David Ablett :

David is an accountant specialising in public sector organisations. He has his own company and provides consultancy and interim services to local authorities. Previously living in Lowestoft - where he was Chair of Denes High School Governors - he is now a resident of Cromer.

Stephen Baker :

Steve has been a member of Corporation since 2006, formerly as parent member but since 2010 as a trustee of the Paston Foundation. Steve works for Norfolk and Suffolk Probation Trust as Procurement and Contracts Manager, having spent most of his career in local authorities (latterly as Head of Service for Leisure and Communities). He was involved in the development of Victory Swimming Pool and the Cromer Seafront Scheme and currently sits on the Board of the Little Theatre, Sheringham. Steve has had a long association with the College and its predecessor School and his three daughters, who were all recently students at the College, were the third successive generation of the family to attend the institution.

Diana Clarke :

Diana has extensive experience as a senior manager in the NHS, having retired from the post of Chief Executive of the local NHS Primary Care Trust after 30 years’ service. She is a Liberal Democrat County Councillor and until recently sat on the Children’s Services panel. Diana chairs the Griffon Area Strategic Partnership for regeneration of North Walsham and surrounding 25 villages, which aims to promote and influence local improvements in the quality of life in the local community. She is the Chair of The Benjamin Foundation which predominately serves young people in need (particularly 16-25 year olds who are homeless) across the County. She is a lifelong member of the St John Ambulance and is involved in Adventure training opportunities for the young members in school. Diana lives in a village near North Walsham, and is married to a secondary school teacher with two teenage children – of whom one is at home and one at university, after spending two successful years at Paston College.

Richard Draper, MBE : Chair of the Remuneration Committee

Richard is Chief Executive of The Benjamin Foundation, a charity providing a broad range of services and facilities, primarily for children & young people, but increasingly for adults, across Norfolk. Richard sits on a number of voluntary and statutory sector Boards and Forums. Richard is also a Lay Canon of Norwich Cathedral. He is a Foundation Governor of Paston Sixth Form College.

Brian Durrant :

Brian is now retired but runs a smallholding near North Walsham. His career covered teaching, advisory and administrative work in education. His connection with Paston goes back to 1939 and he was involved in the creation of the College from the two North Walsham Grammar Schools. Currently he is a Trustee of the Paston College Foundation, the Norfolk Smallholders Training Group (which he chairs) and the Red Poll Development Society (of which he is the Secretary).

Francis Harmer : Vice Chair of the Corporation and Chair of the Finance and General Purposes Committee

Francis is currently employed as an accountant at North Norfolk District Council having held a variety of financial and management positions with a number of local authorities over the last 35 years. An economic and social history graduate and member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, he is the immediate past chair of the College’s Corporation and a very experienced governor. Although most of his time is committed to being a family carer, Francis is also involved with a number of church organisations and charities including YMCA Norfolk where he is a board member.

Nigel Horner-Glister :

Nigel is a chartered surveyor, now a consultant with Horners the Norfolk Auctioneers, a partner of Horners 1890, and managing director of Heatherdown Properties (East Anglia) Limited. He has previously served as town councillor & town mayor and is an active member and past president of North Walsham Rotary Club and past president of the local branch of the St. John’s Ambulance. He has a long association with the College and is a very experienced member of the Corporation.

Alistair Green :

Alistair is a Student Governor for 2011-12.

Alistair came to Paston from North Walsham High School. He is currently studying History, Law and Psychology at A2.

Margaret Hubbard :

Margaret Hubbard has been one of the Staff Governors at the College since 2009 and serves on the Audit Committee. She is an Associate Member of the CIPD and works as Human Resources Officer. She has worked at Paston since 1987. When her children were at school, Margaret was an active Parent Governor at the local junior school. Margaret is also involved with volunteer work with the Norfolk Wherry Trust and is currently a Trustee serving as its Treasurer.

Ivor Kiddle :

Ivor is a director of a large regional crane and plant hire company, having had a long career in the industry (with experience as Past President and Council member of the Construction Plant-hire Association). Ivor serves as a Foundation Governor and is also a Trustee of the Paston College Foundation.

Christine Kimber :

Christine has worked for the College since September 2000, having been a teacher since 1998 in several high schools before joining Paston. Christine currently teaches Mathematics, ICT and some Media studies. She has been an examiner for the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, since 2001 and recently started marking for Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations in 2010. She has been one of the staff Governors since 2009.

