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.

• Emma Gilbert

  CFO

• Tracey Allen

  Workforce Development Manager

  Tracey worked in a corporate business environment in London and Hertfordshire for over twenty years prior to joining the Trust in June 2016.

• 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.

• Louise Murray

  Finance and HR Assistant

• Caroline Jewell

  SEND Adviser

• Diane Jones

  Administrative Assistant

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

• 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.

• Rebecca Reed

  SEND Outreach Practitioner

• Victoria Newman

  SEND Outreach Practitioner

• Emilie Warren

  SEND Outreach Operations Manager

• Helen Green

  Specialist Intervention Team (SIT) Manager

• Louise Timms

  Finance Manager

• Steven Pope

  Trust HR Manager

• Kim Wells

  SPT Finance Assistant

Trust Executive Leadership Team

• Ruth Zimmerman

  SEN Director

• Guy Chappell

  Director

• Ruth Carpenter

  Headteacher

  Nancealverne

• Heidi Hoskin

  Headteacher

  Doubletrees

• Nicola Jones

  Headteacher

  Orchard Manor School

• Jodie Watkins-Young

  Acting Headteacher

  Pencalenick

• Rob Armstrong

  Headteacher

  Curnow

• Vikki Alden

  Headteacher

  Brunel

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.

• Andrew Fielder

  Trustee

  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.

• Joy Constable

  Trustee

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.

• Judy Brinson

  Member

• Neil McKay

  Member