Company
The Pioneer Academy
The Pioneer Academy is an active UK company (number 07691324), incorporated 2011, with 8 current directors including Carole Hitchens and Rock Gyimah Adjei-Baah. Source: Companies House, updated 4th October 2026.
Official record Companies House · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Carole HitchensDirector · since 2025
- Rock Gyimah Adjei-BaahDirector · since 2025
- Joanna Margaret ClarkeDirector · since 2023
- Andrew Mark Victor ChurchDirector · since 2022
- Katherine CongDirector · since 2019
- Joanne BouwensDirector · since 2019
- Wendy Kay AndrewsDirector · since 2016
- Lee Mason-EllisDirector · since 2011
- Emma SpenceSecretary · since 2026
Previous officers 34
- Simon Jon Sharron 2023-2025 View profile
- Adeyinka Adesina 2023-2026 View profile
- Clive Stuart Brown 2022-2022 View profile
- Rachid Bengougam 2022-2023 View profile
- Betty Huynh 2022-2025 View profile
- Emmanuella Temitope Olayemi Aiyere 2022-2023 View profile
- Sir Robin Bosher 2021-2023 View profile
- Paul Gavin Bridgman 2020-2021 View profile
- Anne Holmes Henderson Wright 2016-2024 View profile
- John Henry Brown 2016-2022 View profile
- John Henry Judd 2016-2018 View profile
- Catherine Anne Kinsley 2016-2018 View profile
- Richard Ian Lockyer 2016-2023 View profile
- Julie Nicola Fox 2015-2017 View profile
- Jack Sawyer 2014-2019 View profile
- Rev Robert Mark Radcliffe 2014-2015 View profile
- Douglas John Robinson 2014-2022 View profile
- Claire Campbell 2012-2013 View profile
- Robert Preston-Broom 2012-2013 View profile
- Keown, Paul Gabriel, Father 2012-2013 View profile
- Alexandra Claire Weekes 2012-2013 View profile
- Nicola Kelli Crockatt 2011-2013 View profile
- John Charles Pepper 2011-2013 View profile
- Elizabeth Dawes 2011-2013 View profile
- Sarah Moncaster 2011-2013 View profile
- Jennifer Payne 2011-2013 View profile
- Nicholas Beal 2011-2016 View profile
- Gillian Irene Mallard 2011-2014 View profile
- Anne Slade 2024-2026 View profile
- David Groves 2020-2024 View profile
- Anne Slade 2019-2020 View profile
- Julie Fox 2018-2019 View profile
- Anne Margaret Slade 2014-2018 View profile
- Alison Pratt 2011-2014 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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Public contracts won
1 contract · £76,800 totalFrom Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.
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About
- Incorporated
- 04/07/2011
Contracts awarded
1 contractFrom Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (Open Government Licence v3.0), where this organisation is recorded as the buyer. Suppliers are matched to a Governance Register company or charity page at confidence 0.7 or higher; below that they are shown by name only.
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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.
8 directors on the board
- Katherine Cong Director · appointed 2019
- Lee Mason-Ellis Director · appointed 2011
- Wendy Kay Andrews Director · appointed 2016
- Andrew Mark Victor Church Director · appointed 2022
- Carole Hitchens Director · appointed 2025
- Joanne Bouwens Director · appointed 2019
- Joanna Margaret Clarke Director · appointed 2023
- Rock Gyimah Adjei-Baah Director · appointed 2025
Directors past 6 years
- Katherine Cong Director · appointed 2019
- Lee Mason-Ellis Director · appointed 2011
- Wendy Kay Andrews Director · appointed 2016
- Joanne Bouwens Director · appointed 2019
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (5)
- Lee Mason-Ellis Director · appointed 2011
- Wendy Kay Andrews Director · appointed 2016
- Carole Hitchens Director · appointed 2025
- Joanne Bouwens Director · appointed 2019
- Joanna Margaret Clarke Director · appointed 2023
Portfolio (3)
- Katherine Cong Director · appointed 2019
- Andrew Mark Victor Church Director · appointed 2022
- Rock Gyimah Adjei-Baah Director · appointed 2025
Left in the last 12 months
- Adeyinka Adesina Director · appointed 2023 · resigned 2026
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.
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
- Several long-serving directors could step down together
Where to look Suggested search: succession planning for long-tenured seats.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 07691324
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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