Trustees

Deirdre Bailey

Chair of Trustees

Deirdre Bailey had a 40 year career in Children’s Social Care. Deirdre supported families in crisis, worked with children in the care system, children who were moving on to adoption and trained and prepared prospective adopters. She also provided support to adopted adults who were hoping to access their birth records and make contact with their birth families. Deirdre is also an established school governor, as chair of governors for the last 22 years in a busy primary school and has been an active partner in Safeguarding, Headteacher Performance Management, Staff recruitment and monitoring Teaching and Learning. Deirdre is also Vice Chair at another busy Primary School where she has a lead role in Safeguarding, Headteacher Performance Management, Staff recruitment and monitoring Teaching and Learning.

Skill Set: Safeguarding, school governance, education, training, and compliance

Appointed Date: 3 December 2019

Appointed By: Ordinary Resolution

Term in Office: 8 Years

Hugh Figgess

Trustee

Hugh Figgess has 27 years` experience as a teacher and head teacher. During the last 20 years his work has focussed on school leadership and leadership development. Hugh worked with Ofsted, Leeds Becket University and CCDU, a Leeds based education consultancy where he was the National College for School Leadership programme leader for NPQH and Team Programmes across the Yorkshire and Humber region. In recent years Hugh has worked with a wide range of primary school leadership teams supporting them to enhance leadership within their teams and across the school.

Skill Set: Education and leadership

Appointed Date: 3 December 2019

Appointed By: Ordinary Resolution

Term in Office: 8 Years

Brent Fitzpatrick MBE

Trustee

Brent Fitzpatrick MBE runs a financially successful business career spanning 26 years, his MBE for his service to school governance, his being a National Leader of Governance and a Trustee with the Birmingham based National Governance Association.

His business specialises in oil and gas production, oil services, Insurance, technology, clean energy and international property development. He has long time experience of chairing a number of governing bodies and is trustee role at Dixon’s Academy Trust.

Skill Set: Leading companies, managing projects and company mergers, school governance, and strategic financial management of schools

Appointed Date: 1st May 2022 (Reappointed)

Appointed By: Ordinary Resolution

Term in Office: 4 Years

Jumaimah Iqbal

Trustee

Jumaimah has over 13 year’s experience of working as a registered Occupational Therapist and is dedicated to continual improvement. She has worked with children, adults and carers from diverse backgrounds with a range of complex disabilities. Jumaimah manages the Access Team at Braford Council who determine the eligibility of adult social care services in line with the local authorities statutory duties; specialist equipment; adaptations and assessment for discharge. Jumaimah is responsible for the daily supervision of Occupational Therapy staff; HR; risk assessments; performance management; waiting list management; recruitment and liaising with councillors and the complaints department around formal complaints. A key part of her role is to continually improve services in line with the operating model and is currently working on a number of projects.
Jumaimah was a parent governor at for five years at Hollingwood Primary School, she was then voted in as vice-chair and had been re-elected as Chair of Governors for four consecutive years. Jumaimah is committed to ensuring that we provide our children and families outstanding education and a safe and nurturing environment to thrive.

Skill Set: School Governance, human resources and risk management.

Appointed Date: 13 October 2021

Appointed By: Ordinary Resolution

Term in Office: 4 Years

Emma Lister Chartered MCIPD

Trustee

Emma has over 25 years experience working in Human Resources in a number of different industries including hospitality, engineering and manufacturing she is currently the Head of Employee Relations and Policy in the UK for a global facilities management organisation. Emma has been a school governor at a primary school for nearly 15 years, during this time she has been responsible for English Curriculum, Early Years and Headteacher Performance Management and is currently the Chair of Governors.

Skill Set: Human resources, employment policies, industrial relations, employment law, change management, senior leadership, and school governance

Appointed Date: 15 March 2021

Appointed By: Ordinary Resolution

Term in Office: 4 Years

Qia Mahfooz

Trustee

Qia has worked for the last 25 years as a Civil Servant for the Department of Work and Pensions as a Change Manager delivering a number of legislative/ministerial changes across the Departments organisation. She is heavily involved in Performance Management at senior levels and takes seriously the role of delivering value for money using public purse.

