Members
The Primary First Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), and so has Members who are akin to the shareholders of a company and are the guardians of the Trust's constitution.
Members have ultimate control over the Academy Trust, with the ability to appoint and remove the Trustees, appoint and remove Members. They have the right to amend the Trust's articles of association and also appoint the trust’s external auditors. They can also change the company’s name, wind up the company.
William Harwood
Member/Chair of Trustees
See Trustee page.
Hannah Bayley
Member
Jon O'Neill
Member
Jon is a Chartered Engineer with 30+ years automotive industry experience since 1994 with Ford Motor Company, holding various positions mainly in Advanced Propulsion Product Development and more recently in Ford Pro Special Vehicles. Jon’s key responsibilities and specialist skills include project management, effective cross team collaboration for business growth strategies delivering these to budget and time deliverables. Jon typically works up front in business and embraces developing others and enjoys innovation, having secured several patents.
Jon was a Barnehurst School Governor between 2008 to 2017 coincidentally where he also attended as a pupil. Jon held various positions including Vice Chair and Chair of Infant School Finance Committee and was a key passionate team member in appointing the then Executive Head and Heads of Schools, assisted during the schools earlier transition in becoming ‘federated’ and improving its Ofsted status to ‘Outstanding’. Jon’s special achievement was celebrating with the team in 2014 when Barnehurst was nominated in an award celebration at Westminster having reached the top 6 ‘national’ primary schools!
Jon was delighted when Bill Harwood, Chair of Trustees, asked him to re-engage, this time adding value as a ‘member’ from academic year 2022-23.