Trustee Meeting - 29th April 2023 Acorn Early Years FoundationTrustees’ Meeting Agenda Date: Saturday 29th April 2023 Time: 9:15 - 13:00 Location: Westcroft Training Centre (MK4 4DE) Present: Eva Lloyd (Chair), Carolyn Norfolk, Giles Chilton, Narendra Laljani, Vanessa Gwynn, Allawee Albaghdadi, Hema Kotecha-Clarke (until midday), Laura Faulkner, Robert Prosser Attending: Zoe Raven (CEO), Steve Petty (Facilities and Health & Safety Manager), Laura Andrews (Head of Early Years & Compliance), Santa Svike (Note-taker), Mike Hudson (Compass Partnership Governance Review Director) - part of meeting Apologies: Damien Beedham, Katy Pillai, Tracey Coley Meeting agenda (Word document version) Rolling actions Meeting minutes Governance review workshop notes Governance review workshop presentation slides Governance review workshop (9:30am-11:45am)- 1.1 Workshop agenda- 1.2 2023 Governance Review Brief review of governance review Approval of minutes- Trustee Meeting - 3rd February 2023 Matters arising Action points from meeting (not on the agenda): Declaration of interests – items on the agenda Items for Discussion, Action, or Decision 6. Proposal of a Remuneration Committee - 6.1 Proposal - 6.2 Draft terms of reference 7. Approval of terms of reference for the Strategy & Impact Working Group 8. Verbal updates from committees & safeguarding trustees 9. Approval of 2022 annual accounts & report (& discussion of financial MI) 10. Approval of ‘Letter of Representation’ 11. Plans for Strategy Day Reports – To Note Content 12. CEO report 13. Finance report – MI for Q1 2023 14. Operations report 15. HR report 16. Marketing report 17. Early Years report - Jubilee Wood Ofsted report 18. Safeguarding report 19. 2023 KPI scorecard 20. AOB Zoe, SLT & Santa to leave the meeting. 21. CEO remuneration Dates for next meetings: (all 9.30 – 12.00 and in person if at all possible): Friday 9th June – Strategy Day Saturday 28th July Friday 3rd November