Mr Jonathan Rawes

− Trustee role and responsibilities: Chair of Trustees, Safeguarding Trustee
− Qualifications: MA (Oxon), Solicitor, Postgraduate Certificate in Charity Management
− Professional focus: Commercial law, charity governance
− Experience in public or commercial life:
─ Lawyer with Reuters for 20 years, including three years in Asia
─ Trustee of Magic Bus (a children’s charity in India)
− Hobbies: Music (piano, singing), sport, reading, walking

Mr Geoff Ash

− Trustee role and responsibilities: Chairman of the Finance & Marketing Committee
− Qualifications: Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants (CIPFA)
− Professional focus: Financial stewardship
− Experience in public or commercial life:
─ Professional accountant working in both the public and commercial sector for 35 years
─ Chief Accountant and Chief Internal Auditor for Thames Water following privatisation of the water industry
− Hobbies: Hockey, cricket and golf

Mr Angus Cater

− Trustee role and responsibilities: Member of the Finance & Marketing Committee
− Qualifications: MA in Strategic Financial Management, Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance (ACCA), Cert PFS (CII), Qualified Stockbroker (by Diploma)
− Professional focus: Finance
− Experience in public or commercial life: Managing Director then Chairman of SFS Group Ltd (an insurance broker specialising in Independent schools), Board Chairman of Vistage U.K Ltd, Treasurer of Sherborne in the Community
− Hobbies: Sailing, running, bridge

Mr David Crawford

− Trustee role and responsibilities: Member of the Finance & Marketing Committee
− Qualifications: BA, BSc (Hon)
− Professional focus: Leadership in independent education, mentoring, appraisal
− Experience in public or commercial life:
─ Headmaster of Colston’s School 1995–2005
─ Headmaster of Cokethorpe School 1989–1995
─ Teacher at Bryanston and Abingdon Schools
─ Chairman of the Society of Heads
─ Chair of IMB Pucklechurch Young Offenders’ Institute
─ Chair Brook Advisory Service Bristol
− Hobbies: Golf, rugby, hill walking, aviation, natural history

Mrs Deidre Dyson

− Trustee role and responsibilities: Member of Education Committee
− Qualifications: BA (Hons) French, Cert TEFLA
− Professional focus: EAL teacher
− Experience in public or commercial life:
─ Member of Foreign Office for 30 years travelling the world from post to post
─ Language teacher for over 14 years
─ Numerous voluntary projects
− Hobbies: Walking, cycling, travel, gardening, reading

Mrs Tina Elder

− Trustee role and responsibilities: Member of the Finance & Marketing Committee
− Qualifications: BSc (Chemistry), MBA
− Professional focus: Management consultancy (strategy, leadership and organisational design)
− Experience in public or commercial life:
─ VP A&D Gemini Consulting
─ Partner EMLP (Oslo)
─ Mentor
─ Charity Mentors
− Hobbies: Nordic walking, travel, theatre, opera

Prof. Nicholas Mann

− Trustee role and responsibilities: Chair of Education Committee
− Qualifications: MA, PhD, Hon. DLitt, CBE, FBA
− Professional focus: Higher Education (Humanities)
− Experience in public or commercial life:
─ University teacher (Cambridge, Warwick, Oxford, London)
─ Foreign Secretary (Vice president for international affairs) of the British Academy
─ Trustee of arts-related charitable organisations
− Hobbies: Sculpture, poetry, yoga

Mr John Miller

− Trustee role and responsibilities: Co-Deputy Chair of Trustees, Health and Safety Trustee
− Qualifications: Agricultural College (NCA), Institute of Agricultural Management (IAGIM)
− Professional focus: Agriculture, environment and countryside
− Experience in public or commercial life:
─ Parish Council from 2004
─ High Sheriff of Berkshire 2006
─ Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire from 2009
─ President of Reading Cricket and Hockey Club
─ Chairman of Committee of Real Ale & Jazz Festival of Reading for 24 years
− Hobbies: Cricket, hockey, golf, shooting, skiing, walking, gardening, woodturning, local history society

Mr Jeremy Robertson

− Trustee role and responsibilities: Safer Recruitment and Safeguarding Children Trustee
− Qualifications: B.Ed (Hons), Dip Ed, Cert Ed
− Professional focus: Teacher and Principal
− Experience in public or commercial life:
─ Headmaster of a charity-based independent residential school until 2007
─ Teacher for 36 years
− Hobbies: Golf, sailing, gardening, house renovation, National Trust volunteer, local history

Mr John West

− Trustee role and responsibilities: Co-Deputy Chair of Trustees, Member of the Finance & Marketing Committee
− Qualifications: Undergraduate Diploma in Biblical and Theological Studies (University of Oxford), HND Business Studies
− Professional focus: Property development
− Experience in public or commercial life:
─ Company Finance Director
─ Residential developer
─ Trustee and treasurer to two charities
─ Governor of a state primary school
− Hobbies: Gardening, writing, travelling

The Chair of Trustees or any Trustee may be contacted in confidence by emailing the Clerk to the Trustees to bursar@padworth.com or by writing to:

Chair of Trustees
c/o Padworth College
Sopers Lane
Padworth
Reading RG7 4NR
United Kingdom