Robert Lavery

Bob was born in a small mining village in the East Durham coalfield, and worked in the Chemical industry for 26 years before taking up is current role as Procurement Manager at the University of Leeds. His professional skillsets are in Procurement and Finance, with experiences including Buildings, and Health & Safety,

All of his children attended St Joseph’s Pudsey and where he became a parent Governor, serving for a total of six years in office at St Joseph’s with special responsibilities for Buildings, Health & Safety.

Bob then became a Governor at St Mary’s Menston when his children were all going through the School and a vacancy arose in 1998, starting as a parent governor, then becoming a foundation governor. In the course of these 20 years, Bob has held office within the Governing Body as Chair of the Buildings subcommittee, and vice-Chair of Governors before becoming Chair of Governors for 12 years from 2005 until 2017.

In his role as Chair at St Mary’s Menston, Bob played a part in setting up the Bishop Wheeler Catholic Multi-Academy Trust being a Trust Director from the outset. Bob is also a member of the Trust Resources Committee and the Lead Safeguarding Director for the Trust.