Grafham Grange Governors
Colin Young (Chair)
Colin Young is Chairman of Cranleigh Freight Services and has over 30 years experience of the international transport industry. He has a lifelong commitment to the local community and the development of young people for which he was awarded the MBE in 2003. A past Governor of Grafham Grange School and Director of the GGSET, Colin has now taken up the Chair of the Grafham Grange Governing Body. Colin has, for the past 11 years, been mentoring in main stream schools for Surrey Education Business Partnership to year 10 and 11 students. Colin is also actively involved in St. John Ambulance and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Lynda MacDermott
Lynda MacDermott is a linguist and founder partner of an internet-based translation and internet web marketing company. Communication, by a variety of media, has been an all pervasive thread throughout her career. At first this was in the field of education where her main interest was the development of teaching expertise.
After leaving teaching in 1997, she became editor of an on-line language learning service and subsequently manager of an international market research centre.
She has considerable experience of selecting and managing personnel from a wide array of cultures in her present and previous roles in international communications. Within wider society, she plays a leading role with a variety of campaigning groups.
Now an ex-Director of GGSET, Lynda is now a Governor both of Grafham Grange and Brantridge schools.
Peter French
Marita King (Parent Governor)
Bob Owen - Staff Governor
Alan Tomlinson (Head of Children's Services)
Richard Johnson ( Head Teacher)
Dr Sue Martin
Sue Martin has spent her career in the public and voluntary sector. She came to the UK from Australia in 1979 -- to stay for three years -- and has been here ever since. After completing her PhD in History, she has worked in education and youth training, housing for older people, public health and policing. After several years with the Department of Health and the Home Office, She spent five and a half years as Chief Executive of Surrey Police Authority. She now works for herself, which gives her time to be a Trustee for the Education Trust. She is also Trustee of another local charity.
Richard Powell
Richard Powell qualified as a solicitor in 1975 and has specialised in company law and corporate finance. He was a partner in a City firm, D J Freeman and then joined Mundays, a regional practice in Surrey. He retired in 2010. He is married with three grown up children and has lived in Shamley Green since 1982. He has been involved in the setting up of a local charity, the Wonersh and Shamley Green Voluntary Playground Committee and the trusts relating to the local church school. His interests include industrial archaeology and old motor cars.
Brantridge Governors
Mr Lloyd Richards (Chair of Governors, Trustee, Designated Governor with responsibility for Child Protection and Safeguarding)
Lloyd Richards is a Chartered Banker of over 30 years experience within the NatWest/RBS Group. His career focus has been on people and change management, having spent 20 years in HR management and the balance of his career in leading national change programmes covering systems, performance and behavioural issues.
Lloyd is highly community service oriented and has been actively involved in charitable activities for a quarter of a century, culminating in joining Brantridge School as a Governor in 2000 and becoming a Director of Grafham Grange Special Education Trust in 2002.
He holds two other Directorships.
Mr Peter Samuels (Governer)
Mrs Daphne Anthony (DL) (Governor, Chair of Curriculum Committee)
Mrs Kate Pettitt (Governor)
Mrs Tammy Blythe (Headteacher)
Mr Geoffrey Doe (Governor)
Mr David Hope (Governor)
Mrs Alison Livesley (Governor)
Mr Robert Saunders (Governor)
Mr Anthony Lees (Governor, Chair of Care Committee)
Tony Lees was head teacher of a special residential school (MLD/EBD) for 25 years and worked for the ILEA and Tower Hamlets. Until recently he was a long serving magistrate with the Sussex Magistracy and has maintained close contact with special education in both training and school governor capacities.
He is extensively involved in charitable concerns and is Chairman of an East Sussex hospice as well as holding a Paul Harris Fellowship in Rotary. Tony is an ex-Director with GGSET and a governor to Brantridge School.