Amy Dalzell

Chair and Trustee

Leanne Morgan

Deputy Chair and Trustee

Sarah Breton  

Treasurer and Trustee

Kay Clark

Secretary and Trustee

Zoe Ford

Communications Manager

Bridget Norman

Head Teacher and Trustee

Kate Timney

Trustee

Cecily Palmer

Trustee

Adam Baddeley

Trustee

Marc Pate

Trustee

Chair

This role also works well shared between two people.

• Ensures Friends of Hillcrest fulfils its aims and purposes (enriching the children’s experience and education).
• Plans potential calendar of events for the year with the help of the Secretary/committee and Friends members. Liaises with the school to schedule events and avoid clashes with the school timetable.
• Oversees communication with the School (with help of the Secretary) regarding Friends meetings and forthcoming events.
• Ensures meetings take place each term and as required to support events.
• Makes sure Trustees are informed and consulted about the spending of Friends money/funding requests and that all opinions are heard.
• Provides support at events where possible.

Deputy Chair

• Supports the Chair and the committee. Helps plan the Friends’ events for the year, shares opinions and ideas.
• Attends Friends’ meetings, ensures events are resourced to take place and provide support at events where possible.

Secretary

• Provides administrative support by sharing the following with the school mailbag / website, the Friends mailing list and class reps.
  • Dates of Friends meetings (approx one per term and as required to support events).
  • Minutes of Friends meetings.
  • Updates on Friends activities where required.
• Writes minutes at Friends meetings.
• Helps plan Friends’ events for the year. Shares opinions and ideas and gives support at events where possible.

Treasurer

• Ensures money raised is recorded and banked.
• Manages the budget.
• Makes payments for purchases.
• Writes an end of year summary of the accounts.

Trustee
(six in total)

• Provides advice and oversight for Friends. Supports the Chair by ensuring money raised is spent carefully and well. Provides their views on plans/costs for events and other activities to be funded with Friends’ money in line with aim (enriching the children’s experience and education).
• Makes suggestions about activities/events Friends should fund to fulfil our aims (enriching the children’s experience and education).
• Attends Friends’ meetings and provide support for events where possible. 

Class reps (two per year group)

• Shares information with a WhatsApp group for their class/year group about upcoming Friends activities / events.
• Feeds back ideas or comments from the class/year group.
• Attends some Friends’ meetings, but no obligation to join them all.

Volunteer

• Gives some time to support or lead an activity / event (or part of an activity / event), either in the run up or on the day. Any amount of time is extremely helpful to Friends!
• Shares opinions and ideas for activities / events.