KENDRICK - Key Persons
Charly Lester is the Founder and CEO of The Dating Awards and Co-Founder of A League of Her Own. She runs the UK, US and European Dating Awards, and is an internationally-recognised dating industry expert. Charly has represented the industry on Watchdog, BBC Newsnight, Woman's Hour, and as an expert advisor to Lord Sugar in the Final of The Apprentice 2015. In 2017, Charly launched 'A League of Her Own' to encourage more women to start their own businesses.
Charly left Kendrick in 2002. After a Gap Year teaching in Hunan Province, China, she studied Law with Oriental Studies at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge University. Charly represented Cambridge at skiing and cricket, earning 1 Full Blue and 3 Half Blues during her time at the University. Whilst Captain of the University Cricket Team, she successfully appealed for women's cricket to receive Full Blue status. Following her graduation, Charly studied a Masters in Broadcast Journalism at Westminster University in London.
In 2013, whilst working in the banking sector, Charly began writing a dating blog. The blog quickly went viral, and was picked up by the Guardian, who offered Charly the role of Dating Editor for Guardian Soulmates. Charly left her role at the bank, and went freelance. At the start of 2014 she set up the UK Dating Awards, as a response to queries she received through the blog. After two successful annual events in London, with 250 guests from across the dating industry, Charly took the Awards model to Europe and America at the start of 2016.
At the end of 2014, Time Out group head-hunted Charly for the role 'Global Head of Dating' which they created specifically for her. In the role, Charly mixed journalism with technology, designing a dating site for the media group. Charly remained with Time Out for a year, before returning to freelance work. In addition to organising the Dating Awards, she works as a consultant for a number of companies within the dating space. In November of 2016, she launched her very own dating app, 'SPEX' designed for singles who wear glasses. Charly's book 'How to Become a Dating Expert' was published in February 2017. In October 2017 Charly was asked to debate at the Oxford Union on the existence of true love.
Charly is an Ambassador for male rape charity Survivors Manchester. She was Head Judge for the UK Blog Awards in 2016 and 2017. In her spare time, Charly plays international Roller Derby for Romania (she is half-Romanian) and played in the World Cup in 2018. Charly runs regular marathons and triathlons and is currently training for Ironman Copenhagen.
Chinyere Adah Nwanoku OBE was born in London in June 1956. She was a student at Kendrick School. She is a double bass player and professor of Historical Double Bass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. She was a founder member and principal bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a position she held for 30 years. Of Nigerian and Irish descent, she is the founder and Artistic Director of the Chineke! Orchestra. The Chineke! Orchestra the first professional orchestra & junior orchestra in Europe to be made up of a majority of black and minority ethnic musicians.
Eleanor Reeves leads the London Environment and Safety practice at law firm, Ashurst.
Eleanor left Kendrick in 2001. She joined the Bank of England's Liquidity Services department, before going on to study law at University College London. After graduating in 2004, she went on to law school at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice.
In 2005, she joined Dentons (formerly Denton Wilde Sapte) as a trainee solicitor. She qualified as a solicitor in 2007, joining one of the most established environmental teams in London as a specialist regulatory lawyer. She later moved to Ashurst to head up the London Environment and Safety practice and build a new team.
Eleanor advises clients on a wide range of environmental and safety matters, with a particular focus on incident response and crisis management, regulatory investigations and prosecutions, day-to-day compliance issues and liability risk management, project and transactional work, and civil litigation. She is a member of the UK Environmental Law Association and the UK Health and Safety Lawyers' Association.
Her practice area includes pollution liability regimes, sustainable development, land remediation, renewable energy, international climate change mechanisms, health and safety, chemicals regulation, private law claims, habitat protection, producer responsibility, waste management and the circular economy.
Eleanor supports a wide range of community projects, including mentoring, providing educational support and free legal advice, and community work.
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- Director of Principle Consulting
Jane is a director of Principle Consulting, a social enterprise that supports charities to campaign for government policy changes that will help their beneficiaries.
