Registered charity · Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire East Schools Trust LTD
- 7 trustees
- Income £71k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Ilona BondChair · since 2020
- Anthony SandersonTrustee · since 2020
- Ashaab Akhtar Hussein AhamedTrustee · since 2024
- David MorganTrustee · since 2020
- Dr Alan LeeTrustee · since 2018
- Maggie Farrar CBETrustee · since 2024
- Nafia BaustTrustee · since 2024
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 1 other charity:
- The School of Contemplative Life · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Central Bedfordshire
- Website
- www.bestacademies.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Bedfordshire East Schools Trust Limited
- Registered
- 2009
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£71k£102k
- 2024£72k£74k
- 2023£69k£96k
Earlier years
- 2022£39k£146k
- 2021£67k£102k
Charitable objects
THE OBJECT OF THE TRUST IS TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS AT THE SCHOOLS ANDOTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY
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Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
7 trustees on the board
- Ilona Bond Chair since 2020
- Anthony Sanderson since 2020
- Ashaab Akhtar Hussein Ahamed since 2024
- David Morgan since 2020
- Dr Alan Lee since 2018
- Maggie Farrar CBE since 2024
- Nafia Baust since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Alan Lee since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Ilona Bond Chair since 2020
- Anthony Sanderson since 2020
- Ashaab Akhtar Hussein Ahamed since 2024
- David Morgan since 2020
- Dr Alan Lee since 2018
- Nafia Baust since 2024
Portfolio (1)
- Maggie Farrar CBE since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1132611
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1 APRIL 2009 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 8 OCTOBER 2009
- Companies House
- Company number 06865093 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07880334564 · gbaust@bestacademies.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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