Qia has also been a skilled school Governor and vice chair of a large primary school.

Here she has monitored School Improvement and played an active role in a number of other key areas including lead role in subject areas, recruitment of staff and Headteacher performance management.

Skill Set: Change Management, Compliance, Performance Management, Education

Rizwan Rehman

Trustee

Rizwan is a Partnerships and Programme Manager for Bradford Council with the Education, Employment and Skills Service. He manages multi-million pound employability provision and has over 20 years experience of working with the local government. Rizwan has developed strategic partnerships and represented the Local Authority on a range of platforms - locally, regionally and nationally. He has qualifications in Public Finance, Accountancy, the Institute of Personnel Development and has an MSc in Diversity Management. Most recently, he has completed a programme on Trust Chair's Leadership from Confederation of Trusts. Rizwan is highly interested in promoting education and learning and using his contacts as an alumni of Bradford University he assists young people in seeking support in developing learning pathways. Governance, accountability and ensuring best outcomes are achieved for young people is of particular interest to Rizwan

Skill Set: FInance, diversity management, governance and leadership

Appointed Date: 13 October 2021

Appointed By: Ordinary Resolution

Term in Office: 4 Years

Dianne Richardson

Trustee

Dianne has worked in Education in Bradford for over 30 years. Dianne has worked in many primary schools in Bradford including Green Lane; Tyersal and Fagley Primary Schools. In 1996, two years after joining Girlington First School, Dianne secured the Deputy Head post there. She had a great involvement in the transition of moving from a ‘First’ school to a Primary. Girlington was identified as a ‘Beacon’ school in 1999, which enabled them to support other schools in school improvement.
Dianne holds a number of qualifications including a Diploma in Education Management and NPQH. In 2002, Dianne secured the post of Headteacher at Swain House Primary School, where she moved the school from special measures to satisfactory in 2004. In 2009 the school achieved a good rating. At Swain House there is a resourced provision for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Pupils which Dianne is fiercely proud of and promotes an inclusive philosophy with all the children. Dianne also brings with her as Trustee of Pennine Academies Yorkshire, strong relationships she has developed over the years with organisations such as BPIP, School’s Forum, Shanidar Teaching School Alliance and Bradford Opportunity Area.

Skill Set: Education, safeguarding, leadership, and problem solving

Appointed Date: 10 October 2021

Appointed By: Ordinary Resolution

Term in Office: 4 Years

Penny Silson

Trustee

Penny Silson worked for the NHS as a nurse and senior manager principally at Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust for 37 years. Penny's roles had a massive remit: managing wards; doctors; nurses; delivering high quality care to all patients; achieving all NHS targets; managing budgets; ensuring sound financial controls were in place; optimising all resources and developing innovative services with strong, robust business plans to ensure strategic and operational goals were met. Never one to stand still she undertook a Diploma in Business Management and a Masters in Organisational Change. Alongside this she became a Magistrate at Bradford Courts specialising in the family courts and she thoroughly enjoyed the 10 years she spent on the “bench”. In 2015 Penny joined the governing body at Clayton village Primary School, at that time a school “ requiring improvement“ she took over as chair later that year. Claytons journey was quite remarkable and through sheer hard work , vision , passion and commitment they achieved a “ solid good “ at the last Ofsted inspection. Penny has been the designated governor for safeguarding at CVPS and is also the safeguarding officer for ST Johns Church Clayton. Penny's passion, love and care she had whilst working in the NHS has been transferred to working within the educational establishment. Penny firmly believes “ Every Child Matters “ and is entitled to and deserves a first class education, in a happy, safe and inclusive environment.

Skill Set: Managing People, Financial and Risk Management, Business Planning , Managing Organisational Change and Leadership.

Appointed Date: 18 May 2022

Appointed By: Ordinary Resolution

Term in Office: 4 Years