A senior Human Resources professional with over 20 years’ experience working in both Advisory and Strategic capacities and with extensive experience in Change Management, Management Development and Employee Relations.

Merlyn is a Trustee and Committee Chair for the Quartet Community Foundation and continues to work as a board member on a community trust board as well as being a Trustee for Cathedral Schools Trust and a Governor for Bristol Cathedral Choir School.

Andrew Wright BA (Hons) FCA is a Chartered Accountant and an Audit Partner with Deloitte LLP and has over 21 years’ experience of working with and advising dynamic organisations experiencing significant change.  He leads the Bristol Audit practice consisting of a team of over 150 people and he also has a National responsibility for quality and transformation. He has significant experience of working alongside Boards and providing strategic advice and he is well versed in risk assessment and financial due diligence.  He has a strong history of supporting local charities having participated in the 1625 Independent People sleep out in November and previously cycled 960 miles from John O’Groats to Land’s End in nine days.

Richard Wheeler has been a senior school leader and Head of 6^th Form for nearly 30 years in three schools across North Somerset and Bristol and co-chair of the Bristol Heads of Post-16 group. During that time Richard has been an A Level teacher of Maths, Philosophy, RE, Computing, Critical Thinking and Extended Project, and has wider interests in Music, History, Politics and Sciences. He has extensive experience in preparing young people for Higher Education applications and in enabling them to become active and engaged citizens through such things as promoting student leadership, social activism and debating.

Caroline works for the NHS as a Registered Physiotherapist, providing rehabilitation for adults who have experienced a brain injury.  In this role, she has gained wide ranging experience of assessing and managing complex safeguarding risks and supporting people who have experienced trauma.  In addition, she does competence and conduct standards work in healthcare regulation and is a trustee for a charity that supports some of the poorest communities in the Dominican Republic.

Sally currently works for Natural England in a Talent Management and Learning & Development role and has a keen interest in education. She has worked extensively in Secondary Education, leading as both Head of Dance and PSHE Lead at St Gregory’s in Bath, as well as a secondment onto the Senior Leadership Team, so has an understanding and experience of the broader issues facing education, including Ofsted and the National Curriculum, both from a teaching and parental perspective. It is an honour to represent as parent governor and support Trinity Academy as it takes the next steps forward in its exciting journey.

Eiron previously held the post of Director of Music Specialism and Assistant Principal at BCCS and was a Senior Education Adviser to Bristol Plays Music.  He chairs the Heads of Music forum for Bristol and has been a keynote speaker at a number of conferences and training events. He has worked in five very different schools across the UK and is also a very busy music conductor and performer.  Eiron was appointed as Musical Director of the Bristol Youth Orchestra in 2013.