Members
Barry Eldred
Appointed: June 2014
Company Director, Deputy Lieutenant for South Yorkshire. Former Non-Executive. Director of Barnsley Building Society (twice Chair). Northern Ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and trustee of various other bodies.
Hearl Lenton
Appointed: July 2014
FRICS, Senior Partner at Holroyd Miller Chartered Surveyors. Chair of Wellspring Trust Board.
Dianne Murray
Appointed: April 2019
BA, Cert Ed. Former Vice-Principal, Barnsley College. Currently a part-time consultant with Luminate Education Group
Russell Gill
Appointed: April 2021
MBA. Russell is Head of Community Delivery at the Co-operative Group. He is Chair of the Co-op Academies Trust. Russell is also a trustee of the People’s History Museum and is Chair of the Co-op’s Northern Pension Fund.
Prof Rachel Lofthouse
Appointed: October 2021
PhD BSc & Professor of Teacher Education at Leeds Beckett University. Member of the British Educational Research Association (BERA)
Trustees
Gordon Beever
Appointed: July 2014
Board Appointed
Member of ICSA. Company Director. Former Trustee of Barnsley College.
Molly Beever
Appointed: September 2017
Board Appointed
B.Ed. Retired Work-related Learning Consultant & Assistant Director of Faculty.
Colin Booth OBE
Appointed: October 2015
Board Appointed
LSIS MBA Post Grad Diploma in Social Education. Group CEO of Luminate Education Group.
Neil Clephan OBE
Appointed: August 2018
Board Appointed
National Leader of Education. Education Consultant.
Jennifer Field
Appointed: March 2021
Board Appointed
MBA CIPFA - Independent Consultant. Previous Deputy Director of Finance & Strategy, Health Education England.
Amarron Frederick
Appointed: October 2021
Board Appointed
LIBF. Vice President – Relationship Director – SME Business Banking at Barclays Bank’
Stewart Harper
Appointed: December 2018
Board Appointed
AGC. Freelance Company Secretary & Non-Executive Director.
Cheryl Hobson
Appointed: December 2018
Board Appointed
CIPFA MBA. Financial & Business Consultant
Yiannis Koursis
Appointed: December 2018
Sponsor Appointed
BA BSc. Principal & CEO, Barnsley College.
Jayne Lawrence
Appointed: March 2021
Board Appointed
MBA. Head of Operations, Department of Computer Science, University of York.
Hearl Lenton (Chair of the Board)Appointed: December 2018
Board Appointed
FRICS, Senior Partner at Holroyd Miller Chartered Surveyors.
Mark Wilson
Appointed: December 2018
Ex-officio
National Leader of Education. CEO of Wellspring Academy Trust.
Other Members / Trustees in 2020/21
John HallAppointed: July 2015Resigned: October 2020
Former Member
Joe WilkinsonAppointed: July 2019Resigned: November 2020
Former Member
Richard OwenAppointed: December 2018Resigned: December 2020
Former Trustee
