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Higham Hall College is an educational trust, a registered charity (#1124959) and a company limited by guarantee (#06421365).
The trust was formed in 2008 to facilitate the purchase and subsequent running of Higham Hall as a centre for the provision and advancement of adult education for the benefit of its students and the local community. Find out more about the history of the trust here.
The work of the trust is overseen by a board of trustees who are elected to serve no more than 6 continuous years from the date of their appointment.
We welcome expressions of interest from individuals who can bring a diversity of experience to the organisation. If you are interested in becoming a trustee, please contact Dr Lizzie Fisher (principal@highamhall.com) to discuss the role.
Chair
Trustee 2020 –
Student since 2016
Former Group Finance Director with manufacturing companies in UK and Sweden. Lifelong enjoyment of art and music as an observer developed into practical skills following retirement in 2015.
Higham Hall courses supported this development. Appointed trustee in 2020 and Chair in 2023.
Trustee 2019 – 25
Stephen spent his career in English teaching, first in secondary schools then as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Leeds.
External examiner for PGCE and higher degrees at various universities.
Lifelong involvement in singing; continues to organise and perform, as player and singer, in Early Music workshops.
Trustee appointed July 2025
Recently retired as Education Manager at the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, previous positions include Head of Educational Strategy Unit at London School of Economics, Head of Communications and Publishing at Gingerbread and Managing Editor at Verso.
She brings exceptional strategic, stakeholder and communications management experience.
Trustee appointed April 2025
Alison’s professional background is in languages teaching, training and inspection. A regular attendee at Higham since the 1980s – from teacher conferences, arts & crafts courses, music and yoga events – Alison has also run training at the Hall for international groups of bilingual teachers.
Her voluntary projects have included surveying for Cumbria Wildlife Trust, representing her parochial church council at various synods, supporting a ‘Speech after Stroke’ conversation class, and running a support group for people bereaved by suicide.
Meanwhile Alison is an enthusiastic singer, a keen outdoor swimmer and a hopeless but hopeful artist and dancer.
Graduate teacher and college lecturer, Lead Verifier Art, Design and Creative Media at City & Guilds; Further Education manager with experience of charity law and other residential colleges; Hon. Fellow of City & Guilds of London Institute, FRSA; Associate Member of the All- Party Parliamentary Group for Craft, Trustee Brooke Robinson Museum, Dudley.
Trustee 2013 – 19 & 2020 –