TRUSTEES, MEMBERS & SOME KEY STAFF

Cranford Community College is a Single Academy Trust

The Governing Board of Cranford Community College is the Academy Trust Board. The Senior Executive Leader is Kevin Prunty, who is also the Accounting Officer for the Trust.

The trustees (who are also known as the Governors or the Directors) of Cranford Community College have a duty to ensure that the academy is efficiently run and that the children are given the best possible education.

The trustees have many and varied duties such as establishing the vision, values, and priorities. agreeing the school budget, employing staff, monitoring the performance of staff and pupils, ensuring a high quality of education is provided and ensuring that the school is a safe and happy place to be.

System Leadership

Cranford, through its Chief Executive, as a National Leader of Education, has provided regular support to other schools and the academy continues to act as a hub for best practice, research and innovation.

Cranford Community College led its Teaching School Alliance (TSA) until 31 August 2021. The academy has always supplemented the TSA grant income from its own resources to invest generously in staff training and development at all levels, regardless of Teaching School Status.

The trusthas decided to maintain and fund several legacy strands for staff development following the end of the TSA grant from its resources.

The academy also maintains several legacy strands from its former status as a Language College and is committed to internationalism and global curriculum opportunities, training, study, mutual CPD, and partnership opportunities, such as charitable volunteering overseas.

Constitution

The Academy Trust is a company limited by guarantee and an exempt charity. The charitable company’s memorandum and articles of association are the primary governing documents of the Academy Trust (see links below).

The Trustees of Cranford Community College are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law.

The charitable company operates as Cranford Community College. It is also traditionally known as ‘Cranford College’, ‘Cranford Community’, ‘Cranford Community School’ and ‘Cranford School’.

Trustee Appointments and Current Terms

NAME	APPOINTMENT TYPE	END OF TERM
Jennifer Sandra Lewis (CHAIR)	Appointed by academy members	14 July 2026
Jennifer Elizabeth Lewis (VICE-CHAIR)	Appointed by academy members	13 December 2025
Shafia Haroon	Elected by parents	17 June 2028
Tatinder Virdee	Appointed by Trust board	10 October 2026
Tammy Anne Jenkins	Elected by staff (in accordance with the articles)	1 November 2027
Milton Venancio Ferreira	Elected by staff (in accordance with the articles)	1 November 2027

NOTE: Kevin Prunty, as Senior Executive Officer, currently declines the invitation of Trustees to join the ATB.

Contemporary Trustee and Member details may always be found through this LINK

FORMER TRUSTEES (2024-25): NONE

The Register of Interests of Trustees

Trustee’s name

Name of business / charity / educational institute

Name of interest / interest began

Appointment (by/when)

Shafia Haroon

Home Office UK Border Force,

Sheikhs Estates Ltd,

YYH Sheikhs Ltd

Haroon & Sheikh LLP

Employee

10 December 2015

3 July 2023

14 February 2022

4 April 2019

Elected by Parents

10 December 2015

Jennie Lewis

Berkeley Academy

Berkeley Pre-School

Employee

14 December 2017

Committee Member (Chair) / 14 December 2017

Appointed by the ATB

14 December 2017

Jenny Lewis

None (Retired)

N/A

Appointed by Members

1 April 2011

Taz Virdee

Heston West Big Local

C-Change West London

Elevate Productions

Employee / 10 October 2019 - ENDED 31 August 2022

Employee / 1 September 2022

Volunteer/Director 1 December 2023

Appointed by the ATB

10 October 2019

Tammy Jenkins

Cranford Community College

Employee

1 November 2023

Elected by staff

1 November 2023

Milton Venancio Ferreira

Cranford Community College

Employee

1 November 2023

Elected by staff

1 November 2023

The Academy Trust Handbook states trusts must notify DfE of changes to their governance information within 14 calendar days of the change, through the governance section of the Get information about schools (GIAS) register, accessed via DfE Sign-in. This requirement includes providing direct contact details for all governance roles.

New chairs of trustees may also need to complete a suitability check

Organisational Structure of the Academy Trust

The Academy Trust and the Chief Executive Officer, who is the Accounting Officer, work in partnership on the strategic running of the trust.

The Academy Trust operates strategically and holds the Chief Executive to account for the running of the academy and its related functions.

At least annually, the Trust comprehensively, and formally reviews the thresholds of responsibility and delegation between the Academy Trust, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, The Chief Finance Officer, the Headteachers and other key management personnel.

The Chief Executive Officer oversees the strategic and tactical running running of Cranford Community College.

The Co-Headteachers (and their delegates) are responsible all operational matters and the ‘day to day’ running of the academy, and contribute to tactical and strategic decision making.

