Brantwood Garden School
Governance at Brantwood
Accountability Framework
Brantwood Garden School’s Accountability Framework outlines where responsibility and accountability sits for the key functional areas within its educational provision among tiers of governance and management.
Our Board of Trustees
Scroll along below to see Brantwood’s Board of Trustees.
Helen Kippax - Chair and lead for Safeguarding and Health and Safety
Helen joined Ruskin Mill Trust in 2004 and was tasked with setting up the Trust’s third centre, Freeman College in Sheffield, where she served as Principal until 2012 when she became a Trustee of Ruskin Mill Trust.
Aonghus Gordon OBE - Proprietor
Aonghus has pioneered Ruskin Mill Trust’s unique method of Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE), inspired by Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris’s ideas about social renewal, healthy human development and the importance of art, crafts and land work.
Tara Gratton
Tara started her career in education in 1992 as a teacher in a primary school. In 2004, Tara took up her first Head Teacher role and over the following years has worked with a range of schools and education federations, as a head and executive head, to improve their outcomes and quality. Tara was appointed co-CEO of Ruskin Mill Trust in September 2024 and transitioned to CEO in September 2025.
Dr Constantin Court
Constantin joined Ruskin Mill Trust in 2007 and has vast experience in social and educational establishments, working across different regulative frameworks in organisations who apply the insights of Rudolf Steiner in a contemporary way.
Antonia Whitbread
Antonia is the Head of Legal Services for both Ruskin Mill Trust and its sister charity, Ruskin Mill Land Trust. She joined Brantwood Garden School’s Board of Trustees in 2025.