Academy Trust, Trustees & Governance - Current Members, their role & responsibilities

The DFE guidance contained in the "Governance Handbook - January 2017" says the following about Members of a Trust. "As charitable companies limited by guarantee every trust has Members who have a similar role to the shareholders in a company limited by shares. Most notably they:

• are signatories to the Articles of Association which includes definition of the Trusts’ charitable object and governance structure (where they are founding Members);
• may, by special resolution, amend the Articles of Association, subject to any restrictions created by the Trust’s funding agreement or charity law;
• may, by special resolution (which requires 75% rather than a simple majority of Members to agree) appoint new Members or remove existing Members other than, where there is one, the foundation/ sponsor body and any Members it has appointed; one, the foundation/ sponsor body and any Members it has appointed;
• have power to appoint Trustees as set out in the Trust’s Articles of Association, and have power under the Companies Act to remove any or all serving Trustees;
• may by special resolution issue direction to the Trustees to take a specific action;
• appoint the Trust’s auditors and receive the Trust’s annual audited accounts; and
• have power to change the name of the charitable company and ultimately, wind up the Academy Trust.

Members of the Academy Trust