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Governance

All Academy Trusts have two layers of governance – Members and Directors. Some (like NCLT) choose to have a third, i.e., Advisory Groups. Details of Members and Directors can be found on the Trust’s website – https://nclt.ac.uk/governance-information. Our Advisory Group can be found below.

All governance and financial information can be found on the Trust policies page – https://nclt.ac.uk/policies

Current Advisory Group members

Brendon Fletcher

(Ex Officio)

Principal NCD

Alison Megahy

Chair of the NCD Advisory Group – Board Appointed

Date Appointed: 10/10/2018

Date Re-Appointed: 10/10/2022

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Alison retired from a career as a teacher and manager in a diverse range of education settings. After teaching in FE and HE she progressed to Head of Sixth Form/Assistant Headteacher in two large secondary schools. She then took a role as a Senior Advisor at Doncaster Local Authority, responsible for implementing the 14-19 strategy, monitoring activity across the borough’s secondary schools and supporting structural intervention. Alison’s last position was Vice Principal at Longley Park Sixth Form College in Sheffield, with responsibility for curriculum and quality, where she worked for the last decade of her career before retiring in the summer of 2019. Throughout her career, Alison has persistently championed strategies to improve teaching, learning and assessment to impact positively on the life chances of young people. Alison became an Advisor at New College Doncaster when her youngest daughter was studying A levels there and became Chair the following year.

Rachel Haldenby

Vice Chair
Careers Link Advisor  – Board Appointed

Date Appointed: 05/07/2021

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After qualifying as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Birmingham and Leeds, Rachel spent time in industry before having children and training as a teacher. She learnt her craft at Carleton Community High School in Pontefract in the maths department developing partnership links within Wakefield authority to promote Gifted & Talented activities outside the classroom. She has held a number of departmental and pastoral roles which means she has skills in strategic planning. She has a keen interest in ensuring autistic people are better understood and supported to reach their potential.

Arshad Khaliq

Advisor – Board Appointed

Date Appointed: 05/07/2021

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Arshad is a seasoned senior manager and executive with over twenty years of expertise gained within complex public-sector organisations, offshore companies and the voluntary sector. He had an expert level understanding of transformation management that began early in his career from a supplier perspective and as his career progressed within the public sector, he became very familiar with the benefits and risks that are often attached to managing large scale business change. He has demonstrable success in improving public services and applying good business practices to achieve beneficial results with strong intellectual and analytical abilities. He has excellent knowledge of best practice programme/project management delivery methodologies and a successful record of achievement implementing project governance and maintaining financial control. He is highly committed to good corporate governance at board level He developed a newfound interest in applied academia and exploring my authentic values in leadership. These values stem from wishing to be socially responsible and playing a part in preparing the next generation. His board experience specialities revolve around governance; culture; strategy; change; risk; and management and leadership. he is a practising Muslim with three children. Having suffered in silence for many years regarding his deafness, he learned to overcome my physical impairment. he has a keen interest in our climate and the impact of human consumption and its consequences. Recently, he has further developed his life-long passion for diversity, inclusion and equality reflecting upon his own experiences. He continues reading and attending lectures, debates and discussions aiming to promote a healthy environment for transformational change.

Jackie Hamer

Advisor – Board Appointed

Date appointed:
06/02/2023

Patricia Bryn-Jones

Safeguarding, SEND and LAC Link Advisor – Board Appointed

Date appointed:
23/01/2024

All of the Advisory Group members (except the Principal) serve a 4 year term of office.

The group are currently seeking parents to join the group. 

Advisory Group members who have stepped down

No former members in the last 12 months.

Other Information:

We are currently seeking parents to join the Advisory Group. Please contact samantha.corbett@nclt.ac.uk for further details.

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