Governance at Amaze
The role of our Trustees
The role of Amaze’s Board of Trustees is to provide strategic direction, ensuring that the organisation’s strategy delivers on our charitable aims and objectives. Our Trustees oversee the goals we set and ensure we’re making progress towards them. They also ensure we function within the legal, charitable and financial requirements set by statutory and regulatory authorities and that key organisational policies are in place and implemented. This helps ensure Amaze is financially secure, well-run and delivers on all its responsibilities to families, partners, funders, staff and volunteers.
Trustees meet regularly to review our performance and risks, discuss opportunities, and support the Senior Leadership Team at Amaze to implement our plans.
Our Board has 10 members who all bring lived experience as either parent carers of children and young people with SEND or who are disabled themselves. Between them they have a wide range of experience in strategic management, SEND, education, health, care and other areas.
Our Trustees:
- Daniel Barfoot
- Shelley Bennett
- Sally Benson
- Diana Boyd – Chair
- Siobhan Cox
- Eliph Hadert
- Moe Hamdhaidari
- Fungai Murau
- Debby Norris
- Alison Plant
Accountability and transparency
Amaze is committed to accounting for its actions and performance in an open and transparent manner. We publish information about how we perform, what we spend and how we are governed, so that anyone who has an interest in our work can find out about the services we provide and our effectiveness.
We publish our Strategic Plan and an annual Impact Report about our impact and activities on our website each year. We also publish our Audited Accounts .
In addition, copies of our main policies and procedures are available here
Regulation
Amaze is a Company Limited by Guarantee (no: 3818021) and a Registered Charity (no: 1078094). We are registered and regulated by:
- Charity Commission: we adhere to Charity Law and follow the good practice set out in the Charity Code of Governance
- Minimum Standards for SEND Information, Advice and Support Services
- The Fundraising Regulator: we are committed to fundraising in line with the Code of Fundraising Practice in a way that is legal, open, honest and respectful
- ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office): we’re registered and work to best practice standards. Our Data Protection Officer is Ellie Hann, our Database and Performance Manager. The ICO is the UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights.
If you have any questions about Amaze’s governance, email [email protected]
If you have a comment, compliment or complaint about the way Amaze is run, please use the feedback form on our Contact us page.
