Company
Essex Special Schools Education Trust
Official record Companies House · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Gemma Louise FowlerDirector · since 2025
- Alan WellsDirector · since 2023
- Kathleen FahertyDirector · since 2023
- Anthony ClementsDirector · since 2023
- Antonella CrudgingtonDirector · since 2023
- Jo AllainDirector · since 2022
- Ruth Danielle WhiteheadDirector · since 2021
- Simon HollidayDirector · since 2021
- Adam DeanDirector · since 2021
- Georgina PrykeDirector · since 2021
- Alice ConstantineDirector · since 2020
- Cristina Marie KearneyDirector · since 2019
- Jennifer GrotierDirector · since 2017
- Nicholas Christopher Moore MaxwellDirector · since 2015
- Lisa ChristodoulidesDirector · since 2015
Previous officers 33
- Mark Savage 2023-2025 View profile
- Maggie Loveday 2022-2026 View profile
- Simon John Dawson 2020-2023 View profile
- Michelle Hughes 2020-2022 View profile
- Elizabeth Cornish 2019-2025 View profile
- Gary Corbett 2018-2020 View profile
- Karen Ann Clark 2018-2022 View profile
- Elizabeth Smart 2017-2020 View profile
- Emma Justine Baker 2017-2023 View profile
- Matthew Malcolm Colin Surman 2016-2026 View profile
- Daniel Woodman 2016-2022 View profile
- Jacqueline Audrey Brathwaite 2016-2020 View profile
- Garry Michael Walker 2016-2017 View profile
- Virginia Rachel Bellard 2015-2017 View profile
- Stephen David Horsted 2015-2016 View profile
- John Chadwick 2014-2023 View profile
- Kathleen Wall 2014-2023 View profile
- Sally Davies 2014-2017 View profile
- Gary Russell Smith 2014-2021 View profile
- Emma Katharine Paramor 2014-2018 View profile
- Judith Anne Salter 2014-2019 View profile
- Susan Davies 2014-2014 View profile
- Dianne Ryan 2014-2019 View profile
- Julian Francis Cochrane 2014-2023 View profile
- Michael Alan Southgate 2014-2014 View profile
- Sue Jane Wraw 2014-2015 View profile
- Philippa Jane Holliday 2014-2018 View profile
- Elizabeth Drake 2014-2020 View profile
- Joanna Mary Weller 2014-2016 View profile
- Ian Paul Boatman 2014-2016 View profile
- Simon Edward Wall 2014-2024 View profile
- Peter Whelan 2014-2015 View profile
- Simon Wall 2017-2019 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- Incorporated
- 18/02/2014
Financials
- Net assets
- £318,098
- Total assets
- £571,532
- Employees
- 0
- Turnover
- Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)
Filed as Micro-entity accounts.
Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-02-28. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.
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.
15 directors on the board
- Nicholas Christopher Moore Maxwell Director · appointed 2015
- Lisa Christodoulides Director · appointed 2015
- Georgina Pryke Director · appointed 2021
- Kathleen Faherty Director · appointed 2023
- Alan Wells Director · appointed 2023
- Anthony Clements Director · appointed 2023
- Alice Constantine Director · appointed 2020
- Gemma Louise Fowler Director · appointed 2025
- Jo Allain Director · appointed 2022
- Jennifer Grotier Director · appointed 2017
- Ruth Danielle Whitehead Director · appointed 2021
- Simon Holliday Director · appointed 2021
- Adam Dean Director · appointed 2021
- Antonella Crudgington Director · appointed 2023
- Cristina Marie Kearney Director · appointed 2019
Directors past 6 years
- Nicholas Christopher Moore Maxwell Director · appointed 2015
- Lisa Christodoulides Director · appointed 2015
- Alice Constantine Director · appointed 2020
- Jennifer Grotier Director · appointed 2017
- Cristina Marie Kearney Director · appointed 2019
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (12)
- Lisa Christodoulides Director · appointed 2015
- Georgina Pryke Director · appointed 2021
- Kathleen Faherty Director · appointed 2023
- Alan Wells Director · appointed 2023
- Anthony Clements Director · appointed 2023
- Alice Constantine Director · appointed 2020
- Jo Allain Director · appointed 2022
- Jennifer Grotier Director · appointed 2017
- Ruth Danielle Whitehead Director · appointed 2021
- Simon Holliday Director · appointed 2021
- Antonella Crudgington Director · appointed 2023
- Cristina Marie Kearney Director · appointed 2019
Portfolio (3)
- Nicholas Christopher Moore Maxwell Director · appointed 2015
- Gemma Louise Fowler Director · appointed 2025
- Adam Dean Director · appointed 2021
Also govern a charity
- Nicholas Christopher Moore Maxwell Rochford Community Church Trust, The Association of Parents Staff and Friends of Cedar Hall School
- Georgina Pryke Thriftwood School Parents and Friends Association
- Alice Constantine The Friends of Kingswode HOE School
- Gemma Louise Fowler MID Tendring Education Partnership
- Jennifer Grotier Splash PTA
Left in the last 12 months
- Matthew Malcolm Colin Surman Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2026
- Mark Savage Director · appointed 2023 · resigned 2025
- Elizabeth Cornish Director · appointed 2019 · resigned 2025
- Maggie Loveday Director · appointed 2022 · 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
- No director brings board experience from anywhere else
- Narrow spread of sectors across the board
Where to look Suggested search: a director with board experience elsewhere; directors from a wider range of sectors.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 08900924
- 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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