Trustees and members

The governance structure of our Trust comprises Members, the Trust Board and Local Governing Boards, all of whom are committed to ensuring educational excellence every day for the children and young people in our schools.

All of the volunteers involved in the governance of our Trust play a vital role and we are extremely grateful to them for providing their time and expertise in order to support our schools and the wider running of the Trust. 

Further details are available in our Scheme of Delegation which is available here.

The trust board has a number of subcommittees, including the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee, the Education and Standards Committee and the Local Governing Boards of the trust’s schools. The trust board delegates a number of its functions to these subcommittees as follows.

Local Governing Boards play a crucial role in both supporting and challenging their schools, in particular the Senior Leadership Team. LGBs will hold a shared vision for their school, which is clear, understood and well communicated to all stakeholders. They should understand the school’s performance data and have an accurate overview of how all pupils are achieving, as well as how different groups of pupils within the school are performing. LGBs should also have a good understanding of the barriers to learning, including attendance and behaviour issues and what the school is doing to overcome these. They will also act as the Pupil Discipline Committee for permanent exclusions and suspensions, and be involved in hearing complaints at Stage 3 of the Trust’s procedure, as part of a panel. 

The below graphic depicts the function of the LGBs within Excel Learning Trust and more information about each school’s LGB can be found on the individual school’s websites.

A range of governance meetings and activities take place across the academic year, and as well as the formal meetings of the Trust Board and its subcommittees, also include governor drop in events, an annual governance evening and meetings for the chairs of the LGBs. Please see the below graphic for an overview of governance interactions across the academic year.

If you are interested in getting involved in the governance of our Trust, at any level, we’d love to hear from you. Please contact central.services@elt.org.uk for further information on any opportunities we may have available.