, Georgina Baker, Andrew Doyle, Judy Keay
Accounting Officer:
Jon Watson, Executive Principal of the Trust.
Local Governors:
The Canterbury Primary School local governing body
Rebecca Brunger, Rachel Cox, Severine Collins, Peri Ramadan
The Secondary School local governing body
Bill Newland, Joanna Bradley, Anne Ainley
The Sixth Form local governing body
Bob Beattie, David Fox, Terry McMahan, Saskia Anley-McCallum
Youth, Community and Extended Services local governing body
Martin Vye, Alastair McKean, Debbie Jackson
Clerk to the Board of Directors:
Should you wish to contact the members, directors or local governors. Please contact Debbie Scott,
Debbie Scott – based at The Canterbury Academy
dscott@canterbury.kent.sch.uk
01227 463971
Vacancies for Non-Executive Directors (Trustees)
The Canterbury Academy seeks to recruit new non-executive directors
Please contact Debbie Scott on 01227 463971 or e mail dscott@canterbury.kent.sch.uk for more information.
The Canterbury Academy Trust, Knight Avenue, Canterbury, Kent. CT2 8QA
