
Trust & Financial
Athena Schools Trust is a company limited by guarantee, without share capital and with charitable status. It is based in Guildford, Surrey UK and serves children of compulsory school age within the local communities in the management and development of schools offering a broad and balanced curriculum.
Members - register of interests
Current 2020-2021
Fiona Boulton
Date of Appointment: 5 February 2018
Relevant business and pecuniary interests: Board member at Epsom College (1.11.09), Hoebridge Prep School (26.01.12), St Ives Prep School (15.07.13); Head within the United Learning Group.
Donald Hirsch
Date of Appointment: 5 February 2018
Relevant business and pecuniary interests: None
Stephen Ravenscroft
Full name: Stephen Howard Ravenscroft
Date of Appointment: 5 February 2018
Relevant business and pecuniary interests: Stone King LLP London EC1, Partner (5/2006); Bridewell Royal Hospital Godalming, Trustee (3/2015)
Historical (within last 12 months)
Paul Martin
Date of Appointment: 5 February 2018
Date stepped down: 1 December 2020
Relevant business and pecuniary interests:
Details of Trust Board membership
Current 2020-2021
Andrew Scanlan, Chair of Trust Board
1/8/2018 - 31/7/2022 / 7 meetings attended 2019-2020* | ![]() |
Andrew Isherwood, Vice chair of Trust Board
1/1/20 - 31/12/23 / 5 meetings attended 2019-2020* | ![]() |
Kathy Ashford, Trustee
1/1/20 - 31/12/23 / 4 meetings attended 2019-2020* | ![]() |
Jonathan Coles, Trustee
1/10/2018 - 30/9/2022 / 5 meetings attended 2019-2020* | ![]() |
Trevor Grant, Trustee
1/8/2018 - 31/7/2022 / 7 meetings attended 2019-2020* | ![]() |
Campbell Livingston, Trustee
1/1/20 - 31/12/23 / 5 meetings attended 2019-2020* | ![]() |
John Julian (Jack)Mayhew, Chief Executive, Trustee
1/8/2018 Ex officio / 7 meetings attended 2019-2020* | ![]() |
Chetan Modi, Trustee
1/1/20 - 31/12/23 / 3 meetings attended 2019-2020* | ![]() |
Susan Smillie, Trustee
1/8/2018 - 31/7/2022 / 7 meetings attended 2019-2020* | ![]() |
Michael Uzielli, Trustee
1/10/2018 - 30/9/2022 / 6 meetings attended 2019-2020* | ![]() |
Suzanna Woodhouse, Trustee
1/8/2018 - 31/7/2022 / 7 meetings attended 2019-2020* |
* Attendance – in 2019/20 the Board of Trustees met seven times in total.
Note: All Trustees are appointed by the Athena Schools Trust Members.
Historical (within last 12 months)
There have been no changes in board membership in the last 12 months
Details of Trust Board committees
Trust Board Committee Chairs 2020-2021
Education Standards Committee Suzanna Woodhouse, Chair
Finance Committee Chetan Modi, Chair
Joint Governance Council Rob Edwards, Chair
Education Standards Committee 2020-2021 (Meetings attended 2019-20)
Suzannah Woodhouse (4/5)
Jack Mayhew (5/5)
Susan Smillie (4/5)
Kathy Ashford (3/3)
Andrew Isherwood (3/3)
Historical - last year's Education Standard Committee also included:
Trevor Grant Meetings attended 2019-20: 2/2
Andi Scanlan Meetings attended 2019-20: 1/1
Finance Premises and Compliance Committee 2020-2021 (Meetings attended 2019-20)
Andi Scanlan (5/5)
Jack Mayhew (5/5)
Michael Uzielli (4/5)
Campbell Livingston (3/3)
Chetan Modi (1/3)
Historical - last year's Finance Premises and Compliance Committee also included:
Susie Smillie Meetings attended 2019-20: 3/3
Trevor Grant Meetings attended 2019-20: 2/2
Board of Trustees - register of interests
Andrew Scanlan, Chair of Trust Board
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Worpleston Rangers FC (Team manager, Chairman with effect from 2012, 2017)
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
King’s College (Guildford) Football Foundation (Member of project steering group with effect from 12/2018)
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Stoughton Infant School (Spouse is a school employee with effect from 2014)
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
British Airways (Employee with effect from 2014)
Trevor Grant, Vice chair of Trust Board
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
No relevant interests recorded
Katherine Ashford, Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
The Howard Partnership Trust (Multi Academy Trust) (Employee with effect from February 2006)
Jonathan Coles, Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
United Learning Trust -Independent School and Academies Group (Chief executive (Trustee) with effect from 1/2012 (1/2014))
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
ULT Projects Ltd, ULT Trading Ltd. (Director, with effect from 1/2012 (1/2014))
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Princes Teaching Institute (Trustee, with effect from 4/2014)
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Church Schools Trading Company Ltd (Director, with effect from 1/2012)
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Priory School (Banstead) Trust (Director, with effect from 4/2017)
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
King's College (London) (Independent Member of Council, with effect from 7/2019 )
Andrew Isherwood, Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Guildford Education Partnership (Multi Academy Trust) (Relative is employed by the Trust with effect from January 2020)
Campbell Livingston, Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Halow Project (Charity) (Employee with effect from 30/1/2020)
Chetan Modi, Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
No relevant interests recorded
John Mayhew, Chief Executive,Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Guildford County School (Executive Headteacher with effect from 9/2018)
Guildford Education Partnership (GEP Academies) (Chief Executive Officer with effect from 6/2020)
Susan Smillie, Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
