Robert is a Bristol born solicitor and until recently Managing Partner and then Senior Partner of TLT, a national law firm headquartered in Bristol. Robert is a member of the Council of the Law Society of England & Wales (President 2016/17) and a member of its Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee. Robert has been involved with a number of organisations focussed on education and is determined that all students have the opportunity to achieve at the highest level. Robert is the Chair of the Local Governing Body for Bannerman Road Community Academy and the SEND governor.

Anna Hicks has been a higher level teaching assistant at BRCA for 1 year, responsible for the academy behaviour monitoring. Prior to that Anna worked at BRCA as a 1:1 teaching assistant, at Merchants academy in the ARB, and at a mainstream school as a class teaching assistant. Anna retrained in 2014 to follow her passion of education having previously spent 22 years in Finance. Anna has been a parent governor at her sons’ school for 8 years and is now the staff representative at BRCA. Staff Governor Term of office from 4 Feb 2023 to 3 Feb 2027 First appointed on 6 Mar 2019

Parent Governor Term of office from 25 Nov 2021 to 25 Nov 2025 First appointed on 25 Nov 2021

Application in progress

2023-07-06 appointed, 2027-07-05 proposed end of term

Parent Governor Term of office from 19 Jul 2022 to 18 Jul 2026 First appointed on 19 Jul 2022