Governance

About the EBN Academy Trust

The EBN Partnership opened the EBN Free Schools to provide purposeful learning environments for vulnerable students who were at risk of permanent exclusion. EBN Academy (Yardley) opened in September 2012. In September 2015 EBN Academy 2 (Castle Vale) opened forming the EBN Academy Trust. The EBN Academy Trust and it’s 2 Academies is now governed separately from the EBN Partnership but there are still strong links between the two, with the 2 Academies sitting on the East Birmingham Partnership of schools and overseeing the East Birmingham Partnership Sharing Panel, a serving EBN partnership Head Teacher sitting on the Board of Trustee’s and another senior member of staff sitting on the Local Governing Board of the Trust. EBN Academy has a PAN of 75 students and EBN Academy 2 a PAN of 78 students   and between them the Academies now serve up to 30 separate schools (Mainstream secondary and other Alternative Provision) across Birmingham, Solihull and occasionally Warwickshire.

Our Academies

EBN Academy (Yardley)

EBN Academy 2 (Castle Vale)

 

The MAT Structure consist of:

A) Members

B) MAT Board of Trustee’s

C) Finance, HR and General Purpose Committee

D) Audit & Risk Committee

D) Local Governing Body (LGB)

E) Health and Safety Committee

 

Members:

Gaetano Ferrante

Glen Alexander

Alex Hughes

 

Board of Trustees:

Sukhbir Farar (Chair)

Alex Hughes

Jill Saunders

Jas Sohal

Phil Melling

Rita Sohal

Carla Tranter

Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO)

 

Finance, HR and General Purposes Committee:

Jas Sohal (Chair)

Alex Hughes

Jill Saunders

Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO and Accounting Officer)

 

Audit and Risk Committee:

Alex Hughes (Chair)

Jas Sohal

Rita Sohal

Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO and Accounting Officer)

 

Local Governing Board:

Jill Saunders (Chair)

Karen Cornell (Head Teacher  – EBN Academy)

Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO)

Joshua Lawrence

Naila Sulieman

Steve Hobson

 

Health and Safety Committee:

Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (Chair and CEO)

Anthony Round (CFOO)

Karen Cornell (Head Teacher  – EBN Academy)

Karen Shearer (Head Teacher – EBN Academy 2)

Laura Donohoe

Pete Deakin

Nafisa Rehman (EBN Academy Staff Rep)

Tom Ellis (EBN 2 Staff Rep)

Steve Hobson

 

Governance Professional:

Charlotte Kennedy (Judicium Education)