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The Independent Schools Association

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Previous officers 157

  1. Francesca Lea Ellsmoor 2025-2026 Director View profile
  2. Emma Bell 2025-2025 Director View profile
  3. Rebecca Jane Harrison 2025-2026 Director View profile
  4. Andrew James Hammond 2023-2024 Director View profile
  5. Irfan Hamid Latif 2022-2026 Director View profile
  6. Claire Rosanna Osborn 2022-2025 Director View profile
  7. Christopher James Hammond 2022-2024 Director View profile
  8. Oliver Scott 2022-2025 Director View profile
  9. Lawrence Grenville Collins 2021-2024 Director View profile
  10. Dan John Sayers 2020-2022 Director View profile
  11. Natasha Louise Kefford Dangerfield 2020-2025 Director View profile
  12. Dr Sarah Jane Welch 2020-2022 Director View profile
  13. Claudette Salmon 2020-2023 Director View profile
  14. Elizabeth Ann Brown 2018-2021 Director View profile
  15. Helen Ruth Stanton-Tonner 2018-2021 Director View profile
  16. Penelope Rosalind Ford 2018-2023 Director View profile
  17. Adrian Moreton Blake 2018-2021 Director View profile
  18. Kishwar Ali 2017-2018 Director View profile
  19. Tracey Ann Wilson 2017-2023 Director View profile
  20. David Antony Turner Ward 2017-2018 Director View profile
  21. Dionne Emma Seagrove 2017-2025 Director View profile
  22. John Southworth 2017-2023 Director View profile
  23. Helen Chalmers 2017-2024 Director View profile
  24. Kaye Marilyn Lovejoy 2017-2020 Director View profile
  25. Philip Alexander Soutar 2016-2025 Director View profile
  26. Stephen Mckernan 2016-2024 Director View profile
  27. Richard Michael Walden 2016-2024 Director View profile
  28. Graham Neill Gamble 2016-2016 Director View profile
  29. Steven Daniel Boyes 2015-2016 Director View profile
  30. John Robert Wood 2015-2020 Director View profile
  31. Pamela Susan Hutley 2015-2021 Director View profile
  32. Barry George Huggett 2015-2023 Director View profile
  33. Amjad Vaqar Ahmed 2015-2018 Director View profile
  34. Nilesh Motilal Manani 2015-2018 Director View profile
  35. Adrian Moreton Blake 2015-2017 Director View profile
  36. Steven Richard Jandrell 2014-2016 Director View profile
  37. Dr Peter James Woodroffe 2014-2016 Director View profile
  38. Jonathan Philip Ullmer 2014-2017 Director View profile
  39. Keith Martin Knight 2014-2015 Director View profile
  40. Matthew John Adshead 2014-2020 Director View profile
  41. Helen Ruth Mineikis 2014-2014 Director View profile
  42. Janet Lesley Lowe 2014-2017 Director View profile
  43. Professor Patricia Mary Preedy 2014-2016 Director View profile
  44. Craig John Alexander Wardle 2013-2026 Director View profile
  45. Alexander James Gear 2013-2020 Director View profile
  46. Martin Charles Lloyd 2013-2014 Director View profile
  47. Deborah Ann Leek-Bailey OBE 2013-2018 Director View profile
  48. Susan Webb 2013-2016 Director View profile
  49. Victoria Susan Smit 2012-2018 Director View profile
  50. Paul Easterbrook 2012-2017 Director View profile
  51. Samantha Lynne Jaspal 2012-2014 Director View profile
  52. Christine Anne Baines 2012-2015 Director View profile
  53. Lee Sanders 2012-2015 Director View profile
  54. Michael Hewett 2011-2017 Director View profile
  55. James Stearns 2011-2014 Director View profile
  56. Lynn Maggs-Wellings 2011-2016 Director View profile
  57. Anna Evans 2011-2012 Director View profile
  58. Paul Frederick Smith 2011-2011 Director View profile
  59. Margaret Ann Denton 2010-2014 Director View profile
  60. Professor Patricia Mary Preedy 2010-2012 Director View profile
  61. Philip Alexander Soutar 2010-2014 Director View profile
  62. Brian George Chittick 2009-2012 Director View profile
  63. Catherine Elizabeth Brown 2009-2012 Director View profile
  64. Rupert Antony Fowke 2008-2012 Director View profile
  65. Carole Ann Baker 2008-2013 Director View profile
  66. Mark William Malley 2008-2011 Director View profile
  67. David Roger Wood 2008-2010 Director View profile
  68. David Williams 2007-2010 Director View profile
  69. Roger Harry Brierly 2007-2015 Director View profile
  70. Marlyn Joyce Nicholson 2007-2008 Director View profile
  71. Susan Jane Woodward 2006-2011 Director View profile
  72. Paul Moss 2006-2019 Director View profile
  73. Joyce Nicol 2005-2010 Director View profile
  74. Dr Alan Robert Doe 2005-2006 Director View profile
  75. Kevin Anthony Phillips 2005-2007 Director View profile
  76. Charles Patrick Lacey 2005-2007 Director View profile
  77. Graham Robert Gorton 2005-2014 Director View profile
  78. Roger Griffin 2005-2008 Director View profile
  79. Mahendra Kumar Savjani 2005-2012 Director View profile
  80. Deborah Leek-Bailey 2004-2012 Director View profile
  81. John Gibson 2004-2011 Director View profile
  82. Bernice Yvonne Corbett 2003-2007 Director View profile
  83. Roy Kelvyn Iremonger 2003-2008 Director View profile
  84. Stephen Percival Bishop 2003-2003 Director View profile
  85. Angela Culley 2002-2022 Director View profile
  86. Elizabeth Patricia Coley 2002-2003 Director View profile
  87. Michael David Bayes 2002-2002 Director View profile
  88. Joan Muir Mumby 2002-2011 Director View profile
  89. David Baldwin 2001-2002 Director View profile
  90. John Sinclair 2001-2003 Director View profile
