Our Trustees
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Steve WheatleyEPT Trustee
Steve Wheatley
Management
More than 10 years' experience at senior management level with in organisations. Â Lead role in management of business development with focus on improvement and efficiencies, staffing development, management of health and safety and facilities reporting to both public and senior board level. HR experience both at local and corporate level ranging from small disputes with mediators resolutions through to disciplinarians and employment tribunals. Regional manager with staffing numbers at times in excess of 450 employees. Â Experienced in staff management of single status contracts and multi varied contracts inclusive of TUPE'd staff. Local, regional and national group restructure experience working closely with unions, staff and customers towards best end goals. Commercial management of varied members in excess of 10,000 with focus of staff retention and customer attrition reducing both categories in form of actual leavers whilst also creating staff development plans for staff to progress in their careers. Managed multimillion pound budgets and project managed refurbishments and new builds / installations ensuring compliance with current legislation. Â
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Compliance
Qualified Health and Safety trainer and assessor in disciplines such as first aid, health and safety management, fire safety, food hygiene etc. Managed facilities through quality assurance inspections gaining the likes of accreditation in ISO 9001, ISO 14001 in industry and also the educational inspection framework of OFSTED being graded Outstanding. Whilst operations director of a management consultancy he advised on local and regional initiatives for NEET clients and improvements to their circumstances placing them back in to the work place. This was done whilst offering full protection to the business recruiting, the client requiring work placement and job agency struggling to place them, very often offering work based training making the clients "job ready". Â Â Â
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Business Improvement
Improved centre EBITDA 29% year on year higher than forecast. Financial sustainability in centre which had previously run as a community offering but a financial drain on the group, this turned around to make profit and improve services for the first time in previous 5 years. Improved work force, better trained, more qualified and better staffing retention. Project managed rebuild / refurbishments of facilities accounting for all health and safety and financial responsibility. Successfully bid for funding to develop projects to further support the customers and staffing team. Training program written and developed from scratch to include staff incentives and benefits. Wrote successful business tenders for national contracts of large organisations. Â Â
email: swheatley@windrush.greenwich.sch.uk
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Paul ChapmanEPT Trustee
Paul Chapman
Skills & Experience
Compliance
Qualified Company Secretary - provided service to investee companies of a private equity business, and divisional head office functions within two FTSE 100 companies. Experienced in dealing with Limited Companies, Guarantee Companies, Trusts, Pension Funds, VCTs and other investment vehicles in both private and public sector as well as being a FSA registered Compliance Officer.
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Jo MarchantEPT Trustee
Jo Marchant
Jo is the Trust Lead of the Endeavour Partnership Trust. She has 26 years of experience in primary education and has been designated as a National Leader in Education. Â As well as leading two outstanding sites with Windrush she also took up an interim Headship of another 4 form entry spilt site school in Greenwich for one year and saw it through a transition of being Requires Improvement to Good. Jo carries out school to school reviews in other London boroughs and around England in areas such as Dorset and Devon. Jo is also a Pupil Premium reviewer and carries out reviews in inner and outer London. Â Â
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Alison DeadmanEPT Trustee
Alison Deadman
Alison is a qualified CIPFA accountant who worked for the finance department of Greenwich LA for twenty four years until taking up the post of School Business Manager at Windrush in September 2015. Alison had responsibility for the Greenwich School's Accounting Team before being promoted to the Head of Children's Services Finance post in October 2012 where she was responsible for managing and reporting on a budget of over £270 million, including the Dedicated School's Grant. Â
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Anna DilnottEPT Trustee
Anna Dilnott
Anna Dilnot has a broad commercial and commercial Chancery practice with particular expertise in civil fraud, multi-jurisdiction disputes and international arbitration. Anna is recommended as a leading junior in the legal directories for both commercial litigation and civil fraud.
In 2013 Anna was chosen by Chambers and Partners as one of its ten Stars of the Bar. Â
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John CampEPT Trustee
John Camp
John Camp is Chief Executive Officer of The Compass Partnership of Schools in Greenwich, London. The partnership is a charitable trust of six primary schools and one all-through special school. John is also a national leader of education and a council member for The Association of School and College Leaders.
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John started his career in the London borough of Southwark in 1991, and moved to Greenwich in 2001 as deputy of an outstanding primary school. He became Headteacher of Deansfield Primary School in 2008 and has then Executive Headteacher of the Compass Partnership schools which was a local authority federation. The federation grew over a period six years as a result of its reputation for outstanding change leadership and innovative approaches to developing curricular and teaching that is creative and engaging.
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Leadership has been judged as outstanding by OfSTED and has been instrumental in turning around the fortunes of three schools in very difficult circumstances. The group is one of the Teaching Schools in the Royal Greenwich Teaching Schools Alliance and provides a range of teacher development opportunities for other schools. The partnership supports a number of schools and groups of schools across the south east.
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John is a committed system leader who believes passionately in collaboration as a lever for deep and lasting change.
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Josh HarsantEPT Trustee
Josh Harsant
Josh is UK Head of Voice and Influence at Barnardo's, leading the charity's corporate strategy for ensuring children and young people's voices and lived experiences inform and influence how we work and the decisions we make across the charity.
Before joining Barnardo's in January 2021, Josh worked for 10 years delivering and leading a range of child and youth voice and influence/participation projects, programmes, and services in the public and voluntary sectors, mainly in South London, including with schools and for children and young people in and leaving care, and those with disabilities.
Josh is an NSPCC certified Designated Safeguarding officer and brings experience of safeguarding and significant experience of working with local authority children's services. Academically he has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Education Studies and a Master's degree in Education with a specialism in childhood and youth).
Josh is also an experienced Trustee and he is currently on the board of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival. Previously he has been on the boards of a Connexions partnership and Artswork.
Josh is really passionate about children and young people having the best start in life and believes that a huge part of that is the education and support they receive in school. Josh's experience and passion will support the Trust in striving to deliver outstanding education to all children. Â
