Governing Board

The Board of Directors has a key role to play in helping the College provide the best possible education for all its students. The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 strengthens that role by giving governing bodies a specific responsibility for helping to raise standards. The governing body meet regularly and review each aspect of the College. This includes students achievement and progress, teaching and learning, use of resources, and staffing. Committees and panels are formed as required and a finance and premises committee meet during the year to specifically review the best use of the money allocated to the College. The admissions panel meet regularly throughout the year.

The Governors’ vision is that the College including all the students and staff are the “best we can be” and more detail on this can be found by following this link.

The membership of the board, the Chairs and Vice Chairs of each committee is shown below.

All communications to the Directors should be directed in the first instance to the Clerk, Michelle Ferris. Her email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Members of the Board

Name	Role	Type of Governor	Term Expires	Attendance 2018 -19	Committee's	Pecuniary interest
Canon John Cunningham	Chair of Governors	Foundation	31/01/2021	12 out of 12	All	Priest Director of Holy Cross Catholic Primary School Diocesan Trustee
Mrs Liz Barrett	Vice Chair of Governors	Foundation	17/10/2023	9 out of 12	n/a	Employed by Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd
Mr Aaron Thornton	Vice Chair Chair of Finance Committee	Foundation	20/09/2022	10 out of 11
Mr Chris Lang	Chair of Admissions Panel	Foundation	31/07/2023	27 out of 31	Admissions finance and Premises	None Declared
Mr Paul Hughes	Executive Principal	E Officio		30 out of 31	All	ASCL
Mr Mark Fleet	Staff Governor	Staff	03/05/2020	12 out of 14		Mother, Mrs Fleet employed by Swindon Music Service Freelance event technician
Mrs Marie Temple-Richmond	Staff Governor	Staff	01/07/2023	2 out of 2
Mr John Moore	Vice Chair of Finance Committee	Foundation	20/09/2022	13 out of 13
Mr Kevin Burchall		Foundation	20/09/2022	8 out of 10
Mrs Kate Innes		Foundation	02/10/2023	n/a
Mr Terry Aspell	Chair of Finance and Premises committee	Foundation	Resignation effective 31 August 2018	n/a	Finance and Premises Progress
Mr Andrew Szeliga		Foundation	Resignation effective 31/8/2019	26 out of 31	Admissions Finance and Premises	Velox Technologies Ltd (Owner) Director of Holy Family Catholic Academy
Mr Tony Matthews	Vice Chair	Foundation	31/07/2019	10 out of 12	n/a
Mr Andrej Matyla	Staff Governor	Staff	03/05/2020 - Resigned 24/4/2019	Did not Attend		NASUWT Member
Mrs Jennifer Makamure		Foundation	30/09/2019 - Resigned as of 18/12/2018	Did not attend		Employed by UK Research and innovation.

The Diocese of Clifton appoints the foundation governors. Staff and parent governors are selected following the process as recommended by the national governors association and Department for Education which is then ratified by the governing body and trustee’s. Unless otherwise noted, each Governor servers a term of four years.

Designated Safeguarding Lead: Adrian Stoten
Designated Senior Manager for Allegations & lead contact for Public & Parents: Helen Peace
Link Governor for Safeguarding & Child Protection: Mrs Liz Barrett.

All foundation governors are appointed by Bishop Declan of the Clifton Diocese, staff governors are appointed by election, parent governors are appointed by election and the one additional governor is appointment by the Governing Body as a whole.

The Chair of the Board is Canon John Cunningham who can be contacted at the College address or via the clerk.

For a description of the governing body's activities, please click here

For a summary of governing body meetings, please click on the month below