British Airways (Employee with effect from 4/1987)
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Rushmoor Sycronised Swimming Club (Management Committee member with effect from 5/2018)
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Swim England (ASA Official with effect from 3/2017)
Michael Uzielli, Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Schools Group – Cogita Ltd (Chief Financial Officer, Director with effect from 6/2016)
Suzanna Woodhouse, Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
No relevant interests recorded
Patrick Overy, Chief Finance Officer
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Institute of School Business Leadership (DfE-Accredited independent SMRA with effect from 3/2019)
Register of Interests - Historical (within last 12 months)
Fiona Davidson, Former Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
FMD Consulting Ltd (Director with effect from 6/2000)
Safraj Ismail, Former Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
No relevant interests recorded
Trust's Accounting Officer - register of interests
Accounting Officer: John Julian (Jack) Mayhew
Register of Interests
Executive Head Teacher
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Guildford County School (school, with effect from 1 Sept 2018)
Executive Head Teacher and Trustee
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Athena Schools Trust (multi academy trust, with effect from 1 Sept 2018)
Chief Executive Officer
Name of organisation (and nature of business, date)
Guildford Education Partnership (GEP Academies) (multi academy trust, with effect from 1 June 2020)
Relationship to Pupils, Staff of Governors
None
Contracts with SCC
None
Date Registered
September 2018
Local Governing Bodies' details & registers of interest & attendance records
Academy Local Governing Bodies
Guildford County School LGB
Sarah Wynde, Chair
Northmead Junior School LGB
Konstanze Hild, Chair
Pirbright Village Primary School LGB
Julia Douetil, Chair
Shalford Infant School LGB
Sarah Hardcastle, Chair
Stoughton Infant and Nursery School LGB
Nicola Buchan, Chair
Note - All Chairs appointed to serve for the current academic year.
For expanded details of the Trust's academies' Local Governing Bodies, their full details, their Registers of Interests and their attendance records, please follow these links to each individual school site:
Admission Arrangements
Please follow the links below for each school's individual Admission Arrangements:
Pirbright Village Primary School
Stoughton Infant and Nursery School
Surrey County Council: how school places were allocated in previous years
Performance Tables
Please follow the links below for each school's individual Performance Tables:
Pirbright Village Primary School
Stoughton Infant and Nursery School
GOV.UK: Find and compare schools in England
Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements)
Schedule 2 (information to be published) of The Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 for the academic year 2019-2020:
Relevant union officials
Total number of Athena Schools Trust employees who were relevant union officials during the relevant period
Guildford County School: 4 (full-time equivalent employees:4)
Pirbright Village Primary School: nil
Northmead Junior School: nil
Shalford Infant and Nursery School: nil
Stoughton Infant and Nursery School: nil
Percentage of time spent on facility time
Four employees, who were relevant union officials during the relevant period, spent 1%-50% of their working hours on facility time.
Percentage of pay bill spent on facility time
Total cost of facility time: £3,600
Total pay bill: £10,595,297
Percentage of the total pay bill spent on facility time, calculated as:
(total cost of facility time ÷ total pay bill) x 100 = 0.034%
Paid trade union activities
As a percentage of total paid facility time hours, the number of hours spent by employees (who were relevant union officials) during the relevant period, on paid trade union activities: 100%
Meeting the Public Sector Apprenticeship Target
The ‘Data Publication’ information, as outlined in ‘Meeting the Public Sector Apprenticeship Target’ (2018), for the Athena Schools Trust academies (31 March 2020), is as follows:
- The number of employees whose employment in England by the body began in the reporting period in question: 336
- The number of apprentices who began to work for the body in that period and whose apprenticeship agreements also began in that period: one
- The number of employees employed in England that the body has at the end of that period: 336
- The number of apprentices who work for the body at the end of that period: one
- The number of apprentices who worked for the body immediately before that period: one
- A headcount on the day before the first day of each reporting period in the target period: 336
- The number of apprentices who began to work for the body in that period and whose apprenticeship agreements also began in that period, as a percentage of the number of employees whose employment in England by the body began in the reporting period in question: 1/336 = 0.3%
- The number of apprentices who work for the body at the end of that period as a percentage of the number of employees employed in England that the body has at the end of that period: 1/336 = 0.3%
- The number of apprentices who began to work for the body in that period and whose apprenticeship agreements also began in that period as a percentage of a headcount on the day before the first day of each reporting period in the target period: 1/336 = 0.3%
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Trust & Financial
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Academies' Funding Agreements