Finance, Audit & RISK Committee

Finance, Audit & Risk Committee:

Xanthia Ash - independent member

Xanthia is a qualified accountant (FCMA CGMA) with over 15 years experience in the education sector from nursery to HE.  She is currently the Director of Finance at The King's School, Canterbury. Before this she was Finance and Operations Director of an Academy Trust.

Attendance 2023-24: 1/1

Attendance 2022-23: 1/1

Relevant Interests: 

Parent at Dover Christ Church Academy (on appointment), Director – King’s College

Grahame Ward - Trustee & Committee Chair

Attendance 2023-24: 1/1

Attendance 2022-23: 3/4

Relevant Interests: Trustee – South Kent Mind (Jan 2022), Retired member - Kent Pension Board (Jan 23), Co-opted member - Audit Committee, Canterbury Christchurch University (August 2023)

Gary Cottle - Trustee

Attendance 2023-24: 1/1

Attendance 2022-23: 4/4

Attendance 2021-22: 3/4

Relevant Interests: None

Helen James - Trustee

Attendance 2023-24: 1/1

Relevant Interests:  Chair of the Education and Skills Board - Institution of Mechanical Engineers (01.01.22), member of the Education Committee - Royal Society (2021),  member of the Strategic Industry Advisory Board  - Engineering Design Growth & Enterprise Hub - Kent and Medway (2018) 

Mark Taylor - Trustee

Attendance 2023-24: 1/1

Attendance 2022-23: 4/4

Attendance 2021-22: 4/4

Relevant Interests: Director – King’s College

Duties:

Reporting:

Report to board of Trustees through approved minutes and feedback in meetings

Governed by:

TERMS OF REFERENCE – FARC

Meetings:

Three-Four per year

Trustees review the governance structure and membership of committees on an annual basis.

Committee members who have left in the past 12 month