Governance
Lime Trust has the following layers of governance:
- The Lime Trust Members
- The Lime Trust Board
- Committees of the Board - the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee; the Education and Curriculum Standards Committee; and the Academy Councils responsible for school level governance
- The Lime Academy Councils play a crucial role in the life of our academies: understanding, advising, challenging, supporting and encouraging our academies to be outstanding within the umbrella of Lime Trust. Their remit covers outcomes for pupils, safeguarding, health and safety, financial probity and equality and diversity
For further information on the Trust governance structure, please see the Lime Trust Scheme of Delegation.
The above governance layers meet to an annual timetable, receiving reports and scrutinising the activities of the Trust and its academies as appropriate. Our meetings, link Board and school-level governance with key events such as data analysis and reporting, annual target setting, appraisal and budget-setting.
Members
Ann Constanti
Ann Constanti
School leadership consultant
Ann held three substantive headships of London primaries in very challenging circumstances over twenty years, then became a school leadership consultant and a Governor trainer. Ann was a qualified Ofsted Inspector and is a Quality Mark Assessor.
James Sanderson FRSA
James Sanderson FRSA
Headteacher : Forest School in Snaresbrook
James is the Headteacher of the Forest School in Snaresbrook. His qualifications include: BMusPerf (Hons), Elder Conservatorium, BMus, University of Adelaide, FRSA.
Gary Redhead
Gary Redhead
Trustees
Christopher Cole
Christopher Cole
Chair of the Lime Trust Board
Christopher is the Chair of the Lime Trust Board, as well as the Diversity and Health & Safety Lead for the Board. He worked as a headteacher for ten years and is a winner of many awards, including Education Champion of the Year, Windrush 2003 and UBS Teacher of the Year 2007.
Christopher has taught on the Institute of Education’s course ‘Investing in Diversity’, training and supporting headteachers. He has worked with over 300 schools with all stakeholders (Governors, staff and other agencies), developing learning strategies, raising attainment and preparing for inspections.
He has led and facilitated the raising of attainment to high levels in KS1 and KS2. He has helped to raise finance for schools and has managed capital works in various institutions.
Sam Curtis
Sam Curtis
Chair of the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee
Sam is the Chair of the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee of the Board and the Safeguarding Lead for the Board. Sam is a cloud software expert, specialising in Customer Relationship Management, Finance, Budgeting and HR solutions. She is currently CEO & Founder of SECloud Solutions.
She was previously Business Development and Operations Director at School Business Services Ltd (SBS) and a Member of its Board, guiding the company through two accreditations of ISO14001 and ISO27001, and the subsequent re-accreditation to both standards.
She directly line managed the Senior Leadership Team, providing valued coaching, mentoring and development support, with primary responsibility for the day-to-day running of the UK business and its seventy five staff members. Sam holds the CIPFA Level 7 Advanced Professional Certificate in School Financial and Operational Leadership in Education.
Gillian Gadd
Gillian Gadd
People Operations
After graduating from university I started my career in the finance industry but quickly made the move to tech and Google and have been there ever since.
Throughout my time there I have done a variety of positions within People Operations specifically the talent area.
Roles include Recruiter for the European Finance team; leading teams working on Recruitment Operations for EMEA (running all the interview coordination, interviewer training, analytics etc); Student Development and Engagement (specific focus on female underrepresentation in software engineering) and most recently, leading a team of recruiters growing the software engineering teams for UK, Ireland, France and Africa.
I have also done some projects with the HR business partner team and completed my HR Management Diploma in 2011.
Amanda Jennings
Amanda Jennings
Chief Executive Officer
Amanda is Chief Executive Officer of Strive4 Academy Trust and has a breadth of strategic leadership experience and skills across the education sector.
Amanda has particular expertise in teaching and learning, safeguarding and developing leaders and this has led to school improvement work both locally and nationally.
Amanda has 30 years’ experience in education, with over 18 years’ experience of being a headteacher; she has held many positions of responsibility and leadership within schools.
Amanda holds both the National Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership and the National Professional Qualification for Headship.
She currently provides support to other schools and trusts through the DfE TSIO.
Bill Leask
Bill Leask
Strategy/product consultant
Bill is a strategy/product consultant and leadership development coach. After a first career in journalism, PR and publishing, Bill moved into technology development and product management in the media and finance sectors.
As it became increasingly accepted that people are any organisation’s primary asset, Bill developed a parallel career as a coach to help maximise fulfilment of potential during a period of great change in working life.
He has also provided PR and marketing support for third sector organisations and is a Generation Success mentor.
Neil Miller
Neil Miller
Deputy CEO
In his role as Deputy CEO, Neil oversees the operations and performance of London South East Academies Trust’s nine schools, which include Alternative, Special and Mainstream academies.
Prior to joining the teaching profession, Neil was a member of the armed forces where he gained valuable life and leadership skills, shaping his determination, drive and resilience.
With over 25 years’ experience in multiple local authorities and counties as a teacher, senior leader, head teacher, executive head teacher and now Trust DCEO, Neil has a proven track record of school improvement and systems leadership.
Neil is passionate about ensuring every child has access to the right educational setting for them, enabling them to achieve their full potential at school and ultimately in life.
Neil is also passionate about developing his staff teams to ensure they are able to achieve their very best not only as successful teachers, support staff and leaders but also great role models for the children and young people they serve.
Holly Morgan-Smith
Holly Morgan-Smith
Project Director
Holly works at the Department for Education as a Project Director.
She has extensive experience across the public sector, working for both local and central government to successfully manage large capital programmes, as well as leading the implementation of complex policy initiatives.
In 2017-18, Holly worked for Ark Schools, one of the highest achieving academy groups in the country, as Head of Projects.
Colin Sarre
Colin Sarre
Member of Lime Trust
Colin joined the merged Lime Trust Board after two years on the Hornbeam Academy Trust Board, where he was Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee in 2018-19.
He brings nearly forty years of City experience, working in financial markets, where he was widely acknowledged as the #1 trader in UK Government Bonds.
He is also a Non-Executive Director (RICS Finance Committee), a Charity Trustee (WAVE Trust), an accredited community mediator, and also a mentor for university students.