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Governance

Our governing body is made up of elected parents, staff, learners, the Principal of the college and co-opted governors. The college governors meet four times a year. Two governors attend the trustee meetings.

If you are interested in becoming a governor at St. John's College, then please get in touch.

For further information about our governance please visit the Ambitious about Autism website.

 

Fiona Chalk
Chair of Governors

Fiona runs her own governance consultancy, specialising in education and third sector organisations. She has previously been a school, MAT, and college board member, and is passionate about the power of governance to contribute to improved organisational performance. With her own children on the spectrum, St Johns mission and vision align with Fiona's, and her desire to see all young people lead the best life they can.

Mohit Bajaj
Governor - health and safety/estates

Bio coming soon

Vai Cheung
Governor - staffing and HR

Vai works in the tech industry, leading on software implementation programmes and projects for not-for-profits. Vai also works closely with her company’s leadership team to shape project operations, ensuring efficient delivery of projects to clients. She’s a mentor who supports colleagues in their career development goals. She started off her career originally in international education as a teacher and then later moved to management and leadership roles.

Vai has an MBA from the University of Leicester, and thrives in working with leadership teams on forming operational strategies to ensure efficiency and effectiveness without losing focus of the people experience, and hopes her experience lends itself well to the governor role at St. John’s College. Vai has also been a mentor and tutor for the BMEYPP (Black Minority Ethnic Young People’s Project) in Brighton. 

Viv Berkeley
Director of Education at Ambitious about Autism
Viv joined Ambitious about Autism in May 2014. She has spent the last 22 years working in the further education (FE) sector in various guises - volunteer, lecturer, coordinator, manager and head of department. Her experience is across the sector – FE colleges, local authorities, universities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Viv is motivated by social justice, social inclusion and equality and always works from this value base.
Julie Flynn
Community Governor

Bio coming soon

Stephen Gordon
Parent Governor

Bio coming soon