The Co-Headteachers (and their delegates) are supported by the Chief Operating Officer who, with the Chief Executive/Academy Trust, acti as ‘critical friends’ and appraising their performance annually within a biennual cycle.

The Chief Executive is responsible for all policy and decision making in so far as it has not been made by the trust and the CEO is accountable to / reports to the Chair and the trust board.

Previously, there has been an annual / biennial cycle of appraisal linked to performance pay for all staff, except the Chief Executive whose performance is rated but whose pay is currently frozen at under £150,000 by mutual agreement and hence not currently subject to performance progression.

However, as performance related pay has now been terminated by Government for most staff, a system of coaching and mentoring is being developed and will be implemented from autumn 2025.

The Academy Trust, supported by the Chief Executive, has responsibility for monitoring its own performance and for its own training. It reports through the Annual General Meeting and is subject to scrutiny by the regulators, including external auditors.

The trust is experienced and has well established protocols for the operation of the Academy Trust, a clear structure, written terms of reference and a regular cycle of meetings and activities.

In 2024-25, the Academy Trust is organised as follows (subject to annual review each Autumn):

Full Academy Trust (Chair: Mrs Jenny Sandra Lewis, JLE)
Regular meetings between the Chair, Vice Chair and the Chief Executive / Accounting Officer (JLE/JLS/KPR)
Finance, Monitoring, Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee (JLS, TVI, TJE, MVE)
Safeguarding, Wellbeing & Health and Safety Committee (JLE, JLS, SHA, TJE, MVE)
Pay and Performance Management Committee (JLE/JLS, plus Review Trustee if required)
Pupil Discipline Committee (Any eligible and trained governors, Chair varies)
Staff Dismissal Committee (Any eligible and trained governors, Chair varies)
Appeals and Complaints Committee (Any eligible and trained governors, Chair varies)
Collaboration Committee - 2 Trustees (voting) and the Accounting Officer (non-voting). Chair rotates 6 monthly with other organisation(s)
Admissions Panel (JLS/TJE)

Please note that Mrs Jenny Sandra Lewis (JLE) and Ms Jennie Elizabeth Lewis (JLS) are NOT related or connected other than both being trustees.

INTERNAL & EXTERNAL SCRUTINY & ACCOUNTABILITY

The academy is subject to external review, scrutiny, and validation through a variety of inspections and audits by a range of agencies including Responsible Officer visits, Audit, the Education and Skills Funding Agency, the Health and Safety Executive, etc. and reports by these agencies are shared with the Academy Trust and published.

The academy (Chief Executive/Academy Trust) also undertakes a variety of evaluations and satisfaction surveys and monitors key performance indicators.

The academy also benchmarks and improves its performance through involvement and leadership of networks of schools and school improvement partnerships.

The ATB has elected to remove all non-statutory references to school inspections whilst calling for a further review of the national system.

The Chief Executive and his nominees normally report to the Academy Trust regularly through Full Academy Trust meetings and committees and meets and communicates regularly with the Chair between Academy Trust meetings on average fortnightly in term time for monitoring of academy performance by the Chair.

The Academy Trust is kept involved through scrutiny of data and benchmarking information, publications, the academy website and its associated social media, through focussed visits and inspections and through invitations to / attendance events, activities, and trustee training. All trustees also have Link Governor roles as follows:

LINK AREAS	LINK TRUSTEE	ACADEMY LINK
Safeguarding	Jennie Lewis	Tammy Jenkins & DSLs
SEND	Jennie Lewis	Kerry Mulhair / Dawn Knock
Health & Safety	Jenny Lewis	Jenny Moir / Rita Berndt
EDI and Anti-Harassment	Milton Venancio Ferreira	Sahrish Shaikh / Amrat Atwal
Staff Workload & Wellbeing	Jenny Lewis	Rita Berndt / Rob Ind
Environment, Sustainability & Accessibility	Milton Venancio Ferreira
Capital Projects & their Procurement	Taz Virdee	Jenny Moir / Homayon Zeary
PSHCE, SMSC	Tammy Jenkins	Milton Venancio Ferreira / Randeep Sidhu
Enrichment, Social & Cultural Capital	Taz Virdee	Randeep Sidhu / Alham Ahmed
Inspection Readiness	Tammy Jenkins	Rita Berndt / Rob Ind
Sixth Form	Shafia Haroon	Chetan Shingadia / Sharan Saroya
Behaviour	Shafia Haroon	Rita Berndt / Rob Ind
Parent Engagement	Shafia Haroon	Milton Venancio Ferreira / HOYs

The Academy Trust monitors the performance of the academy through a variety of means including through its committee and meeting structure, through probing and questioning, through involvement with the academy and through activities such as regular Health and Safety inspections and data monitoring.

The academy trust board has authorised the Chair, when she deems it necessary, to use her powers to deal with urgent needs, reporting any significant use to the Academy Trust as appropriate afterwards through the agenda.

The Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer, Co-Headteachers and Academy Trust and their nominees report to parents, pupils and the community through a variety of means including the academy website, reports, letters and magazines, text messaging, school email, school phones, assemblies, the academy’s Virtual Leaning Environment (MSTeams), SchoolCloud, etc.

The Academy Trust agrees the broad staffing structure at least annually as part of the approval of the budget and delegates to the Chief Executive the flexibility to take opportunities for improvement as they arise or when needs change in the year within the envelope of the agreed annual budget total.

The board also agrees any legal agreements which could be used for any related party transactions and larger contracts such as ground maintenance.

Committees & Panels

The quorum for most committees must be three, two of whom must be trustees, but a committee can involve non-Trustees.

MAIN COMMITTEES

Finance, Monitoring, Audit, Compliance & Risk Committee: The committee must have at least three members. The majority (i.e., at least 2) must be Trustees. Staff Trustees are eligible to serve on this committee.

Safeguarding, Wellbeing and Health & Safety Committee: The committee must have at least three members. The majority (i.e., at least 2) must be Trustees. Staff Trustees are eligible to serve on this committee.

AD HOC COMMITTEES

Pupil Discipline (Ad Hoc): The committee must normally have at least three members. The majority (i.e., at least 2) must be Trustees. Staff trustees are eligible, but the CEO is ineligible to serve on this panel.

Staff Dismissal (Ad Hoc): The committee must normally have at least three members. The majority (i.e., at least 2) must be Trustees. Staff Trustees are eligible to serve on this committee. The CEO is ineligible.

Appeals & Complaints (Ad Hoc): The committee must normally have at least three members. The majority (i.e., at least 2) must be Trustees. Staff Trustees are eligible to serve on this committee. The CEO is ineligible.

Admissions Panel (Ad Hoc): This panel (Any 2 trustees meets to review compliance with the Admissions Policy and Admissions Code of Practice for in-year admissions and the filling of vacancies from the waiting list). Staff Trustees are eligible to serve on this committee.

Pay & Performance Management: This committee needs two non-staff Trustees, and, for the Chief Executive’s Performance Management, a non-staff review Trustee. Committee members must be objective, independent and transparent. Staff Trustees are not eligible to serve on this committee.

Collaboration Committee (Ad Hoc): The organisation of the committee pertaining to the collaboration with other organisations would be set out HERE if any exist currently (None)

Nominated Trustees (Ad Hoc): The chair is routinely delegated authority to make time sensitive decisions on behalf of the academy where necessary, reporting afterwards to the full ATB. Any trustee may be nominated to a delegated task by the full ATB (e.g. Workload and wellbeing trustee, environment and climate trustee, oversight of a capital project, oversight of a procurement process, Equalities and Sexual Harassment Trustee, etc.)

IMPROVEMENT & RESILIENCE THROUGH MODERNISATION & TECHNOLOGY

Some alternative / hybrid meeting arrangements operated in recent years, including using videoconferencing and incorporating electronic meetings and decisions, using communications technologies, etc. to maximise engagement and attendance. Where appropriate, these alternatives to in-person attendance meetings have continued, most notably the first administrative meeting of the year, which takes place electronically in the autumn term, normally from October or November.

DATES OF 2024/25 MEETINGS

FULL ATB MEETINGS

Meeting 1: 24 OCTOBER 2024 (e-meeting open 24 OCTOBER to 17 DECEMBER 2024): COMPLETED

Meeting 2: 18 DECEMBER 2024 (Live / e-meeting after AGM): COMPLETED

Meeting 3: 24 APRIL 2025 (Live / e-meeting): COMPLETED

Meeting 4: 26 JUNE 2025 (Live / e-meeting):

MEETING ATTENDANCE

	e- MEETING 1	MEETING 2	MEETING 3	MEETING 4
JENNY LEWIS	PRESENT	APOLOGIES	PRESENT	EXPECTED
SHAFIA HAROON	PRESENT	PRESENT	PRESENT	EXPECTED
JENNIE LEWIS	PRESENT	PRESENT	PRESENT	EXPECTED
TAZ VIRDIE	PRESENT	PRESENT	PRESENT	EXPECTED
TAMMY JENKINS	PRESENT	PRESENT	PRESENT	EXPECTED
MILTON VENANCIO FERREIRA	PRESENT	PRESENT	PRESENT	EXPECTED
MEETING STATUS	QUORATE	QUORATE	QUORATE

COMMITTEE DATES

Finance, Monitoring, Audit, Compliance & Risk Committee:

