Sarah Hayes is a solicitor working with Anthony Collins Solicitors, after 15 years of running a smaller practice dedicated to servicing third sector organisations. She specialises in providing legal services to charities and in facilitating connections between the third sector and both public and private sector organisations. Sarah is engaged with policy makers and regulatory bodies in developing good practice within the sector and is committed to working with those engaging with third sector organisations to understand the landscape in which they are having to work. Sarah's experience of education is of having been on the receiving end of it formally, with an initial degree in Politics and Modern History and subsequent professional qualifications as a solicitor.

More recently she has undertaken theological training and is ordained within the Church of England. Sarah passionately believes that the whole of life is about education and that each person's educational journey is life long. Although living and working 'out of the box' has its attractions, Sarah is committed to the view that the box is mythological.