The object of Highams Park Academy Trust
A charity's object is a statement of its purposes - they must be exclusively charitable. The Highams Park Academy Trust's object is contained in our "Articles of Association" and it says the following:
The Academy Trust's object ("the Object") is specifically restricted to the following: to advance for the public benefit education in the United Kingdom, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing by establishing, maintaining, carrying on, managing and developing a school offering a broad and balanced curriculum ("the Academy").
Principles of Governance
The main principles of governance are the same in academies as in other state funded schools, but the Trustees (Directors/Governors) have greater autonomy than those in maintained schools.
The school receives its funding through a funding agreement with the Department of Education that channels funding through the Education and Skills Funding Agency rather than via the Local Authority (Waltham Forest).
There are two distinct groups of people involved in the governance of an Academy; the Members of the Trust and the Trustees.
