Trustee Meeting - 3rd February 2023 Acorn Early Years FoundationTrustees’ Meeting Agenda Date: Friday 3rd February 2023 Time: 9:30am - 12pm Location: Westcroft Training Centre (MK4 4DE) Present: Eva Lloyd (Chair), Carolyn Norfolk (part of meeting), Giles Chilton, Narendra Laljani, Damien Beedham, Vanessa Gwynn (part of meeting), Allawee Albaghdadi, Robert Prosser, Katy Pillai Attending: Zoe Raven (CEO), Mark Carter (COO), Santa Svike (Note-taker), Jacinta Ashworth (observer, from Compass, for Governance Review) Apologies: Tracey Coley, Hema Kotecha-Clarke, Laura Faulkner Meeting agenda (Word document version) Meeting Minutes Re-appointment of Vanessa, Damien and Allawee Approval of minutes Trustee Meeting - 19th November 2022 Matters arising Action points from meeting (not on the agenda): Declaration of interests – items on the agenda Items for Discussion, Action, or Decision Verbal updates from committees & safeguarding trustees Discussion of current financial situation and outlook Update and discussion of recent Ofsted inspections, Rowans incident, action plan and changes to the Early Years Team Henley Strategic Management Programme – discussion of their feedback, suggestions, and the issue of profit/purpose balance (in the light of current finances) 'Conflict of Interest' policy review Reports – To Note Content 10. CEO report Christie's Business Outlook Report 2023 Summary of Henley presentation Henley PowerPoint presentation Henley additional feedback Policy review timetable 11. Finance report – MI for Q4 2022 12. Operations Report YMCA Ofsted report Rowans Ofsted report Rowans safeguarding case report Rowans action plan (working document) Shenley Asset Management Plan 13. HR Report 14. Marketing Report 15. Safeguarding Report 16. 2022 KPI scorecard 17. AOB Dates for next meetings: (all 9.30 – 12.00 and in person if at all possible): Saturday 29th April Friday 9th June – strategy day Saturday 28th July Friday 3rd November