Central Services Team

The Central Team

A skilled, professional Central Support Team works closely with the Hope Sentamu Learning Trust schools to offer support with day-to-day Operations, Finance, Human Resources and School Improvement. It also implements strategic decisions agreed by the Trustees.

Helen Winn | Chief Executive Officer and Accounting Officer

Originally from the north-east of England, Helen qualified as a teacher after leaving university. Just three years after starting her career in Essex, she became assistant headteacher at a secondary modern, later returning to the north-east for another assistant headteacher role and then a deputy principal role. In a big departure from her vocation, she moved away from teaching in 2009 to become a consultant in the construction sector, helping firms to bid for new contracts.

In 2011, she was approached to do consultancy at Ipswich Academy when it opened. After three years as a consultant, she was appointed as associate principal and relocated to Suffolk in January 2014, before becoming first interim principal and then permanent principal in 2017.

Helen became CEO in September 2020.

Operations, Facilities & Support

Wendy Munro | Chief Operating Officer

Karen Forrester | Trust Operations Manager

Kyle Immanuel | Director of Safeguarding

Tracy Dalleywater | Trust Data and Information Manager

Laura Swan | Executive Support Manager

Joanna Coe | Executive Support Officer

Tommy Ashes | Facilities Lead

Paul Garton | Site Facilities Lead (Hull)

Lauren Oakes | Compliance Officer

Liam Foster | Marketing & Communications Officer

Wendy Munro is the Operations Director and Chief Operating Officer for Hope Sentamu Learning Trust. She brings extensive commercial experience to the role having worked as an Operations Director in the IT industry until 2005 before leaving to start her own business specialising in transforming organisations to implement core systems and procedures to meet industry standard/accreditation.

After her successful time in the commercial sector, Wendy was passionate about bringing her skills and expertise into the education sector where she would be able to have both a positive and moral impact. In 2011, she joined Vale of York Academy as School Business Manager before joining the Central Team as Chief Operating Officer.

At Hope Sentamu Learning Trust, Wendy’s role includes: Strategic development of the operational service offering within the central team; Support to existing schools within the Trust to ensure operational effectiveness; Compliance; Procurement exercises including tendering; Due diligence process; and academy conversions.

Karen is the Trust Operations Manager. Her roles includes: supporting the Chief Operating Officer; providing operational services within the Central Team; supporting the schools within the Trust; overseeing procurement, maintaining safe and healthy work environments by establishing, following and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations. Before joining the Central Team, Karen was Premises Manager at Manor CE Academy.

Lauren joined Hope Setamu Learning Trust in November 2022 as their Compliance Officer. Having previously worked in further & higher education supporting students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), and more recently at North Yorkshire Police as a Witness Care Officer, Lauren has extensive experience involving safeguarding vulnerable young people. Lauren is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and will act as lead within the trust for the coordination of compliance and associated governance.

Finance

Tracey Shaw | Financial Controller

Helen Nozedar | Management Accountant

Rachel Chapman | Finance Officer

Michelle Hall | Finance Officer

Jane Mansfield | Finance Officer

Megan Pycroft | Finance Officer

Rhianna Tipping-Wood | Finance Officer

Elanor Hampshire | Procurement and Tender Officer

Tania Sinclair | Purchase Ledger Manager

Katarzyna Atchinson | Finance Operational Manager

Callum Fraser | Finance Operational Officer

Margarita Pavlovets | Finance Operational Officer

Mackenzy Barnes | Finance Assistant

I have worked in a finance function role since graduating from The University of Humberside in 1995 with a BSc (Hons) in Finance with Business. My most recent role was in the print and technology sector where I worked for 18 years, managing a small finance & payroll team. I have experience in all areas of the finance function, from purchase ledger right through to the preparation of monthly management accounts.

Since completing my AAT level 3 and gaining my AATQB qualification I am also looking to complete my AAT level 4.

Megan joined Hope Sentamu Learning Trust as an Accounts Apprentice, working with the Purchase Ledger Team. She is currently looking forward to training with the team and working towards her AAT qualifications. Prior to joining the Trust, she worked within Retail.

I was born and raised in Scarborough and attended Graham School before moving on to college. I worked in the tourism industry before completing a Business Administration apprenticeship in the Motor Trade where I spent the next 4.5 years working through the different accounting roles and working through the AAT levels. I joined the education sector in May 2021 becoming a Finance Assistant at a Trust in Scarborough before becoming a Finance Officer at HSLT in November 2021. I am looking forward to this next step in my career and also to continuing to develop my accounting skills and knowledge.

Tania deals with all the Purchase ledger duties for the Trust and is responsible for payments and bank reconciliation for all schools within the Trust. Tania has a vast amount of experience working within Accounting from Military, Private Hospital, Construction to IT software company and holds Qualified Association of Accounting Technician – Level 4.

Margarita is the Purchase Ledger Clerk for all schools within the Trust and has a Level III Diploma in Manual and Computerised Bookkeeping and is a Member of The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers. Before joining the Trust Margarita spent over 10 years’ working in a biotech company where she managed purchase and sales ledgers.

Human Resources

Mandy Watson | Human Resources Director

Mike Bird | HR Officer

Kirk Foster | HR Officer

Chris Shepherd | HR Officer

Vicki Wilson | HR Officer

Mandy is the Human Resources Director for Hope Sentamu Learning Trust with duties around driving people management strategy and managing the HR functions across the Trust.

Mandy first became a HR professional in 1994 at a large aerospace manufacturing company. This was followed by eight years as a HR consultant working with small businesses in a variety of sectors before joining Archbishop Sentamu Academy as a HR Manager in 2010. Mandy’s role has grown in line with the expansion of Sentamu Academy Learning Trust and its merger with Hope Learning Trust.

Mandy has been a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development for more than 20 years and shared her passion for Human Resources with CIPD students as a part-time lecturer at Beverley College for a number of years.

Chris is a HR Officer for the Hope Sentamu Learning Trust. Her role includes supporting all the primary and secondary schools within the Trust with disciplinary investigations and hearings, grievances, sickness absence, recruitment and selection, policy and toolkit development, face to face, telephone and written advice and guidance, restructures, TUPE transfers, safeguarding and child protection concerns etc.

Chris joined the Trust in March 2017. Prior to this Chris worked for Wakefield Metropolitan District Council for 14 years supporting schools and services.

Chris has a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology. She is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.