Governance
About the EBN Academy Trust
The EBN Partnership opened the EBN Free Schools to provide purposeful learning environments for vulnerable students who were at risk of permanent exclusion. EBN Academy (Yardley) opened in September 2012. In September 2015 EBN Academy 2 (Castle Vale) opened forming the EBN Academy Trust. The EBN Academy Trust and it’s 2 Academies is now governed separately from the EBN Partnership but there are still strong links between the two, with the 2 Academies sitting on the East Birmingham Partnership of schools and overseeing the East Birmingham Partnership Sharing Panel, a serving EBN partnership Head Teacher sitting on the Board of Trustee’s and another senior member of staff sitting on the Local Governing Board of the Trust. EBN Academy has a PAN of 75 students and EBN Academy 2 a PAN of 78 students and between them the Academies now serve up to 30 separate schools (Mainstream secondary and other Alternative Provision) across Birmingham, Solihull and occasionally Warwickshire.
Our Academies
EBN Academy (Yardley)
EBN Academy 2 (Castle Vale)
The MAT Structure consist of:
A) Members
B) MAT Board of Trustee’s
C) Finance, HR and General Purposes
D) Audit & Risk Committee
E) Local Governing Body (LGB)
F) Health and Safety Committee
Members:
Gaetano Ferrante
Glen Alexander
Alex Hughes
Board of Trustee’s:
Sukhbir Farar (Chair)
Alex Hughes
Jill Saunders
Jas Sohal
Phil Melling
Rita Sohal
Carla Tranter
Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO)
Finance, HR and General Purposes Committee:
Jas Sohal (Chair)
Alex Hughes
Jill Saunders
Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO and Accounting Officer)
Audit and Risk Committee:
Jas Sohal
Alex Hughes (Chair)
Rita Sohal
Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO and Accounting Officer)
Local Governing Board:
Jill Saunders (Chair)
Karen Cornell (Head Teacher – EBN Academy)
Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO)
Naila Sulieman (Governor)
Joshua Lawrence (Governor)
Steve Hobson (Governor)
Health and Safety Committee:
Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (Chair and CEO)
Anthony Round (CFOO)
Karen Shearer
Laura Donohoe
Karen Cornell
Pete Deakin
Tom Ellis (Staff Rep EBN Academy 2)
Nafisa Rehman (Staff Rep EBN Academy)
Steve Hobson
Governance Professional
Charlotte Kennedy (Judicium Education)