Jenny Martin

Chair of Council. Chair of People & Culture Committee; Mental Health & Wellbeing Governor.

Jenny Martin

Chair of Council. Chair of People & Culture Committee; Mental Health & Wellbeing Governor.

Appointed 2019, Current Parent

Jenny is a Partner at coaching and advisory firm, Stork & May. Jenny spent the first 25 years of her career as a management consultant advising the Boards of a number of FTSE companies. She co-founded her own business in 2000 and sold it to Mercer in 2015, where she worked for a further 4 years before joining Stork & May. Jenny now coaches CEOs and supports senior executives through career change. She has a keen interest in mental health in the workplace and in 2020 completed her post-graduate Diploma in Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. Jenny also holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.

Eloise Francis

Governor

Jayne Adams

Governor

Jayne Adams

Governor

Jayne Adams

Appointed 2024

 

A practising solicitor specialising in charities, not for profits and governance, Jayne is a partner at McCarthy Denning and also runs her own consultancy. Her work is principally focused on advising charities of all shapes and sizes on charity law and practice, regulatory, constitutional and governance matters. She is an experienced school governor and charity trustee and also sits on the Advisory Board of Fraud and Financial Awareness Campaign CIC. Jayne was educated at Edinburgh Academy, the University of Durham (from where she holds a BA Joint Honours degree in French and Italian) and the College of Law, where she undertook her academic legal training, prior to practical training and qualification at Bircham Dyson Bell.

 

Sophie Bradshaw

Deputy Safeguarding Governor

Sophie Bradshaw

Deputy Safeguarding Governor

Sophie was appointed as a governor in 2020. Having previously worked at Ardingly Prep, she moved to Croydon High GDST where she was first Head of Junior School and now has responsibility for Sixth Form. A graduate of Exeter University, where she gained a first class degree in Education and Maths, she has enjoyed a career in teaching where she has experienced both state and independent schools, girls only and co-ed, as well as teaching from Pre Prep to Sixth Form.

Colin Baty

Chair of Education and Pastoral Committee

Colin Baty

Chair of Education and Pastoral Committee

Appointed 2023

Colin has taught in maintained and independent schools in age range form 3-18 in the United kingdom and New Zealand. Having previously been Headmaster of Great Walstead he then moved to Bedales Prep where he has been Head for the past 6 years. A graduate of Waikato University (New Zealand) where he gained Bachelor of Education and Diploma of Teaching. He has also gained the qualification of Professional Practice, Boarding Management – Honours level from Roehampton University. Presently completing ILM Level 7 Certificate for Executive Coaches and Mentors through the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM). He also holds the national Qualification of Headship (NPQH).  He has been a Director of Itrust – the Independent Association of Prep Schools (IAPS)’ Charitable arm and been a Director of the IAPS. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of IAPS and the Education Committee.

Vari Cameron

Chair of Finance Committee

Vari Cameron

Chair of Finance Committee

Appointed 2023

Vari Cameron is a Chartered Accountant and former parent, who spent 10 years in the travel industry before joining global logistics provider DHL. She spent 22 years as CFO and Head of Compliance for the Global Forwarding business in the UK, IE, Nordics & Baltics. In 2019, she decided to embark on a new challenge, supporting smaller businesses and currently works primarily with a luxury car logistics company.

Siân Champkin

Governor

Siân Champkin

Governor

Appointed 2015

Siân became a Governor of Ardingly College in 2015. She is a law graduate having attended Exeter University where she obtained an LLB. Following this Siân qualified as a solicitor in a niche corporate firm in her native Wales. Sian has subsequently become a Partner at Knights Solicitors where she heads up the Corporate and Education team in Oxford. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions with a particular specialism in charitable organisations including schools.

Guy Dixon

Governor with responsibility for Boarding, for Health and Safety & Chair of Risk and Safeguarding Committee

Guy Dixon

Governor with responsibility for Boarding, for Health and Safety & Chair of Risk and Safeguarding Committee

Appointed 2013, Old Ardinian, Current Parent

Guy left Ardingly College in 1996 after seven years at the school and continues to live locally in Haywards Heath. He went on to read Urban Planning and Management at the University of Nottingham before joining DTZ in London. In 2001 he joined Cluttons before moving to Savills in 2006 where he is a Planning Director advising major clients including Imperial College London, Catesby Estates, Brighton & Hove City Council and Crest Nicholson.

Felix Kempf

IB Governor

Felix Kempf

IB Governor

Appointed in 2023, Old Ardinian

Felix graduated from Ardingly in 2010 where he was a full-time boarder, School (Hilton) and House Prefect. Felix is a research analyst at Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank. He focuses his work on quantitative portfolio strategies in global equities and credit markets. Felix holds a PhD in Financial Econometrics and MSc in Banking and Finance from King’s College London, and a MSc + BSc in Civil Engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

 

Laura Flynn

Governor with Responsibility for Prep School

Laura Flynn

Governor with Responsibility for Prep School

Appointed 2023.

Laura is the Principal of Radlett Preparatory School, a co-educational prep school in Hertfordshire, having previously held the role of Head of Junior School at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School. A graduate of Southampton University, where she gained a degree in Psychology, Laura has enjoyed a career in teaching over the past 17 years, across both state and independent sectors, both single sex and co-educational.

 

David Foster

Safeguarding Governor

David Foster

Safeguarding Governor

David graduated in 1998 with a BA in Secondary Education and then read Human Geography at the University of Leeds, achieving his Masters degree in 1999. He began his teaching career in York and progressed to Assistant Headteacher at a leading academy trust school.  David worked internationally for the Harrow group for over a decade. His responsibilities included serving as the Director of Studies at Harrow Bangkok, and later, he assumed the role of founding Deputy Head Master and Designated Safeguarding Lead at Harrow Shenzhen, successfully overseeing its inauguration in 2020.

In his current role as Vice Principal at Shoreham College, David has strategic responsibility for the academic and pastoral life of the College. He manages the team of Assistant Principals to ensure the smooth running of educational operations at Shoreham College.

David is a fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and Team Inspector for the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI).

The Governing body, in conjunction with the Headmaster, sets out the aims of the College and ensures that they are met.

The Governors all act as charity trustees of the company. At any time there are to be no fewer than four and no more than 16 Governors.

Ardingly College has achieved certification with the HMC/AGBIS Good Governance Programme. The programme has been jointly developed by AGBIS and HMC to support and provide recognition of high-quality governance in HMC member schools.

The College is governed by the governing body (Council) which meets at least termly. Council operates using a number of Committees that cover key areas of College activity: Education and Pastoral, Risk and Safeguarding, Finance, People and Culture, Estates and Nominations and Governance.

Council appoint the Head of each School and delegate the day-to-day management of the College to the Head of College and key management personnel.

The Chair and all Governors may be contacted via Clerk to the Governors Sophie Koziarski; sophie.koziarski@ardingly.com