Governance

"The Corporation’s Governors work hard to fulfil Wilberforce College’s mission to raise aspirations and serve the educational needs of our community.

We provide the strategic direction for the College, and we consider all aspects of our students’ education – from their achievement to their well-being. We work with the College and its community to enable all our students to fulfil their potential.

We are all volunteers and do the job because we care. We are open and honest in conducting our business, and I am proud to be a governor and Chair of the Corporation."

Pat Mould
Chair of the Corporation

At Wilberforce Sixth Form College we have an active board of governors who play an integral role in the continuing development of the College. The Governing body, together with the Principal, constitutes the highest level of decision-making in the College, having overall responsibility for the strategic direction and financial health of the institution.

Our board of Governors is well balanced in terms of skills and experience, with members having backgrounds in industry, education and the local authority. The common characteristic of the governing body is a passionate commitment to service the community within which the College is located. As such, the Governors set high expectations for the College and its students, and are leading the College to realise its ambition of being judged as outstanding by Ofsted.

Our governors have a critical role in:

• Ensuring the financial well-being of the College and monitoring the effective and efficient use of resources and the quality of its services
• Assuring that the College’s educational character meets the needs of the community which the College serves
• Ensuring that the College mission and vision both reflects the needs of the community it serves and informs and directs every aspect of the College’s activities
• Monitoring the ethos of the College

We welcome enquiries about governance at Wilberforce and are happy to share the minutes and papers of our governors’ meetings with the public. All non-confidential agendas, reports, minutes considered at the meetings of the Corporation, the Register of Interests of Members of the Corporation and the College’s Financial Regulations and Procedures are held by the Clerk and may be inspected by mutual arrangement.

Any enquiries relating to the work of the Corporation or Corporation membership should be directed to the Clerk of the Corporation.

If there are any issues you would like to raise with the Corporation or for more information on the timing of reporting please contact:

Laura Skarratt
Clerk to the Corporation,
Wilberforce College,
Saltshouse Road,
Kingston upon Hull,
HU8 9HD

Email: Laura.Skarratt@wilberforce.ac.uk
Tel: 01482 711688

Chair of the Corporation:
Pat Mould
Email: gvpm@wilberforce.ac.uk

Academisation consultation document

Academisation consultation feedback/response

External Review of Governance 2022-2023

Governance4FE

• Wilberforce College has ‘mature overall governance’.
• There is ‘strong oversight of the financial management of the college’.
• ‘The Board plays a key role as a sounding board to the Executive’.
• ‘The relationship between the Board and Executive is characterised by candour and mutual respect’.
• Governors involvement in the strategic direction of the the college has been ‘pivotal to the aspirational future direction of the college over the long-term, ensuring that students have the best opportunities to be successful’.
• There is a ‘strong spirit of emotional unity within the boardroom – it embraces changes whilst remaining steadfast in its commitment to the local community’.
• ‘Governors give clear steer and affirmation of the ethos, values, and purpose of the institution’.

Please see Key Documents for the Executive Summary of the review.

The Corporation publishes its Annual Members’ Report and Financial Statements annually and are available on the website for no less than 12 months. For any Annual Members’ Report and Financial Statements not already available on the website, please contact the Clerk.

Please find below downloadable minutes documents for Corporation meetings, covering the following: Corporation, Finance and General Purposes Committee, Audit Committee and Quality and Standards Committee.