This year’s conference and AGM will be held on Thursday 13th November 2025. The conference will be held at the Stables Leisure Complex on Walshaw Road (opposite to the Elton High School). The evening will commence at 6.00pm with a hot buffet and the opportunity to network.
The conference will formally commence at 7.00pm with the highly entertaining and inspiring educationalist Gervase Phinn. A brief resume of Gervase is provided below.
| Professor Gervase Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years before becoming an education adviser and school inspector. He is now a freelance lecturer, broadcaster and writer, a consultant for the Open University, Honorary Fellow of St. John’s College, York, Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) of the University of Leicester, Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) of The University of Hull and the Fellow and Visiting Professor of Education at The University of Teesside. In 2005 the highest academic award of Sheffield Hallam University, Doctor of the University (D.Univ.) was conferred upon him by the Chancellor, Professor Lord Robert Winston. In 2006 he became President of The School Library Association. | |
| He has published many articles, chapters and books and edited a wide range of poetry and short story collections. |
Following a Q and A session the AGM will then take place giving BGA members the opportunity to elect the officers of the executive group.
Places for the conference can be booked through Bury Governor Support on Governors.Support@bury.gov.uk.