Members and Trustees

Trustees

Sid Slater

Chair of Trustees and Member

Pauline Livesey

Vice Chair of Trust Board

Reverend Margaret Sherwin

Chair of the Education Committee

Simon Pearce

Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee

Pat Hunt

Vice Chair of Education Committee

Colin Haswell

Vice Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee

Stuart Harper

Trustee

Julie Wheeldon

Trustee

Name	Role	Appointed By	Term of Office Began	Term of Office Ends	Date of Resignation
Sidney Slater	Chair of Trustees	Foundation/Trust	2017-04-01	2025-03-31
Margaret Sherwin	Chair of Education Committee	Foundation/Trust	2017-04-01	2025-03-31
Robin Oldham		Foundation/Trust	2017-04-01	2025-03-31	2022-04-11
Trevor Sutcliffe		Foundation/Trust	2017-04-01	2025-03-31	2022-05-17
Victoria Bennett		Foundation/Trust	2017-04-01	2025-03-31	2022-11-24
Pauline Livesey		Foundation/Trust	2017-09-01	2025-08-31
Leslie Trigg		Foundation/Trust	2017-11-01	2025-10-31	2021-12-31
Stuart Harper		Trust Members	2020-01-06	2024-01-05
Colin Haswell		Trust Members	2022-03-14	2025-03-13
Simon Pearce	Chair Finance and Audit Committee	Trust Members	2022-06-08	2026-06-07
Patricia Hunt		Trust Members	2023-01-03	2027-01-02
Julie Wheeldon		Trust Members	2023-30-03	2027-29-03

Members

Information on Sid Slater can be found in the Trustees’ section (above).

The Church of England Central Education Trust (CECET)

Professor Elizabeth Barnes

Name	Role	Appointed By	Term of Office Began	Term of Office Ends	Date of Resignation
CECET		CECET	2019-07-01
Elizabeth Barnes	Chair	Foundation/Trust	2017-04-01
Glenn Handforth		Foundation/Trust	2017-04-01		2021-12-31
Sidney Slater		Foundation/Trust	2017-04-01

Record of attendance at meetings:

Record of Attendance (School Year 2022-2023)

Record of Attendance (School Year 2021-2022)

Record of Attendance (School Year 2020-2021)

Record of Attendance (School Year 2019-2020)

Record of Attendance (School Year 2018-2019)

Record of Attendance (School Year 2017-2018)

Business Register (School Year 2022-2023)

Sid Slater

Sid joined the Uttoxeter Learning Trust at its inception and remains Chair of Trustees and is Link Trustee for the high school in our Trust, Thomas Alleynes.

Previously he was a governor and vice chair of a local authority school. He is also a National Leader of Governance (NLG) delivering external reviews and support for other schools and academy trusts on behalf of the National Governance.

Sid brings a wide range of experience and leadership in the education and business sectors to his role as chair, having held three secondary head teacher posts and worked in senior roles in local authorities. He also directed national industry and education partnerships at the University of Warwick.

He has worked as a senior education adviser at the Department for Education, including having regional responsibility, as a school improvement consultant, 14-19 adviser and free school education adviser. He remains a Departmental external expert.

Sid has also worked in the business sector as director of a multinational cost and programme management consultancy company. He is currently a director of a small company.

Sid is committed to the success and well-being of our young people in the Trust and offering high quality education for all.

He is very proud of our young people and what they achieve as they move through our three-tier system, from nursery school to post-16 provision at our high school. He sees that our Trust works in partnership with parents and communities for the benefit of the students who represent the future of our country.

Over the next five years he aims to support the Trust to welcome other like-minded, schools into our family and continue to improve and develop our high-quality education.

Pauline Livesey

Pauline Livesey is Vice Chair of our Trust Board, Advisory Headteacher and Link Trustee for both Bramshall Meadows First School and All Saints Church of England First School.

Pauline Livesey is a retired Primary Executive Headteacher with a very varied experience working in a range of schools.

After teaching in Southall, West London and schools in Northern Ireland, she went on to work in schools in Eastern Europe and was headteacher of a British International School in Moscow working with children from diverse backgrounds.

On returning to the UK, Pauline worked in a variety of settings before becoming headteacher at St Peters Marchington and finally worked as executive headteacher of the Woodlands Federation.

Reverend Margaret Sherwin

Margaret was one of our founding trustees, chairs the Education Committee and has the strategic responsibility for Christian Distinctiveness across the Trust. She is also the Link Trustee for Windsor Park Church of England Middle School.

A Church of England priest, she is also the Team Rector for the Uttoxeter Area. Many of the Trust’s schools are connected to an Area church.

Margaret has a keen interest in the governance side of education and has been involved in schools as governor and trustee of a large urban MAT for nearly 30 years.

She offers pastoral care to trustees, staff and children and their families and leads worship and RE days in some trust schools.

She would like to see the Trust continue to succeed, with all schools judged good or outstanding by Ofsted and, for our Church of England schools, good or excellent by the Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS). She would also like to see the Trust continue to grow, both the in number of schools and number of pupils on roll, and for all to access a creative curriculum appropriate for their needs.

Simon Pearce

Simon is Chair of the Trust’s Finance and Audit Committee and Link Governor for Hutchinson Memorial Church of England First School.

