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Anthem Community Council

As part of a multi-academy trust, our school is not restricted to the traditional model of local governance that most people are familiar with. 

Society is changing, and our governance structures needed to change with it. Anthem is leading the way with a completely new kind of governance across its 16 schools with local views, experiences, and expertise at its heart. 

You can find out more about the strategy on the Anthem website.

Our school is part of Anthem Schools Trust and the name for our local layer of governance is Anthem Community Councils (ACCs). Members of our ACCs are known as Anthem Community Council members (ACCms).  The ACC has four delegated areas of responsibility:

  • Community
  • Celebration
  • SEND, inclusion and safeguarding.
  • Panels

 

Each ACC includes ACCms who are Champions in key areas such as safeguarding, SEND and inclusion, and climate change. Our ACCms ensure the voices of students, parent/carers, staff and the community are heard and considered across the school and trust.  Further details of all the Champion roles can be found here https://www.anthemtrust.uk/accs

 

The current members of our ACC are:

Name

Role

Membership

Date Appointed

Term of Office

Stepped down (where applicable)

Appointed by

Interests declared and date interest began

Rachael Horn

Headteacher

n/a

 

       

Diane Charlesworth

ACC Chair

Community Member

07 July 2025

4 years

 

Executive

 

Matthew Munford

ACC member

Community Member

01 September 2025

4 years

 

Trust

Wife, Lindsay Tuach-Munford is an Employee of Lincolnshire County Council working currently as a Project Support Officer on the Councils Special Schools Project 1st January 2001 – present.

Member of Institute of Road Transport Engineers 1st January 2020 – present.

Member of Society Of Engineers 1st January 2022 – present.

Chair of 1st Bardney Scout Group.

Abigail Leigh

 

ACC member

Staff Member

10 October 2024

4 years

 

Trust

 

Christina Horton

 

ACC member

Staff Member

10 October 2024

4 years

 

Trust

 

John Beavan

ACC member

Community Member

29 January 2025

4 years

 

Trust

Head Teacher of Westgate Academy 1st September 2025 - 31st August 2026

Our Governance Professional (clerk to the ACC) is Alison White. ACC members can be contacted via our Governance Professional at governance@anthemtrust.uk.

A summary table of ACCms' interests and meeting attendance for the last full academic year can be found on https://www.anthemtrust.uk/governance

 

Do you want to make a difference?

We currently have Champion role vacancies for ACCms who are passionate about contributing to our school and community.  If you are interested in finding more out about being part of our school’s ACC, we would love to hear from you!   For further details, please click on the link below:

Anthem Community Council Expression of Interest Form