Trust Support Team

• Guy Chappell

  CEO

  Guy is an experienced CEO with extensive board room experience as both a CEO and Trustee. He has worked in both the commercial, voluntary and public sector.

• Ruth Zimmerman

  SEN Director

  Ruth has worked in Special Education for over 25 years - working in a range of different schools and settings across all age groups.

• Emma Gilbert

  CFO

• Caroline Jewell

  SEND Advisor

• Amanda Burrows

  SEND Advisor

• Dean Wheable

  Asset and Estates Manager

• Louise Timms

  Finance Manager

• Jasmine Coole

  Assistant Finance and Payroll Manager

• Lucy Hamilton-Reeve

  HR Lead

• Lianne Jory

  Leadership and Governance Manager

  Lianne joined the Trust in November 2019 and provides leadership and governance support to Members, Trustee and the Local Governing Bodies.

• Helen Green

  Specialist Intervention Team (SIT) Manager

• Rebecca Reed

  Specialist Outreach & CPD Development Manager

• Ella Sherwood-Hoadley

  Inclusive Education Health Lead

• Diane Jones

  Project Administrator

  Diane started working with the Special Partnership Trust in May 2021 as Administrative Assistant.

• Jennie Francis

  Learning Community & Communications Support Administrator

• Helen Hudson

  Governance Administrator

• Jade Howie

  Business Management Assistant

• Kora Olson

  Business Administration Apprentice

• William Sells

  Finance Apprentice

Trustees

• Janet Hudson

  Janet qualified as a social worker in 1972, with a degree and diploma from Keele University.

• Lisa Michell

  Trustee, (Retired Headteacher - Primary)

  Lisa taught in primary schools for over twenty years.

• John Rail

  Trustee (H&S)

  John was born near Pencalenick School and has lived his whole life in Truro.

• Pauline Robins

  Trustee, (Retired HMI-Ofsted)

  Pauline worked as one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of schools from 2004 until September 2013.

• Marie Cooke

  Trustee (Secondary/MAT)

  Marie Cooke was CEO of Kemeneth Multi Academy Trust after 21 years as Headteacher at Penryn College, a secondary school with an Area Resource Base for young people with learning needs.

• Alison Cook

  Chair of Trustees

  Alison worked as a Registered General Nurse from 1984 until she retired in 2020 as a Service Director of Children’s Services at Cornwall Council.

• Wendy Hannon

  Trustee

  Wendy has recently retired from a career which has been colourful and varied. The last 20 years she has worked in Public Health specialising in Sexual Health which included HIV and then Teenage Pregnancy covering the County of Devon.

• Joy Constable

  Trustee

  My name is Joy Constable, I joined the Trust as a parent Trustee a year ago after being a governor, vice chair and finally chair of governors at Curnow School.

Trust Executive Leadership Team

• Guy Chappell

  Director

• Ruth Zimmerman

  SEN Director

• Emma Gilbert

  CFO

• Ruth Carpenter

  Headteacher

  Nancealverne

• Heidi Hoskin

  Headteacher

  Doubletrees

• Nicola Jones

  Headteacher

  Orchard Manor School

• Joe McGovern

  HeadTeacher

  Pencalenick

• Rob Armstrong

  Headteacher

  Curnow

• Vikki Alden

  Headteacher

  Brunel

• Sarah Pickering

  Headteacher

  Mill Water School

• Josh Tyers

  Headteacher

  Bosvena School

• Bridget Williams

  Head of Provision

  Castlebridge School - Tavistock Hub

• Jennie Harvey

  Headteacher

  Lampard School

Members

• Tim Hooper

  Member

  Tim has been a Trustee for the Special Partnership Trust since September 2019. During this time, he has been appointed as Chair of both the Finance Committee and Audit Committee. In September 2022 Tim stepped down as Trustee to become a Member.

• David Barton

  Member

  Following 35 years teaching in secondary schools across England, twenty five of them as a senior leader and manager, David first moved to Cornwall in 1996 to take up the post of Deputy Head at Wadebridge School.

• Andrew Fielder

  Member

  After many years as a teacher and Head Teacher, saw the opportunities on offer and committed wholeheartedly to the academy programme in 2010. As an outstanding school Sandy Hill Primary was qualified to be an early converter. From that point he built an extremely effective team becoming quickly the CEO of one of the largest and most successful Trusts in the south west.

• Judy Brinson

  Member

• Neil McKay

  Member