Governance and legal information

Legal information

South Bank Academies is a multi-academy trust and a not-for-profit charitable company limited by guarantee. The Trust’s sponsor is the London South Bank University. South Bank Academies is also part of the wider LSBU Group, an integrated education group with a strategic ambition to deliver distinctive tertiary education provision.

A multi-academy trust is a group of academies governed by a single set of members and trustees who are accountable to the Department for Education for the performance of the academies in the trust.

Academies are state funded schools, which are funded directly by the Department for Education, and are run by an academy trust. Academies are inspected by Ofsted, and have to follow the same rules on admissions, special educational needs and exclusions as other state schools.

South Bank Academies’ Articles of Association set out its charitable purpose and its governance structure. This includes its charitable objective which is: ‘to advance for the public benefit education in the United Kingdom, in particular …establishing … managing and developing schools offering a broad and balanced curriculum or 16 to 19 Academies offering a curriculum appropriate to the needs of its students’.

Legal name:  South Bank Academies
Company number: 08589525
Registered office address: 103 Borough Road, London, England, SE1 0AA

South Bank Academies’ key statutory postholders are:

• Chief Executive and Accounting Officer – Fiona Morey OBE
• Chief Financial Officer – Wijay Pitumpe
• Company Secretary – Samuel Curtis
• South Bank University Academy Principal – Annette Moses
• South Bank University Sixth Principal – Kishan Pithia

To view the legal documents that relate to our governance click here

Governance

South Bank Academies has two layers governance: members and trustees (also often referred to as governors). Its governance structure is represented by this diagram:

Members and trustees can be contacted by emailing governance@lsbu.ac.uk

Members

Members oversee the governance arrangements of South Bank Academies. They ensure that its charitable objective is being met, and assess if the Board of Trustees is performing well.  Members also have some specific responsibilities, including amending the articles of association and appointing the external auditors.

The Members of South Bank Academies are:

·       London South Bank University – corporate member and sponsor

·       Paul Kett – LSBU Group Chief Executive and Vice Chancellor

·       Simon Cruickshank – Group Chief Finance Officer and Group Chief Operating Officer

Trustees

Trustees are both charity trustees and company directors of South Bank Academies. The Board of Trustees provides:

1. Strategic leadership through defining the trust’s vision for high quality and inclusive education in line with its charitable object.
2. Accountability and assurance through robust effective oversight of the operations and performance of the trust, including the provision of education, student welfare, overseeing and ensuring appropriate use of funding, effective financial performance, and keeping the estate safe and well-maintained.
3. Engagement through strategic oversight of relationships with stakeholders, ensuring feedback from stakeholders is used to inform strategic decision making.

The Board of Trustees is responsible for ensuring that South Bank Academies operates in accordance with its Articles of Association, funding agreements, company and charity law, and the Academy Trust Handbook, ensuring all legal, contractual and financial obligations are fulfilled.

The Trustees are:

• Ruth Spellman (Chair)
• Markos Daskalakis (Vice Chair)
• Safia Barikzai
• Rhoda Egharevba
• Trevor Gordon
• Paul Kett
• Fiona Morey OBE
• Professor Tony Moss
• Christina Turton
• Joanne Young
• Parent trustees x 2 (vacancies)

For information about our trustees click here

Committees
The Board of Trustees delegates some of its responsibilities to two specialist committees:

Quality Committee

The Quality Committee provides strategic oversight and assurance on the quality of education across South Bank Academies, including student outcomes, curriculum, inclusion, equality, safeguarding and wellbeing. The members are of the Quality Committee are:

• Trevor Gordon (Chair)
• Safia Barikzai
• Fiona Morey OBE

Audit and Finance Committee

The Audit and Finance Committee oversees South Bank Academies’ audit and finance arrangements, and the performance and systems of internal control, and advises the Board on their effectiveness. The members of the Audit and Finance Committee are:

• Markos Daskalakis (Chair)
• Rhoda Egharevba
• Christina Turton
• John Cole (Co-opted member)

Register of Members’ and Trustees’ Interests and Attendance

The current register of Members’ and Trustees’ interests, and their attendance at the previous year’s Board meetings is available here: 
SBA Trustees’ Declarations of Interest 2026-2027