Anthem Community Council

Anthem delegates certain responsibilities to a local Anthem Community Council (ACCs) through an agreed scheme of delegation.

As part of a multi-academy trust, our school is not restricted to the traditional model of local governance that most people are familiar with.

Society is changing, and our governance structures needed to change with it. Anthem is leading the way with a completely new kind of governance across its 16 schools with local views, experiences, and expertise at its heart.

You can find out more about the strategy on the Anthem website.

Our school is part of Anthem Schools Trust and the name for our local layer of governance is Anthem Community Councils (ACCs). Members of our ACCs are known as Anthem Community Council members (ACCms). The ACC has four delegated areas of responsibility:

Community
Celebration
SEND, inclusion and safeguarding.
Panels

Each ACC includes ACCms who are Champions in key areas such as safeguarding, SEND and inclusion, and climate change. Our ACCms ensure the voices of students, parent/carers, staff and the community are heard and considered across the school and trust. Further details of all the Champion roles can be found here https://www.anthemtrust.uk/accs

The current members of our ACC are:

Name	Position	Appointed	Interests declared
Rebecca Malam	Headteacher	N/A	Staff member
Douglas Drake	Chair	October 2021 (Appointed Chair February 2022)	Parent of a pupil at LCA, and an ex-pupil. Teacher of Maths, KSHS facilitator, NCETM Assessor, NPQ online facilitator LEAD TS Hub. Member of strategic board EME Maths Hub. A NASUWT Chartered Mathematician.
Marcus Elliott	Member	October 2021	Employed as Organisational Development Consultant (digital/online) at Nottingham Trent University. Director at Vikkas Ltd. Fellow of Advance HE. Member of Association for Learning Technology (ALT). Children attend LCA.
Rob Bushnell	Vice Chair	October 2021
Neil Scally	Member	October 2021	Resigned October 2024

Our Governance Professional (clerk to the ACC) is Alison White - awhite@anthemtrust.uk. ACC members can be contacted via the main school address or via our Governance Professional.

A summary table of ACCms' interests and meeting attendance for the last full academic year can be found on https://www.anthemtrust.uk/governance

A summary table of members' interests and meeting attendance for the last full academic year can be found by clicking on the link below

Do you want to make a difference?

We currently have Champion role vacancies for ACCms who are passionate about contributing to our school and community. If you are interested in finding more out about being part of our school’s ACC, we would love to hear from you! For further details, please click on the link below:

Anthem Community Council Expression of Interest Form