Vivienne Lennox :

Vivienne, who qualified as a doctor at Sheffield University, is the parent Governor on the Corporation. She has triplet girls in their first year at Paston, who are studying a variety of A levels and a BTEC in Art and Design, and twin daughters who left Paston in 2010 to go on to university. She has extensive experience of governance, being a school governor at Cromer High School and, since 2003, Chair of Governors at Suffield Park Infant and Nursery School. Vivienne is also involved in the local community in Cromer, being a member of the board of the Poppyland Partnership and of Cromer Past Present and Future, which runs Merchants’ Place, a community resource centre.

Nicola Lucking : Chair of the Corporation and Chair of the Curriculum, Quality and Standards Committee

Nicola is a consultant solicitor with Capron and Helliwell, a local firm based in Wroxham and Stalham, and she specialises in commercial and residential property law. She serves on the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. Nicola also has an interest in social housing and is currently a board member of Springboard Housing, having previously served on and chaired the board of Wherry Housing and St. Matthew Housing. She is also a member of the Norfolk County panel for hearing schools admission and exclusions appeals.

Richard McGreevy : Chair of Audit Committee

Richard is an experienced Governor (having originally served as a parent Governor when his daughter attended the College). Richard became Chair of the Audit Committee in 2007 and was also Chair of the Remuneration Committee in 2009/10. Most of Richard’s career had been spent in the training and development divisions of major financial services organisations until 2005 when he started up his own businesses, one in developing driver skills and the other as host of Norwich Ghost Walks. Richard has a great interest in training in general and developing young people in particular. He brings a wide range of business skills and experience to the Governors.

Peter Mayne : Principal

Peter Mayne has been principal of Paston since June 1996 and has a career of over 35 years in sixth form colleges as a teacher (history and RE), head of department, senior tutor, vice principal and now principal. A history graduate, he began his career in a boys’ grammar school; he has worked in three colleges, and as an LEA advisor. He has 10 years’ experience as an FEFC/Ofsted college inspector, written and lectured on “Effective Learning” and school/college improvement and taught on a higher degree programme. A Council member of the Sixth Form Colleges’ Forum - the national body representing sixth form colleges - and chairing its Reputation and Promotion Committee and the Eastern Region Principals’ group, he sits on the Norfolk 14-19 Strategic Partnership and was the first chair of the NE Norfolk Consortium of schools. Peter has been a governor of a local 11-16 high school and is currently a member of the Corporation of the new Lowestoft Sixth Form College – a project he has been involved in since 2009. He has served as a trustee of the Benjamin Foundation, a director of the Association of Colleges in the Eastern Region and FE advisor to the Norfolk Education Committee. He has also been a member of the North Norfolk Strategic Partnership and various regeneration groups.

Joseph Phillips :

Joseph is a Student Governor for 2011-12.

Joseph came to Paston from Cromer High School. He is currently studying Biology, Chemistry, and Physics at A2.

Peter Stibbons : Chair of the Search & Governance Committee

Peter trained as a teacher and taught in Bath, Leytonstone and Lowestoft before becoming Education Officer at Anglia Television. He become Director of Development and then Managing Director of Anglia Multimedia Ltd., an educational software and new media development company in the group with Anglia Television. He is currently a local history and multimedia publisher and serves as a trustee director on a number of boards.

Clive Stockton :

Clive is an engineer. He has senior management experience in this field including working for GEC. He is now the owner of the Hill House in Happisburgh. Until May 2011 he was district council member and the deputy leader of the North Norfolk District Council.

Liam Morton : Clerk to the Corporation

As Clerk, Liam organises the flow of business to the Corporation and provides independent support and advice on governance practice and procedural matters. A history graduate, Liam has had a substantial career in Higher Education management over a period of more than 30 years (at the universities of Aston, Oxford and East Anglia) and brings experience of handling a range of professional issues at a senior level. Her assignments included management of the successful bid to launch the new medical school at the University of East Anglia and, more recently, the initiative to set up UEA’s new Study Centre in London. Liam is also Clerk to the Corporation of Easton College in Norfolk and was the inaugural Clerk (until July 2011) of Lowestoft Sixth Form College in Suffolk.