Neil Blundell MA is the CEO of Cathedral Schools Trust. Neil was Headteacher at BCCS from 2008 and worked through the growth of the organisation from 300 students to the current 1200.  In 2013 he founded Cathedral Primary School a free school sharing a campus with BCCS and in 2016 submitted another bid for a secondary school in Bristol Trinity Academy which successfully opened in 2019. Cathedral Schools Trust was formed in 2016 and BCCS became a teaching school in the same year. Neil has worked in a number of settings across the region as an NLE,  EE, CTI coach and NPQEL facilitator. He has also worked as a consultant on other capital projects.

Fiona Francombe is the Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, one of the most prestigious and renowned drama schools in the UK.

Prior to her appointment in August 2020, she held the position of Site Director of The Bottle Yard Studios, an established base for film and TV production in South Bristol. She established and managed the seven-acre film and television facility (owned by Bristol City Council) since it opened in 2010.

Fiona started her career working in theatre, including the Manchester Royal Exchange and the Royal Shakespeare Company, before moving into television in 1990 when she joined the BBC’s Drama department in London. Three years later she relocated to Bristol and worked for more than 14 years as a Location Manager and Line Producer for TV drama, before going on to manage production liaison for South West Screen and Creative England.

Fiona was one of the Mayor of Bristol’s C4 group that was instrumental in Bristol winning the bid to become a Channel 4 creative hub. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of England in July 2019 for her services to film and television and is a member of the Society of Merchant Venturers.

Fiona’s husband, Andrew, works as a freelance executive Production Designer in high-end television drama. All three of their children attended Bristol Cathedral School over two decades (1993 – 2014), and Fiona is delighted to be in a position to give something back to the school and the wider Trust.

Guy retired from a wide range of professional experiences before and after ordination in the Church of England. Before ordination he worked in Uganda and Mauritius on international development projects, for seven years from 1973 in the European Commission as a Principal Administrator and then returned to the UK as a Director of a multinational food company.

Since ordination Guy worked in a variety of roles: as a parish priest in Coventry, Guildford, Birmingham and London; as Archdeacon of Bradford; and as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Secretary for Inter Religious Affairs. As a parish priest he was responsible for two major building and reorganisation projects, as Archdeacon for founding the ICLS/Catalyst organisation bringing young people of different faiths together for a programme of friendship and skills acquisition and Chair of Governors of a newbuild Church secondary school; as Archbishop’s Secretary, for the founding and development of the Near Neighbours and Presence & Engagement programmes.

He was appointed CBE in 2011 for services to inter faith relations; he is a trustee of Faith for the Climate; founded the Faith Forum for London and is one of the authors of the Church of England’s core document on relations with Judaism.

He is married to Tessa, an artist and author and they have five children