Ben Cooper Email & Phone Number

Chichester, GB

West Sussex

Recenseo is an integrated marketing and PR agency engaged by organisations across the education, healthcare, professional services and technology sectors. I provide strategic board level consultancy and challenge to a range of UK and International companies on all aspects of marketing and PR, from developing revenue generating campaigns through to M&A.

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

The Mill Primary Academy, is a successful school with a rising number of pupils. I was appointed by the Trust in September 2022 as Consultant Chair of Governors, tasked with providing mentoring and development support to the governing body so that it can elect a Chair from within its own ranks. The Mill enjoys an engaged team of governors but with no.

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

Appointed by the Trust in Summer 2022, I am working with the local governing body to develop it into a fully functioning and high performing team able to support the school. Initially focused on recruiting additional governors with key skills, I am also supporting the new Headteacher and collaborating with her to deliver a formal and regular form of.

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

I was appointed by TKAT as Consultant Chair of Governors across three of the primary schools in Crawley, West Sussex which were all in need of some experienced governance support. The Chair at Bewbush was stepping down after a significant period leading the local governing body. Having struggled with governor recruitment, the Local Governing Body was.

Havant, England, United Kingdom

Front Lawn Primary Academy is a beacon of best practice and delivers some of the best outcomes at KS2 within the Trust and regionally. In 2021, the local governance team had become much depleted and needed support. I was appointed as Consultant Chair of Governors by the Trust to ensure that the local governing body was in a position to support the school.

Gosport, England, United Kingdom

I joined Brdgemary to help revive and rebuild the local governing body following a tough Ofsted visit in February 2020. The judgement of Requires Improvement invoked a period of significant change for the school which included a focus on improving the local governance team. As Consultant Chair of Governors at Bridgemary I have:- Recruited new governors.

Havant, England, United Kingdom

I was appointed by the Trust to join Havant Academy as Consultant Chair of Governors at a time whereby the school had only two non staff/parent Governors, both of whom had recently joined and had no direct school governance experience. I was tasked with recruiting additional governors and getting the local governing body to a point whereby it can elect a.

Chichester, England, United Kingdom

The Kemnal Academies Trust is one of the UK’s largest Multi Academy Trusts managing 45 schools. Working with the central team, I manage HR investigations and handle complaints in line with school, safeguarding, whistleblowing, grievance or employment policies. With each case I focus on how issues can be identified earlier and managed differently to avoid.

Selsey, West Sussex, United Kingdom

I am an active member and previously Chair (2016-2020) of the Local Governing Body at The Academy, Selsey. The school rose to prominence in 2016 when over 70% of it was destroyed by fire. Since then the role of the governors has been to ensure delivery of an outstanding education for all and the delivery of an outstanding facility in which to teach.

Selsey, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Ferry Farm is a 5MW Community solar farm in Selsey, West Sussex. With a build cost in excess of £5m, I played a key role in bringing the scheme to life. Supported by Communities for Renewables we secured initial build capital for the project and also ran a highly successful community share offer which raised a further £360k of investment. After 4 years.

Chichester, West Sussex

West Sussex Business Solutions was the software arm of the Recenseo consultancy business.WSBS is a value added reseller of accounting and business management software applications specialising in web based or ‘cloud’ solutions. WSBS is an accredited partner for Sage, Brightpearl and Aqilla with clients across the south east and a well-used online software.

CancerWise is a Chichester based charity providing support to cancer patients and their families in the local area. From the centre near the picturesque Chichester canal, Cancerwise provides a range of free, complementary treatments and therapies and advice to Cancer patients in (south) West Sussex and South East Hampshire.I sat on the board for a year.

Surrey

A fixed term contract role, (delivered as Recenseo) I worked with the owners of the business to set up the sales and marketing aspects of their new SAP Business One practice. I was also involved with the very early stages of the strategy to write and market their own range of complementary software solutions for SunSystems and SAP B1 - which has gone on to.

Marketing and Selling the award winning Exchequer ERP System to companies in Central London and the South East.Whilst primarily charged with client acquisition, my role also included overseeing the support function and all aspects of customer service from account management to project management. During my tenure the company increased its Exchequer client.

Marketing and selling SunSystems and related software applications to UK 'PLC level' companies.

Having been promoted from an internal account management role I ended up looking after the top 20 UK channel partners for this BACS processing software author, generating annual revenues of £600k.This role gave me a broad knowledge and experience of the UK ERP and accounting software sector as I interacted with fellow channel managers in the leading.