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Declaration of Interests 19-20 Declaration of Interests 19-20 Rec'd School Position Lois Whitehouse Y IET Accounting Officer No interests declared Antoinette Heffernan Y IET Chief Financial Officer No interests declared Governor - Stoke Park School Director – Central Academies Trust Jane Durkin Y IET Head of Operations Associate Work – ISBL Assessor and Moderator for SBM Programmes - Serco Head of Primary Robert Darling Y IET No interests declared Education Tom McKelvie Father Emma Dean Y IET Executive Assistant Dalvie Systems Esther Stewart Y IET Finance Officer No interests declared Beth Manning Y IET Finance Officer No interests declared Lead Practitioner - Amy Husband Y IET No interests declared MAT Capacity team Teaching and Jo Upton Y IET No interests declared Learning Consultant Leadership Kim Docking Y IET No interests declared Consultant Paul Cowley Y IET Network Manager No interests declared Strategic Network Tom Carter Y IET No interests declared Manager Laura Bee Y IET Finance Officer No interests declared Louise O'Reilly Y IET Finance Officer No interests declared Governor - Frederick Bird Victoria Shelley Y Blue Coat Head School Lisa Henden Y Blue Coat Deputy Head No interests declared Neil Phipps Y Blue Coat Assistant Head No interests declared Jennifer Davoile Y Blue Coat Assistant Head No interests declared Alex Tomlinson Y Blue Coat Assistant Head No interests declared Claire Milbourne Y Blue Coat Assistant Head No interests declared Zara Yasmeen Y Blue Coat Assistant Head No interests declared Gemma Hathaway Y Blue Coat Assistant Head No interests declared Kay Grainger Y Blue Coat Headteachers PA No interests declared Rashid Bhayat, Positive Youth Rumana Bhayat Y Blue Coat Behaviour Manager Foundation - Husband Madaleine Morgan Y Clifford Head No interests declared Recbecca Moore Y Clifford Co-Head No interests declared Alex Dainty Y Clifford Assistant Head No interests declared Jane Hiscox Y Clifford Office Manager No interests declared Louise Wanley Y Clifford Admin Assistant No interests declared Andrea Bee Y Clifford Admin Assistant No interests declared Lorraine Collins Y Clifford Resources Assistant No interests declared Sally Skidmore Y Clifford Admin Assistant No interests declared Claire Jones Y Hearsall Head No interests declared Matthew Thomas Y Hearsall Deputy Head No interests declared Anne-Marie Stapleton Y Hearsall Office Manager No interests declared Lucy Vickers Y Hearsall Admin Assistant No interests declared Michelle Broadhurst Y Hearsall Admin Assistant No interests declared Gill Bowser Y Stockingford Head No interests declared Lindsay Banes Y Stockingford Deputy Head No interests declared Jane Sparrow Y Stockingford Assistant Head No interests declared Teacher ST Klarianne Clark – Wife Scott Clark Y Stockingford Assistant Head Cleaner ST Helen DeVogel – Mother in law Tracey Anderson Y Stockingford Office Manager No interests declared Linda Steele Y Stockingford Admin Assistant No interests declared Moira Leedham Y Stockingford Admin Assistant No interests declared Damien Sowerby Y Walsgrave Head No interests declared Amy Ginger Y Walsgrave Assistant Head No interests declared Stacy Hands Y Walsgrave Office Manager No interests declared Sabrina Choudhry Y Walsgrave Admin Assistant No interests declared Leah Goodyer Y Walsgrave Resource Assistant No interests declared Michelle Harris Y Whittle Head No interests declared Matt Woods Y Whittle Deputy Head No interests declared Chris Eales Y Whittle Office Manager No interests declared Tracey Zinagas Y Whittle Admin Assistant No interests declared Louise Westley Y Whittle Admin Assistant No interests declared Steve Gold, Church of England – Priest in charge Director of Education – April Gold Y IET Member Coventry Diocesan Board of Education Trustee – Together for Change Eileen Leech Y IET Member No interests declared Teaching Assistant WA - Helen L Paul Smith Y IET Member Smith – Wife Timothy Cocksworth – son – TJ Rev Christopher Y IET Member Services Cocksworth See detailed interests below. Graham Wise Y IET Director No interests declared Malcolm Tyler Y IET Director No interests declared David Kershaw Y IET Director No interests declared Lisa Hayes Y IET Director No interests declared Trustee – Hill Street Youth and Mark Gore Y IET Director Community Centre Teacher at CB - Kathryn Rachel Mason Y IET Director Gardiner - Sister in Law Member - Cov Diocesan Board of Education Vice-Chare Governor – St Johns Academy Coventry Member & Chair – CCC Schools Sybil Hanson Y IET Director forum Member – WCC Schools forum Co-opted Member – CCC Scrutiny board 2 Trustee – Martha Flint & Emma Osmond Foundation THE RIGHT REVEREND DR CHRISTOPHER COCKSWORTH DECLARATION OF INTERESTS – JULY 2020 Current responsibilities in the national life of the Church of England Chair of Church of England Faith and Order Commission; Member of the House of Bishops’ Standing Committee; Member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved; Chair of the Co-ordinating Group for the Episcopal Teaching Document on Marriage and Human Sexuality (Living in Love and Faith project) Former responsibilities in the national life of the Church of England Member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission 1996-2006; Co-Chair of the Joint Implementation Commission of the Anglian Methodist Covenant 2009-2014; Chair of the Reformation 500th Anniversary Planning Group Membership of the House of Lords Lord Spiritual from January 2013 (with special areas of interest in education, ethics of beginning and end of life; foreign affairs, especially in relation to matters of conflict, war, peace and reconciliation) Active membership of All Party Parliamentary Groups APPG for International Religious Freedom or Belief; APPG for the Religious Minorities in Pakistan Other membership The Society for the Study of Theology; The Society of Liturgical Study; The Farmers’ Club; Nobody’s Friends; Garden Organic; Nikaean Club; Board of Reference, Christian Solidarity Worldwide; Member, Diocese of Coventry Multi-Academy Trust; Member, Arden Forest C of E Academy; Member, Blue Coat C of E Academy; Member, Henley-in-Arden C of E Academy. Patronage, Trusteeship, Chairmanship and Visitor etc Chairmanship Inter Religious Platform for Article 18 Trusteeship Coventry 2020 Educational Trust (Chair of Trustees); Frauenkirche Foundation, Dresden; Dudley Lodge Family Assessment Centre and St Faith’s Centre, Coventry (Chair of Trustees); Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (ex-officio). Patronage British People of Asian Origin (BOPA); Hope for Rugby; Mary Ann Evans Hospice, Nuneaton; Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre (including Hope Destitution Fund); Coventry Food Bank; Rugby Food Bank; Radio Plus, Coventry; Dresden Trust (ex-officio); CORD (Christian Outreach Relief and Development); CREATE; International Friendship and Reconciliation Trust; African Pastors’ Fellowship; Global Care; Barcheston in Peril; Positive about Young; Keeping Health in Mind; Historic Coventry Trust; Coventry Street Pastors; St Peter’s Saltley Trust Presidency etc President of YMCA Coventry and Warwickshire; Friends of Coventry Cathedral; The Saints Project Trust; Co-President of the Heart of England Community Foundation; Warwickshire County Cricket Club (ex-officio Vice-President); Dugdale Society (Vice-President); Medical and Life Sciences Research Fund (Vice-President). Visitor Episcopal Visitor to the Community of St Hilda and St Aidan Episcopal Visitor to CMS Visitor to Lord Leycester Hospital (ex-officio) .
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