Our Staff

Diana Hatchett, Director
Di was, until 2008, Senior Director within the government’s Primary National Strategy, responsible for its work on intervention for children at risk of under-achievement. Di has been a long serving primary teacher and was for twelve years headteacher of a large urban primary school. She has also worked as a local authority senior manager, and a member of the small government team that developed and implemented the National Literacy Strategy. In the latter role Di led on the development of widely-used publications and resources designed to help teachers provide targeted support for underachieving children and also worked very closely with over thirty Local Authorities.

Di’s recent work, as a member of the Senior Management team of the Primary National Strategy, has focused on the links between additional support for children with a range of learning needs and the teaching they receive in class, and on meeting the needs of children from minority ethnic groups and those learning English as an Additional Language. She is a national expert in these areas, responsible for key government publications and guidance. Other key areas of expertise are the leadership and management of intervention in schools, and effective and aligned local authority practices to tackle underachievement.

 

Jeanette Grose, Director of Operations and Development
Jeanette has held a number of senior positions in support of national educational programmes for children and young people.  These have included ICAN, a speech and language education charity, the YMCA, City and Hackney PCT and the Department for Children Schools and Families Trust Schools and Academies initiatives.  Jeanette’s main areas of expertise lie in fundraising and communications within the public, voluntary and corporate sectors and she was previously a Senior Director at Saatchi & Saatchi’s marketing communications division.

With many years experience of developing multi agency partnerships, Jeanette has focussed her efforts in seed funding start up charities/programmes and securing long-term sustainable funds for infrastructure costs and projects.  She has particular knowledge of the business and trusts sector and has previously managed major charity partnerships with Prudential, Aviva, Morgan Stanley, Tesco and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.  Jeanette is passionate about supporting volunteer initiatives and helped to raise £15.75m for V, a youth volunteering charity, co-funded by the Treasury and subsidised places for 4,000 people to volunteer at Vitalise disability holiday centres throughout the UK.