Jane left Kendrick in 1999 after completing A-levels in Maths, English and History and went on to study History at the University of Sheffield. After completing her degree, Jane was elected to the role of Welfare Office at Sheffield Student's Union for a year where she had her first taste of leading campaigns on the issues of student fees and affordable accommodation. Jane went on to work in Parliament as a researcher and for the last 10 years has helped many charities to effectively get their messages across to parliamentarians and the Government.
Jane is passionate about volunteering and has volunteered as an English teaching assistant in schools in Tanzania and Kenya, and now helps one morning a week in her children's school in Maidenhead. Jane is also a media volunteer for Alzheimer's Research UK, speaking about her mother's experiences of early onset Alzheimer's to raise awareness about the condition.
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- Solicitor at Osborne Clarke LLP
Jennifer attended Kendrick School from 2000 - 2007, serving on the Head Girl Team. She remains in close contact with many of her Kendrick friends to this day. Following her A-Levels, Jennifer read Law at the University of Bristol. In her time at the University of Bristol, Jennifer was on the leadership team for the University of Bristol Law Clinic, providing a pro-bono legal advice service for vulnerable individuals without access to justice in the Bristol area.
After graduation Jennifer was part of the inaugural intake at the Bristol campus of the University of Law, to study the Legal Practice Course. Having taken part in summer placements at international law firms in London and Bristol, Jennifer chose to stay in Bristol upon graduation, accepting a training contract with international law firm Osborne Clarke LLP.
As a solicitor at Osborne Clarke LLP, Jennifer completed four six-month placements in different departments within the firm before qualifying as a solicitor into the commercial Real Estate practice group in 2013. Since qualifying as a solicitor, Jennifer has developed expertise in commercial retail, investment and telecoms law in the real estate sector. Working for an international law firm involves frequent meetings in London with regular opportunities for international business (Jennifer has recently spent time in the Barcelona and Munich offices of Osborne Clarke LLP).
Jennifer and her husband Matthew had their son Rupert in September 2018 and after just over a year of maternity leave, Jennifer has now returned to work. Jennifer regularly pushes the agenda for equality and womens‘ rights in her business.
In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys travelling to exotic places around the world. Jennifer also devotes time to raising money for Cots for Tots (the Bristol Children's Hospital charity) and she has run the London marathon twice.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Parent Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Community Trustee
- Parent Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Parent Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Staff Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Parent Trustee and Health & Safety Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member & Chair of the Trustee Board
- Member of the and Chair of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Community Trustee
- Parent Trustee and Health & Safety Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Member Inclusion & SEND Trustee
- Trustee and Member, Inclusion & SEND Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Staff Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Staff Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Community Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Clerk to the Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is responsible for managing the affairs of Kendrick School which is a charitable company limited by guarantee and is responsible for approving the long-term strategy of the school. The day to day running of the school is largely delegated to the Headteacher.
Trustees at Kendrick School are directors of a company for the purposes of company law; and a charity trustee for the purposes of charity law. As a general principle, they have a general ‘fiduciary duty' to the Board of Trustees. This means that they have a duty to act honestly, in good faith and in the best interests of the school at all times. They must use the powers granted to them for the purposes for which they were conferred (i.e. to run the school). The Kendrick School Trustee Board is made up of 3 committees - Learning & Teaching, Resourcing, and Performance & Reviewing.
The Full Board of Trustees meets 3 times a year, which includes a whole day meeting and each Committee normally meets 6 times an academic year.
To contact a member of the Board of Trustees, please email Jackie Gray, Clerk to the Board, at clerk@kendrick.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Community Trustee and Safeguarding Trustee
- Safeguarding Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Parent Trustee / 19 / 06 / 2022 / 4 Years / Parent Election
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Parent Trustee and
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Headteacher & Trustee
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Community Trustee, Safeguarding Trustee and Mental Wellbeing & Personal Development Trustee