Simon is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience of governance and financial management. Most recently he was Company Secretary and Director of Corporate Governance of the Financial Conduct Authority. Prior to this, his career included numerous company secretary or financial director roles in a wide range of industries, including investment banking, cruise shipping, children’s entertainment and manufacturing.

Simon is a non-executive director and chair of the Audit Committee of the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He was also a trustee and Honorary Treasurer of Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity based in Windsor, for 11 years.

Simon is keen to see the Trust establish itself as a leading provider of education for children throughout their school career, based on a track record of excellent outcomes for students and sound financial management. Over the next five years, he would like to see the Trust continue to grow the number and range of schools within it, gradually broadening its geographical reach whilst maintaining its strong focus on maximising students’ potential and financial stability. He would like to see schools within the Trust deriving clear benefits from being a part of progressive and effective multi-academy trust.

Pat Hunt

Pat is the Vice Chair of our Education Committee and has oversight of safeguarding and special educational needs (SEND) for the Trust. She is also the Link Trustee to The Richard Clarke First school.

She has extensive experience in education, with over 30 years’ experience working in schools across all ages – from 4 to 18 years. She has senior leadership experience in secondary schools and was a primary headteacher.

Pat also worked for a local authority where she gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in governance in multi academy trusts (MATs). She has been a Chief Executive Officer of a small local MAT and is a National Leader of Governance.

She currently runs a school improvement consultancy with a particular specialism in special educational needs and primary education.

Pat has now brought all her experience and knowledge to the Trust and is excited to be on the part of its on-going journey. She believes the children served by the Trust should have the best opportunities to succeed in school and their next stages of life-long learning. To achieve this she is committed to ensuring staff wellbeing is at the heart of this.

She would like to see the Trust be forward and outward thinking and certainly the Trust of choice for schools locally and further afield.

Colin Haswell

Colin is Vice Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, leads on human resources and wellbeing and is Link Trustee for Picknalls First School.

He is a highly experienced HR Leader, having worked at a senior level in internationally focused roles in the BMW Group, Rolls-Royce Plc and, most recently, with Ball Corporation. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Colin’s experience of the education sector has been gained as a parent of children who have worked their way through the state education system. This is combined with a strong understanding of what businesses need educationally from prospective employees, having led teams responsible for hiring and training apprentices and graduates.

He expects to see the Trust become nationally recognised as one of the top providers of education across all age levels by demonstrating a sustainable track record of maximising the potential of individual students’ skills and abilities.

In the next five years, Colin envisages the Trust will grow and broaden its geographical footprint whilst still retaining its core identity, focus on strong student outcomes and sustainable financial stability. Its schools will consistently show improved performance levels through realising the benefits of working together within a highly effective and efficient MAT.

Stuart Harper

Stuart is the Link Trustee for Oldfields Hall Middle School and supports the health and safety strategy across the trust.

He is a business leader with a history of creating innovative solutions and actioning successful change management in the engineering field.

As a Chartered Engineer, Stuart is skilled in strategic professional development, new product introduction, operational excellence and commercial management through periods of growth and decline. A skilled communicator, he is able to steer policy through credible expertise and stakeholder management.

Stuart has a passion for science and engineering education. He has worked closely with a wide range of educational organisations to launch national STEM programmes for primary and secondary schools.

He has a particular expertise in engineering graduate employability skills and degree apprenticeships.

He is keen to see the trust continue to grow sustainably and continue to bring more value to its member schools and see them thrive.

Julie Wheeldon

Julie leads on legal for the Trust and is the Link Trustee for Ryecroft Church of England Middle School.

Qualifying as a solicitor in 1995, Julie completed her training contract with a large practice in Derby. Head of Department roles at two further practices ultimately led to a partnership position with a practice in Stafford. Throughout her legal career she gained extensive experience in all aspects of matrimonial/family law together with contentious probate matters.

Seeking a career change in 2014, she moved to the education sector. Gaining initial experience as a volunteer classroom support assistant at a preparatory school, she successfully completed a Level 3 Diploma in Specialist Support for Teaching and Learning in Schools (QCF). A Learning Support Assistant role in the SEN department of a local secondary school deepened her knowledge of the specific learning difficulties experienced by young people and how best to support them to achieve their maximum potential.

Recent part time work as a Compliance and Regulations Auditor for a property company has allowed her make use of her legal skills.

The Church of England Central Education Trust (CECET)

The Church of England Central Education Trust (CECET) is the Diocesan Corporate Member of Uttoxeter Learning Trust. It ensures the Church of England schools in the Trust maintain and develop their religious ethos, which is to be both distinctively Christian and inclusive of all. It views education as enabling the flourishing of all pupils and staff to develop their God given potential.

CECET is represented at Members meetings by an officer of the Lichfield Diocesan Board of Education.

Professor Elizabeth Barnes

Professor Elizabeth Barnes is the Chair of Members for the Trust, she is highly experienced in education and leadership. Liz retired from a long career in Higher Education at the end of 2021, having served most recently as Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive at Staffordshire University. She previously was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Sheffield Hallam University and Derby University after a long career at Teesside University.

Elizabeth is committed to young people and education; she believes it is important education and employers are seen to be working jointly in endeavours to improve the life chances of young people.

In her role at Staffordshire University, Elizabeth built connections with employers and industry, working with them to provide vocational courses to upskill the future workforce. Her career has been built around leading learning and teaching and the student experience. She is a Governor of two Universities, and a non-executive Director in Housing and with a NHS Trust.