📣 Would you like to be a Parent Trustee at Fareham Academy?
🏫 We have a vacancy for a Parent Trustee that we will need to fill in December 2026.
🤝 We also have vacancies for trustees who can evidence appropriate skills and knowledge which will benefit the Trust Board (Finance, Education, Business, Data, Leadership, HR).
📋 The Trust Board has the following purpose:
🎯 Establishing the strategic leadership of the academy trust:
The board defines the trust vision for high quality and inclusive education in line with its charitable objects. It establishes and fosters the trust’s culture; and sets and champions the trust strategy including determining governance delegations.
✅ Ensuring accountability and assurance:
The board has robust effective oversight of the operations and performance of the academy trust, including the provision of education, pupil welfare, overseeing and ensuring appropriate use of funding and effective financial performance and keeping their estate safe and well maintained.
💬 Establishing engagement:
The board has strategic oversight of relationships with stakeholders. The board involves parents, schools and communities so that decision making is supported by meaningful engagement.
⭐ Skills, experience and attributes desired:
• 🎓 A passion for ensuring that all students receive the best possible education and opportunities (essential)
• 😊 A positive attitude (essential)
• 🕒 Time to give to the school, and a willingness to give that time, both during school time and at evening meetings (essential)
• 💼 Background experience of working within the private sector (desirable)
📚 Training and support will be provided. More information can be obtained from the clerk to the Trust Board.
📩 Please contact the clerk to the Trust Board, Hannah Hamper, on h.hamper@fareham-academy.co.uk for an application form.
📅 DEADLINE: Friday 6th November 2026 at 12.00 noon.
Applications for Parent Trustee must be completed and returned to the school by this deadline.
🔎 All applicants are subject to an identity check and enhanced DBS check.
🗳️ If there is more than one applicant, an election will be held and all parents of a student at Fareham Academy will be given the opportunity to vote.