Governors

Visitor

 

The Right Reverend, The Lord Bishop of Oxford

 

Members of Council   

 

Martin Young, Warden (pictured right). OB and former President of the Old Bradfieldian Society. Member of Council since 2000 and former Chair of the Finance and General Purposes Committee. Chair of Council.  Member of the Finance and General Purposes and the Education Committees.

 

Lady Ryder (Caroline Ryder)

Member of the Education Committee. Governor responsible for SMT liaison.

 

P G F Lowndes (Peter Lowndes)

Chair of the Finance and General Purposes Committee. Member of the Audit and Risk Committee. Member of the Estates Committee.

 

J M Layton (James Layton)

Chair and Director of Bradfield College Enterprises Limited. Member of the Financial and General Purposes Committee.

 

M A Jones (Mike Jones)

OB and Chair of the Estates Committee. Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee.

 

A H Scott (Andrew Scott)

OB and member of the Finance & General Purposes Committee. Trustee of the Bradfield Foundation.

 

D Shilton (David Shilton)

OB and member of the Old Bradfieldian Society General Committee. Trustee of the Bradfield Foundation. Director of Bradfield College Enterprises Limited.

 

P B Saunders (Peter Saunders)

Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee. Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee. Director of Bradfield College Enterprises Limited. Member of the internal Health and Safety Committee. Governor responsible for Health and Safety.

 

Lady Waller (Rachel Waller)

Member of the Staff/Council Liaison Committee. Governor responsible for Child Protection.

 

Dr S Fane (Sarah Fane)

Chair of the Public Benefit Committee. Chair of the Afghan Connection Charity (this is Faulkner’s pupils’ house charity).

 

G W P Barber (Gerald Barber)

Former Headmaster of Ludgrove Prep School. Member of the Education Committee.

 

Professor D Paterson (David Paterson)

Professor of Physiology at Oxford University and tutor in Medicine at Merton College. Chair of the Education Committee.

 

I M Wood-Smith (Ian Wood-Smith)

OB and member of the Audit and Risk Committee. Member of the Estates Committee.

 

P C H Burrowes (Paddy Burrowes)

OB and Chair of the Bradfield Foundation.  

 

H P Gangsted (Peter Gangsted)

OB and President of the Old Bradfieldian Society and Chair of the Management Committee of the Bradfield Club in Peckham. Member of the Public Benefit Committee.

 

Mrs C Dibble (Claire Dibble)

Member of the Public Benefit Committee and the Staff/Council Liaison Committee

 

Mrs J Scarrow (Jan Scarrow)

Member of the Education Committee

 

Clerk to the Council

 

S Beccle (Simon Beccle)  

OB and member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee.

 

Role

 

The Council is legally responsible for the overall management and control of the College as a registered charity. The Council fosters the development and prosperity of the College. The Council ensures the College abides by the provisions of its statutes and the constitutional arrangements the charity is subject to. Furthermore, the Council checks that the College abides by the legislation and regulation laid down for Independent schools by the Department of Education.

 

The Council has membership of the Association of Governing Bodies in the same way as the Headmaster is a member of HMC, the Bursar is a member of the Independent Schools Bursars’ Association, and the College is a corporate member of the Independent Schools Council and the Boarding Schools Association. Copies of the Statutes of the College and other governing regulations are available on request from the Bursar.

  

Committees

 

Besides often visiting the College and attending meetings of the Council, all members of the Governing Body are involved in the structure of committees which helps the governance of the College. These are:

 

(i)  The Finance and General Purposes Committee: this decides on major spending projects, authorises all spending by the Management of the College and has responsibility for the expenditure, cost controls and financial prosperity of the College;

 

(ii)  The Estates Committee has overall responsibility for the buildings, lands and other Estates matters that the large campus at Bradfield entails;

 

(iii)  The Audit and Risk Committee supervises the financial reporting, auditing and methodology; it also monitors risk and health and safety at the College;

 

(iv)  The Education Committee advises on academic policy and curricular development;   

 

(v)  The Staff/Council Liaison Committee aims to help good communication across what is a complex organisation and to address staff ideas on the formation of strategic policy;

 

(vi) The Public Benefit Committee monitors and supports the College's Community Outreach Programme which includes the Primary Schools Partnership; support of College charities; and the joint  efforts of the Bradfield Club in Peckham.   

  Contact Details for Warden and Governors

Address: 
c/o Headmaster's Office

Bradfield College

Bradfield

Reading

Berkshire

RG7 6AU

 

Tel: 0118 964 4500

 

Senior ManagemenT team

  

Headmaster

Simon Henderson, MA

 

Bursar

Trefor Llewellyn, BA, FCA

 

Second Master

Kevin Collins, MA

 

Senior Deputy Head - Admissions and External Relations

Alexandra Acton, BA (Hons)

 

Deputy Head - Academic

Neil Burch, MSci

 

Deputy Head - Co-Curricular

Al MacEwen, MA