Some of his career achievements include Charity Times Fund Raising Manager of the Year, Princes Trust – Volunteer for 14 years, publication of two Fund Raising booklets, Equality and Diversity Champion for a National Housing Association.

She spent 3 years working in the civil service for the DHSS and the Inland Revenue before following a career in the greeting card industry. Her key skills are data analysis, product marketing and brand marketing working for W N Sharpe & Fine Art Developments before taking a position as marketing manager for Hallmark Cards. For the past four  years she has worked for Tailormade Design Ltd, an own brand greeting card company heading up their Product & Marketing dept. She is keen to put her marketing skills to good use to assist in attracting new learners and promoting the college.

She has successfully managed projects at ABL (Action for Business) Ltd which include Sure Start, Manningham, Manningham Healthy Living, PCT & GRD contracts

He understands the challenges that the college faces having conducted a consultancy assignment in late 2010 and wishes to use his financial management expertise together with his general business experience to help Forster Community College to overcome these challenges.

Until September 2005, he was the Headteacher at The Challenge College, which was recognised for its excellence, designated as a Specialist Technology College, awarded Leading Edge Status and identified by Ofsted as a very effective school with outstanding features in the areas of leadership and inclusion.

As Chair of the Bradford Association of Secondary Heads, he was involved in:

1. the outsourcing of Bradford local authority to the  private sector contract with Serco;
2. leading the district wide introduction of the Investment in Excellence programme;
3. the strategic leadership of Bradford Schools Buildings and Re-organisation;
4. the development of 14-19 collaborative arrangements for schools, Further Education Colleges and Work Based Learning providers.

In April 2004, Gareth was seconded as an Executive Headteacher to Blackburn with Darwen, where he led a failing school out of Special Measures.

Gareth is currently the Executive Principal at Bradford Academy which opened in 2007. Its sponsors the Diocese of Bradford have developed a partnership to promote an Academy with the specialism of Citizenship with Enterprise. In 2010 BA was given 19 good and 4 outstanding judgements by Ofsted. In September 2010 the Academy converted to an All through school admitting its first Nursery and Reception age learners. Post 16 at the Academy has grown to 280 making it one of the fastest growing in the country.

Tehmina has been on the governing bodies of two schools in the role as parent and as a community governor.  She also chairs a curriculum and community group at the Academy and appreciates fully the part that governance plays in the leadership and management of a large organization.

Tehmina has chosen to invest her career working with the most disadvantaged young people in the most challenging contexts, where the impact of her contribution has had the optimum benefit. She believes education is about much more than being well qualified, but recognises that without qualifications, disadvantage of any kind can be difficult to overcome.  As an ethnic minority muslim woman she has overcome prejudice and attitudes which have sought to limit her access and opportunity, such that she is resolute in her commitment to make a difference so that others are not similarly disadvantaged.

Her leadership positions across three schools have ranged from setting creating and leading a successful science department as Head of Science, setting up a new collaborative sixth-form in a newly created school as Director of 14-19 education, leading on the Every Child Matters agenda as part of her role as Deputy Headteacher. 

As a member of Muslim Women’s Network (MWNUK) and Secretary of Bradford & District Women’s Forum she has awareness and understanding within multi-cultural, particularly Asian, communities and is committed to taking a lead role in working with Asian women from hard to reach areas and engaging people in non-accredited learning towards accreditation.

Originally from Cheshire, David has served in the forces (nine years in the RAF), followed by a varied career in design, sales, marketing, recruitment, training and product management in the fitted furniture industry

He is a skilled strategic planner and has helped shape corporate policy and strategy in local government. Working with senior management in various public sector bodies he has advised on public sector service planning, undertaken strategic reviews, project evaluation, improvement planning and implementation.

Nadim has specific expertise in building and managing partnerships at strategic and frontline levels. He has built and managed partnerships between public, private and community and voluntary sectors in achieving efficiencies in public sector service delivery and co-ordination at a local level. He has pioneered a framework for joint working between agencies supporting the workless into jobs.

Dr Samuel in the early part of his career worked as a full-time lecturer at Bradford College for a period of nine years. He has recently retired from full-time employment as a University Lecturer (Principal Lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University)- a role which latterly involved teaching, research and coordination/management of some of the University's programmes and projects in Africa. In retirement, he operates as a freelance Education and International Development Consultant, drawing on his vast experience of such international work in South Africa, Europe, North America and the Caribbean in a variety of educational and management roles, including managing projects for his employing University and for the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Assistance (CFTC) of the Commonwealth Secretariat, London.