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: 3/3
Attendance 2022-23: 1/1
Relevant Interests:
Parent at Dover Christ Church Academy (on appointment), Director – King’s College
Gary Cottle - Trustee
Attendance 2023-24: 3/3
Attendance 2022-23: 4/4
Attendance 2021-22: 3/4
Relevant Interests: None
Richard Hover - Trustee & Committee Co-Chair
Attendance 2024-25:
Relevant Interests: None
Helen James - Trustee
Attendance 2023-24: 3/3
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: 2/3
Attendance 2022-23: 4/4
Attendance 2021-22: 4/4
Relevant Interests: Director – King’s College
Grahame Ward - Trustee & Committee Co-Chair
Attendance 2023-24: 2/3
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)
Duties:
To ensure compliance with the Academy Trust Handbook
To provide oversight on internal controls and monitor performance at Trust and School level
To determine the scope of internal audits, review internal audit reports and progress of actions
To manage the ‘responsible officer’ function
To review capital plans
To review and recommend for approval annual budgets
Reporting:
Report to board of Trustees through approved minutes and feedback in meetings
Governed by:
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