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When we launched GovernorHub in 2013, our aim was to create a product for governors that’s simple and easy-to-use. But as we’ve grown, we’ve stayed close to you …(indeed many of the team use GovernorHub for their board meetings too) …and that means listening to what you tell us about how you use GovernorHub and

Karen Wespieser is well-known in education circles as a researcher who’s held high-profile roles for NFER, CfEE and as Director of Operations  for the special needs charity, The Driver Youth Trust. Her latest role is as the new COO of Teacher Tapp. She became a Local Authority governor 10 years ago, fulfilling a lifelong ambition

This month we say a fond farewell to GovernorHub founder Alex Robinson.  I first met Alex when being interviewed for a job on the GovernorHub help desk. To test my suitability for the role, Alex asked that I imagine he was someone who’s never used the internet before and I should talk him through how

The annual survey by the National Governance Association gives governors and trustees the chance to explain how their boards work and to raise the issues they really care about. We’ve been talking to NGA Chief Executive Emma Knights about the current issues facing boards, the future of governance and why it’s more important than ever

Tom Williams is responsible for operating strategy and implementation at parkrun – one of the world’s largest providers of free physical activity. He sits on several international parkrun boards, which make decisions affecting thousands of events and millions of parkrunners across the globe. But he’s also a fairly new school governor…. so how does it

It’s a problem that no longer needs solving As lockdown and the realities of the pandemic began to dawn on us one thing was clear – governors were going to have to hold remote meetings. We’d had quite a bit of experience with various video conferencing platforms, and none of them were looking particularly great