Governance

The Vine Schools Trust is a multi-academy trust and is the accountable body for all twenty three of its schools. Therefore, the overarching responsibility for the governance of the Trust and its schools lies with the Vine Board of Directors. They fulfil the three core functions of governance:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff; and
Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.

To enable the Directors to fulfil their responsibility eight regional Local Schools Board’s work on their behalf and undertake delegated local governance of between two and four schools. Community Boards in each school enable local support and provide information to enable good governance.

The key principle is that all three Boards together with Executive Leaders will provide an aspect of governance the other cannot as set out in this chart.

This model of governance is undertaken under delegated responsibility. For full details see below.

South Essex Board

MEMBERS	ROLE	CONTACT
Charlotte Little	Chair	charlotte.little@dcvst.org
Gemma Smith	HT	gemma.smith@dcvst.org
Sally Finch	HT	sally.finch@dcvst.org
Belynda Fellows	Vine HT	belynda.fellows@dcvst.org
Laurie Eve		laurie.eve@dcvst.org
Rev David Ibiayo		david.ibiayo@dcvst.org
Catherine Stalham		head@wintergardensacademy.org
Sarah Lonsdale		sarah.lonsdale@dcvst.org
Hanli Bouwer	Vice Chair	hanli.bouwer@dcvst.org
Elizabeth Murphy	Juniper Clerk	elizabeth.murphy@junipereducation.org