20 NOVEMBER 2024: COMPLETED

12 MARCH 2025: COMPLETED

18 JUNE 2025:

MEETING ATTENDANCE

NAME	MEETING 1	MEETING 2	MEETING 3
JENNIE LEWIS	PRESENT	PRESENT	EXPECTED
TAZ VIRDEE	PRESENT	PRESENT	EXPECTED
MILTON VENANCIO FERREIRA	PRESENT	PRESENT	EXPECTED
TAMMY JENKINS	PRESENT	PRESENT	EXPECTED
MEETING STATUS	QUORATE	QUORATE	QUORATE

Safeguarding, Wellbeing and Health & Safety Committee: to be held at 2:30pm on these dates:

5 MARCH 2025: COMPLETED

11 JUNE 2025:

MEETING ATTENDANCE

NAMES	MEETING 1	MEETING 2
JENNY LEWIS	PRESENT	EXPECTED
JENNIE LEWIS	PRESENT	EXPECTED
SHAFIA HAROON	PRESENT	EXPECTED
TAMMY JENKINS	PRESENT	EXPECTED
MILTON VENANCIO FERREIRA	PRESENT	EXPECTED
MEETING STATUS	QUORATE	QUORATE

Pay and Performance Management Committee:

24 APRIL 2025: COMPLETED

4 JUNE 2025:

MEETING ATTENDANCE

NAMES	MEETING 1	MEETING 2
JENNY LEWIS	PRESENT	EXPECTED
JENNIE LEWIS	PRESENT	EXPECTED

ATB Meeting Dates 2025-2026 AGREED

ATB Meetings 16:30

Thursday 23 October 2025 (electronic meeting)
Thursday 18 December 2025
Thursday 26 March 2026
Thursday 25 June 2026

Committee Meeting Dates 2025-2026 AGREED

Curriculum & Safeguarding Committee 14:30

Wednesday 12 November 2025
Wednesday 4 March 2026
Wednesday 10 June 2026

Audit & Finance Committee 14:30

Wednesday 19 November 2025
Wednesday 11 March 2026
Wednesday 17 June 2026

Pay & Performance Management Committee 14:30

Wednesday 17 December 2025
Wednesday 25 March 2026
Wednesday 24 June 2026

MEMBERS

NAME	APPOINTMENT	FROM (NO TERM)
Daanish Saeed	Appointed by academy members	1 February 2023 REMOVED 24 APRIL 2025 DUE TO INELIGIBILITY
Jennifer Sandra Lewis	Appointed by academy members	10 November 2016
Nicola Marie Taylor	Appointed by academy members	1 September 2020
Roger John Owen	Original (signatory) members	1 April 2011

Contemporary Trustee and Member details may always be found through this LINK

The Register of Interests (Members)

Member’s name	Name of business / charity / educational institute	Name of interest / interest began	Appointment (By / When)
Roger Owen	None	N/A	Appointed by ATB 1 April 2011
Jenny Lewis	None	N/A	Appointed by ATB 1 April 2011
Nicola Moir	Pay UK (Finance and Banking)	Employee	Appointed by ATB 1 September 2020
Daanish Saeed	London Borough of Hounslow West Thames College	Councillor / 4 October 2012 Employee / 1 September 2018	Appointed by ATB 1 February 2023 REMOVED 24 APRIL 2025 DUE TO INELIGIBILITY

ADMAT Company Secretary / Clerk / Trust Training and Development

The Chair of the ATB can be contacted using the drop-down menu of the 'CONTACT US' tab on this website

Complaints and Compliments should be sent using the-drop down menu of the 'CONTACT US' tab on this website

Company Name

Cranford Community College

Principal and Registered Office

High St

Cranford

Middlesex

TW5 9PD

Company Registered Number

07559818 (England & Wales)

Data Protection Officer: Shawn D'Souza, who can be contacted using the drop-down menu of the 'CONTACT US' tab on this website.

The certificate of incorporation can be found here by clicking.

The academy trust of Cranford Community College has been established under these articles of association, memorandum of association and funding agreement. These are currently being updated with the ESFA.

The trustees have the freehold of the land and premises.

The Academy Trust is currently considering updating its Funding Agreement and Articles of Association (from the 2010 version) with the ESFA / Secretary of State in 2025/26 and is also considering its options in terms of MAT developments so there may be some resulting structural changes to the ATB (Members and Trustees) and eligibility once either of these new frameworks are agreed and ratified. Key decisions are envisaged during 2026/27.

Further Information about Financial Management, the Annual General Meeting, the Annual Accounts and the Annual Report can be found on another page on this website, CLICK HERE

Cranford Community Trading Company

Commercial activity is run through a separate Trading Company to ensure the proper payment of VAT and has a sole Director, Mr John Lyden. Mr Lyden operates independent of the board and the academy. Kevin Prunty acts as CEO of the Trading Company.

All the profits from the trading company are gifted to the academy.