  91. Stephen Anthony Robinson 2001-2002 Director View profile
  92. Frank Joseph Loveder 2001-2004 Director View profile
  93. David Keith Blackburn 2001-2008 Director View profile
  94. Patricia Beryl Burton 2001-2001 Director View profile
  95. Sean Henry Cassidy 2000-2000 Director View profile
  96. Marian Polly Dangerfield 2000-2008 Director View profile
  97. Kathleen Lesley Thornton 1999-1999 Director View profile
  98. Richard Shepherd Willmott 1999-2005 Director View profile
  99. Rosemary Lloyd Lait 1999-2003 Director View profile
  100. Christopher Mark Sanderson 1999-2002 Director View profile
  101. Hilary Pamela Laidler 1998-2004 Director View profile
  102. Arthur George Bray 1998-2013 Director View profile
  103. David Geoffrey Vanstone 1998-2013 Director View profile
  104. Paul William Bate 1997-2006 Director View profile
  105. Thelma Alys Devonside 1997-1998 Director View profile
  106. Hearnden, Arthur George, Doctor 1997-2002 Director View profile
  107. Peter Scott Larkman 1997-2002 Director View profile
  108. Anthony John Martin 1997-1999 Director View profile
  109. Jane Dorothy Billing 1997-2002 Director View profile
  110. Robert Haworth 1996-2001 Director View profile
  111. Rosemarie Smart 1996-2001 Director View profile
  112. Thomas David Farrell 1996-2000 Director View profile
  113. David Edward Wood 1996-2002 Director View profile
  114. Michael John Hewett 1995-2009 Director View profile
  115. Helen Margaret Steel 1994-2001 Director View profile
  116. Christine Ann Rispin 1994-1996 Director View profile
  117. Anthony John Blackhurst 1994-2001 Director View profile
  118. Colin James Ashby 1994-2015 Director View profile
  119. Wedgwood, David John, Director 1993-1996 Director View profile
  120. Margaret Ishbel Hodkin 1993-1995 Director View profile
  121. Marie Grant 1993-2015 Director View profile
  122. Pamela Hargreaves 1992-1997 Director View profile
  123. James Thomas Wilding 1992-2026 Director View profile
  124. Robert Paul Spendlove 1992-2006 Director View profile
  125. Michael James Barber 1992-1994 Director View profile
  126. Peter Jeremy Owen 1987-2005 Director View profile
  127. Frederick Richard George John Rapsey 1996 Director View profile
  128. Ann Docking Stranack 2014 Director View profile
  129. James Gordon Walter Lynch 1993 Director View profile
  130. Michael Anthony Eagar 1996 Director View profile
  131. Rev Peter Andrew Frank Augustus Calaminus 2002 Director View profile
  132. Nicholas Debenham 1993 Director View profile
  133. Sir Rhodes Boyson 1992 Director View profile
  134. Edmund Scott Marshall 1996 Director View profile
  135. Richard David Harrison Reeman 1992 Director View profile
  136. Peter Francis Mcgowan 1992 Director View profile
  137. Margaret Rose Banks 1997 Director View profile
  138. John Snodin Riley 2007 Director View profile
  139. Robert Carlton Boyd 1994 Director View profile
  140. Leslie James Thompson 1996 Director View profile
  141. Brian Humphrey Mead 1993 Director View profile
  142. Franciska Bayliss 1992 Director View profile
  143. Kevin Andrew Cheney 1992 Director View profile
  144. Patricia Mary Holmes 1996 Director View profile
  145. Sean Andrew Simington 1998 Director View profile
  146. Geoffrey Thomas Tierney 1993 Director View profile
  147. Peter Frederick Hayden 1992 Director View profile
  148. Margaret Joyce Milner-Williams 2012 Director View profile
  149. Bryan John Maybee 2013 Director View profile
  150. Dr Barry Maurice Waller Trapnell 1997 Director View profile
  151. Zelma Roisli 2006 Director View profile
  152. John Leslie Wade 2005 Director View profile
  153. Kenneth Alfred Schofield 1992 Director View profile
  154. Neil Roskilly 2009-2022 Secretary View profile
  155. Jane Elizabeth Le Poidevin 2004-2009 Secretary View profile
  156. Timothy Michael Ham 1994-2008 Secretary View profile
  157. Patrick Sourd Winterson 1993 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

Incorporated
06/11/1895
Also a registered charity
The Independent Schools Association

Group

No further corporate or individual controller is recorded above The Independent Schools Association on the PSC register - it appears to be the top of its group.

2 other companies in this group

Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.

Grants received

5 grants · £157,500 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £157,500 (5 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £31,5002019-09-09
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £31,5002019-09-09
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £31,5002019-09-09
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £31,5002019-09-09
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £31,5002019-09-09
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

20 directors on the board

4.8y median 3.9y
average tenure
18.2y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (6)

Portfolio (14)

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Education 16Business services 2Professional services 2Hospitality 1Manufacturing 1Other services 1Retail and trade 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: directors from a wider range of sectors.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00045867
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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