Susan Matheson
COO, Maritime Academy Trust
Susan is Chief Operating Officer at Maritime Academy Trust and CEO of the new Maritime Children’s Foundation. She joined Maritime in January 2018 from the Department for Education.
Her career started in the government economics fast stream in 2001, where she served at the Department for International Development before moving to HM Treasury in 2004. She spent a decade there, culminating in leading 2012 spending review negotiations for the education team. In 2014 she moved to DfE, where she headed the implementation group, led the central capital unit through the 2015 capital settlement, and then became deputy director to the south west regional schools commissioner, overseeing over 1,000 academies. At Maritime, she leads finance, HR, estates, marketing, IT, and strategic projects. She also founded and now leads the Maritime Children’s Foundation.
1 Workshop series two
Maritime Children’s Foundation: Why did we set it up? How did we do it? What have we learned along the way?
This session is for colleagues in trusts who are curious about the why, how. and what of setting up a charity. Join us for an overview of our experience over the last 3 years, the good, the bad and what we’ve learned along the way. We’ll share why Maritime chose to set up our charity back in 2023. We will then walk you through the steps we took to set it up - in simple terms, with key learnings along the way. Then we will reflect on what we have learned from just over one year of running the registered charity and the impact that we have had so far.