Responsibilities

Oasis Charitable Trust is the sole member of Oasis Community Learning (OCL) and appoints members of the OCL board.

The information on governance included here supplements that described in the Directors’ Report and the Statement of the Directors’ Responsibilities. The Board has met formally four times during the year.  Attendance during the year at Board meetings was as follows:

Name of Director				Attendance during 2023/24 academic year
	Appointed	Term Ends	Resigned	Attended	Out of a possible
Nicholas Bent	1 April 2008	N/A	8 Feb 2024	1	2
Andrew Blundell	11 Oct 2012	21 Jan 2025		2	4
Craig Dean	9 Oct 2014	9 Oct 2026		4	4
Ann Holt	13 Sept 2007	10 Oct 2027		4	4
Ali Layne- Smith	13 Feb 2020	N/A	14 Mar 2024	2	2
Stan Chan	24 Mar 2022	24 Mar 2026		3	4
Dave Rasmussen	6 Jan 2020	16 Jan 2028		4	4
Caroline Taylor (Chair)	21 Oct 2021	21 Oct 2025		4	4
Andrew Simmonds	24 April 2009	16 Mar 2025		4	4
Dr Gordon Carver	16 March 2023	16 Mar 2027		4	4
Julian Scholefield	16 March 2023	16 Mar 2027		4	4
Rachel Arthur	17 March 2023	17 Mar 2027		1	1
Dr Grace Healy	9 May 2024	9 May 2028		2	2
Dr Yvette Hutchinson	9 May 2024	9 May 2028		1	2
Jayne Keller	24 May 2024	24 May 2028		1	1
Christabel Fearon	9 May 2024	9 May 2028		1	2
Rob Allen	3 June 2024	3 June 2028		0	1

The Board has appointed seven sub-committees:

(a) The Audit & Risk Committee (Chair: Andy Simmonds) whose responsibilities cover:

• Internal controls and risk management
• Compliance, whistleblowing and fraud
• Policy review
• Internal Audit
• External Audit and statutory financial reporting

(b) A Board Finance Committee (Chair: Stan Chan). Its responsibilities cover:

• Financial strategy
• Monitoring and review
• Budget
• Treasury
• Governance & Regulation

(c) The Curriculum & Learning Committee (formerly the Performance Evaluation Committee) (Chair: Andy Blundell) whose responsibilities cover:

• Evaluation of key indicators, especially educational performance data
• Assessing progress of the academies over time against National OCL targets
• Identifying success and urgent priorities for remedial action

(d) The People Committee (Chair: Craig Dean is the Chair of People & Remuneration Committee), whose responsibilities cover:

• Organisational culture, ensuring our organisation is fully inclusive and in line with our ethos and 9 Habits
• Seeking assurance that our policy framework is compliant, speaks into who we are as an organisation and is successfully implemented/monitored.
• Evaluate KPIs and wellbeing indicators.
• Succession planning and our CPD offer, ensuring that it meets the current and future needs of Oasis Community Learning.
• To monitor the relationship and benefits of the work between NIOT and Oasis.
• To maintain oversight of high-risk people cases

(e) The Remuneration Committee (Chair: Craig Dean is the Chair of People & Remuneration Committee) whose responsibilities cover:

• Oversight and maintenance of a cohesive set of appropriate pay scales and terms & conditions for OCL staff.
• Oversight of the most appropriate way of evaluating pay.
• Monitoring equal pay in accordance with the Equalities Act 2010.
• Report to the Board on areas related to pay and reward including policy changes, updates, (legislative and OCL driven) new initiatives and projects.

(f) The Growth Committee (Chair: Caroline Taylor) whose responsibilities cover:

• Governance oversight to ensure that OCL’s growth strategy furthers the Oasis vision for community and enables OCL to deliver its strategic objectives.
• To seek assurance that effective risk management and the due diligence process is compliant with DfE/legal frameworks and is successfully implemented/monitored.
• To maintain oversight of growth, ensuring that it meets the current and future needs of OCL and our commitment to our local communities.
• To approve free school/convertor/sponsored schools joining OCL in line with the organisational strategy. If a recommendation is not in line with the organisational strategy this should be presented to the full OCL Board

(g) The Complex Projects Committee (Chair: Caroline Taylor) whose responsibilities cover:

• Programme and Change Management;
• Cross organizational communication
• Capacity Management
• Risk Management

