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Governance
How we govern and operate
Our proprietor is Thomas’s London Day Schools (TLDS), a private limited company. The Thomas family hold a majority share alongside a long term investor, Oakley Capital, who took a minority stake in March 2023.
Boards
Information
Shareholder Board
Education Board
Operations Board
The Registered Office
Thomas’s London Day Schools is governed on behalf of the Shareholders by a Board which consists of three directors. The Board has liability and governance responsibility. The Board sets the strategic direction of TLDS, maintain legal oversight, monitor all activities, set executive KPIs, assess the performance of the schools and establish and review material policies and practices governing the life of the schools.
The Board is mindful that it has an overriding responsibility to ensure that all safeguarding, health and safety, ISI, OFSTED and statutory obligations to our pupils, parents, the Department for Education and the Education and Skills Funding Agency are met. The TLDS Board has an overriding duty to act freely and in the best interest of TLDS at all times.
Directors:
Ben Thomas, Principal and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Tobyn Thomas, Principal
Sam Fenton-Whittet, Oakley Capital
The Education Board develops and leads on educational strategy, admissions and marketing strategy, and aims, vision and values.
The Operations Board provides support to the educational, central operations and administrations teams ensuring rigorous compliance and high expectations in terms of effective and efficient strategies for management of finances, HR, legal, procurement, estates management, and all areas of compliance including health and safety, IT, data, risk and talent management.
The Operations Board is led by:
Matt Nicholl, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Chair of the Operations Board and nominated Health and Safety Governor
Sophie Rees, Chief People Officer (CPO) and nominated Safeguarding Governor
War War Tin, Chief Finance Officer (CFO)
Membership also includes:
Tamasine Barrett, HR Director
Laura Cottrell, Director of Admissions and Marketing, Thomas's College
Tasmin Ikin, Senior Facilities Manager
Vanessa Rodnight, Head of Compliance
Michael Swart, Director of IT
Kate Thomas, Director of Marketing
Thomas’s London Day Schools Brightwater House Market Place Ringwood, Hampshire BH24 1AP Tel: 01425 481500
