Governing Body Structure & Register of Interests

^{* in office until first meeting of 2027-28 school year}

^Governor	^Role	^{App’d by}	^Gov/^Assoc	^{Date of App’t}	^{Term ends}	^Term^Yrs	^{Attend 2025_26}	^{Declared interest}
Louise Nichols	Exec HT	ex-officio	G	ex-officio	ex-officio	ex-officio	3/4	^{Director Hackney School of Food}
Winnie Cox	Staff	Elected	G	07 02 26	06 02 30	4	1/2
Erin Boreham	Parent	Elected	G	07 10 25	06 10 29	4	3/3	nil
Sarah Fox	Parent	Elected	G	07 10 25	06 10 29	4	3/3	nil
to be appointed	LA Gov	GB	G
Rosalyn Berrisford ^{Co-vice chair*}	Co-opted	GB	G	01 09 25	31 08 29	4	3/4	nil
Ian Quest	Co-opted	GB	G	01 09 25	31 08 29	4	3/4	nil
Sami Tatar	Co-opted	GB	G	01 09 25	31 08 29	4	2/4	nil
Khadija Adewusi	Co-opted	GB	G	01 09 25	31 08 29	4	3/4	nil
Koen Van Lieshout	Co-opted	GB	G	01 09 25	31 08 29	4	3/4	nil
Shanielle Shrouder ^Chair*	Co-opted	GB	G	01 09 25	31 08 29	4	4/4	nil
Lizzie Thorne ^{Co-vice chair*}	Co-opted		G	01 09 25	31 08 29	4	4/4	nil
Dylan Aupetit	Co-opted	GB	G	27 01 26	26 01 30	4	1/3	^{Company donates workshops to Mandeville}
vacancy	Co-opted
vacancy	Co-opted

Karen Pedro	Associate	GB	A	23 09 25	22 09 29	4	4/4	nil
Evelyn Deeney	Associate	GB	A	23 09 25	22 09 29	4	3/4	nil
Marc Thompson	Associate	GB	A	23 09 25	22 09 29	4	4/4	nil
Jacqueline Thornton	Associate	GB	A	23 09 25	22 09 29	4	4/4	nil
Edyta Ballantyne	Associate	GB	A	23 09 25	22 09 29	4	N/A
Jatin Shamji	Associate	GB	A	23 09 25	22 09 29	4	N/A	^{SBM at Blosssom Federation. Millfields School/HTSA - wife is Head of school. Consultancy SBM services to LEAP via Blossom}
Mel Burrows	Associate	GB	A	23 09 25	22 09 29	4	4/4
Parveen Razzaque	Associate	GB	A	23 09 25	22 09 29	4	4/4

The following were Governors in the previous school year:

Co-opted: Gill Brady (Co-Chair) - resigned 31.08.2026

Co-opted: Ben Bignal - resigned 31.08.26

(Please see uploaded PDF of Instrument of Government full document at bottom of page)

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

The LEAP Federation

Instrument of Government

The name of the federation is The LEAP Federation.
The LEAP Federation is made up of four maintained primary schools.
The names of the governing body is "The governing body of The LEAP Federation". The names and categories of the schools in the federation are:

4. The governing body shall consist of:

The total number of governors will be 15.
The term of office of all categories of governor is four years.
This instrument of government comes into effect on 5 September 2025.
A copy of the instrument must be supplied free of charge to every member of the governor body (and the executive head teacher if not a governor).

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