Attendance at Sub Committee meetings

Attendance during 2023/24 academic year
	Attended	Out of a possible
Audit & Risk Committee
Andrew Simmonds (Chair)	4	4
Stan Chan	4	4
Dave Rasmussen	3	4
Caroline Taylor	2	4
Rob Allen	1	1
Curriculum and Learning Committee
Andrew Blundell (Chair)	4	4
Caroline Taylor	3	4
Ann Holt	4	4
Rachel Arthur	1	1
Julian Scholefield	3	4
Craig Dean	4	4
Nick Bent	0	2
Grace Healy	1	1
Finance Committee
Stan Chan (Chair)	4	4
Andrew Simmonds	4	4
Caroline Taylor	3	4
Dave Rasmussen	3	4
Julian Scholefield	3	4
People and Renumeration Committee
Ali Layne-Smith (Resigned as Chair March 2024)	3	3
Caroline Taylor	3	4
Ann Holt	4	4
Andy Blundell	3	4
Craig Dean (Chair as of December 2024)	4	4
Growth Committee
Caroline Taylor (Chair)	2	2
Andy Simmonds	1	2
Andy Blundell	2	2
Craig Dean	2	2
Complex Projects Committee
Caroline Taylor (Chair)	3	3
Andy Simmonds	3	3
Gordon Carver	2	3
Stan Chan	3	3

Oasis Community Learning – Business & Pecuniary Interests of Board members

Board Member	Relevant Business Interests	Date Interest Began	Date Interest Ceased (if applicable)
Andrew Blundell	Trustee of Tonbridge Gold (DofE Gold Expedition training and assessment) Trustee of the Sheppey Endowment Fund	13/08/2018 15/12/2021
Craig Dean	Director of Egisly Consulting Ltd Coach - National Institute of Teaching Trustee of Oldham Community Leisure Trustee of The Society for Neurodiversity (S4Nd) Director of Oasis IT Services (subsidiary of OCL)	20/02/2020 02/06/2024 02/05/2022 25/09/2024 01/10/2021
Ann Holt	Trustee of Culham St Gabriel Trust (Religious Education Charity) Trustee of Oasis Restore (subsidiary of OCT)	01/09/2016 16/11/2022
Andrew Simmonds	Director of Oasis IT Services Ltd (subsidiary of OCL)	17/11/2016
Dave Rasmussen	Nil
Stan Chan	Trustee and Director of Better Society Capital Trustee of Raileigh International Trustee of CBF Church of England Investment Funds	01/12/2022 03/12/2015 06/11/2017
Caroline Taylor	Trustee of Oasis Charitable Trust (OCL’s parent company)	30/09/2020
Julian Scholefield	CEO, Esteem Multi-Academy Trust – Multi-Academy Trust Trustee for the National Autistic Society	01/08/2018 01/01/2024
Gordon Carver	Director - Arboreum Ltd - Education Consultancy  Trustee - Lively Minds - Childhood Development Charity Employee of Empowering Education International Ltd (trading as Etio)	01/12/2016 01/01/2018 01/05/2023
Rachel Arthur	Head of Computing at Teach First
Dr Grace Healy	Employee, Education Director (Secondary), David Ross Education Trust Honorary Research Fellow, University of Oxford Honorary Associate Professor, UCL Associate Fellow, UCL Centre of Climate Change and Sustainability Education Member & Treasurer, Geography Education Research Collective with UK IGU-CGE External Examiner, Nottingham Trent University Advisory Group, UCL Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research Expert Panel, Oak National Academy Subject Expert Group Member, Knowledge & Quality across School Subjects & Teacher Education Network Leadership Group, UCL Curriculum Subject Specialist Research Group (CSSRG) Member, Ofsted Geography Reference Group Associate Editor & Editorial Board Member, The Curriculum Journal Editorial Board, London Review of Education Editorial Board, Teaching Geography Member, BERA's Publications Committee	01/01/2020 01/10/2022 15/07/2024 01/06/2023 01/07/2019 01/03/2023 01/01/2020 01/01/2020 01/01/2020 01/01/2019 01/01/2020 01/01/2019 01/01/2019 01/01/2019
Yvette Hutchinson	Director of the Institute for Educational and Social Equity Trustee of Icolyn Smith Foundation	01/01/2023 01/01/2017
Christabel Fearon	Nil
Jayne Keller	Employee Education South West, Director of School Improvement	01/09/2022
Rob Allen	Deloitte LLP, Director Co-Founder, Scunthorpe Tomorrow	22/11/2021 05/06/2023
John Barneby (CEO & Accounting Officer)	Trustee & Director of School Led Development Trust/National Institute of Teaching Chair of Governors at Mayhill Primary School