INCORPORATED BISHOP'S STORTFORD COLLEGE ASSOCIATION(THE)
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-10 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-03-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
-22.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£42M
+2.9% vs 2024
Employees
368
-2.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-07-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £28,848,000 | £28,565,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£722,000 | £995,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£552,000 | £1,172,000 | |
| Cash | £10,623,000 | £8,270,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £47,564,000 | £45,989,000 | |
| Net assets | £41,121,000 | £42,293,000 | |
| Equity | £41,121,000 | £42,293,000 | |
| Average employees | 378 | 368 | |
| Wages | £13,059,000 | £13,598,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.5% | 3.5% | |
| Net margin | -1.9% | 4.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | -1.5% | 2.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.31x | 1.17x | |
| Interest cover | -4.27x | 5.82x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Governors are satisfied that the College has maintained an acceptable level of profitability and cashflows in the year to 31st July 2025 to allow it to carry out its objectives and will continue to do so in the future. Accordingly, the College is operating on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- INCORPORATED BISHOP'S STORTFORD COLLEGE ASSOCIATION(THE) · parent
- Bishop's Stortford College Enterprises Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
15 active · 42 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OGDEN, Joanna Elisabeth | Secretary | 2025-11-07 | — | — |
| ALEXANDER, Douglas Moray | Director | 2017-09-01 | Nov 1962 | British |
| BAKER, Guy Ernest | Director | 2010-08-19 | Jan 1965 | British |
| BARKER, Graeme William Walter | Director | 2019-02-01 | Oct 1946 | British |
| CONTI, Andrew John William | Director | 2017-03-17 | Jun 1967 | British |
| GAMMAGE, Joni Rae | Director | 2022-01-21 | Dec 1973 | British |
| HARGRAVE, Philip John, Dr | Director | 2001-03-23 | Jun 1950 | British |
| HARRISON, Richard Charles Vyvyan | Director | 2015-07-01 | Aug 1967 | British |
| MULLENDER, Pauline | Director | 2016-03-18 | Dec 1944 | British |
| NURBHAI, Suhail, Dr | Director | 2018-09-01 | Jan 1965 | British |
| PEARMAN, Irene Mary | Director | 2004-07-03 | Aug 1961 | British |
| SILK, Ian Jeremy | Director | 2022-01-17 | Aug 1970 | British |
| SOLWAY, Charles Peter | Director | 2015-09-01 | Feb 1967 | British |
| THOMSON, David Fraser | Director | 2017-03-17 | Jan 1960 | British |
| WESTELL, Abigail Helena | Director | 2025-03-14 | Jul 1982 | British |
Show 42 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEMINGWAY, Malcolm Peter | Secretary | 2008-09-01 | 2018-08-31 |
| KELWAY, David James | Secretary | — | 1996-11-01 |
| MCCULLOCH, Ian John | Secretary | 1996-11-01 | 2008-08-31 |
| STANLEY, Paul Michael | Secretary | 2018-09-01 | 2025-11-07 |
| ALEXANDER, Charles Gundry, Sir | Director | — | 1993-03-12 |
| BATEMAN, Duncan Paul | Director | 1993-11-26 | 2006-07-08 |
| BEYNON, Jane Lesley | Director | 1999-07-05 | 2002-07-06 |
| BIRD, Patrick Brian | Director | — | 1993-03-12 |
| BRAMLEY, Govan Paul Raymond | Director | 2008-09-01 | 2016-03-18 |
| BRANT, Geoffrey William | Director | 2006-12-01 | 2015-12-31 |
| COCKBURN, Andrew, Dr | Director | 1992-06-12 | 2000-06-30 |
| CORBY, Frederick Brian, Sir | Director | — | 2002-07-06 |
| CORDEROY, Graham Thomas, The Rev | Director | — | 2002-07-06 |
| DE RIVAZ, Pamela Jane | Director | 2001-11-30 | 2005-05-11 |
| DENNIS, Anne Sylvia, Dr | Director | — | 1999-07-10 |
| DODD, Peter Edmund | Director | 2018-09-01 | 2025-12-12 |
| EVANS, Colin Gower, The Rev | Director | — | 1991-06-14 |
| FARMER, Matthew Jonathan | Director | 2006-12-01 | 2012-07-31 |
| FARRANT, Linda Joyce | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2018-07-01 |
| GOITIANDIA, Monica | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2020-09-07 |
| HAVERS, Christopher Antony Gore | Director | 2005-12-02 | 2016-07-31 |
| JELLIS, Susan | Director | 2002-11-29 | 2015-07-31 |
| JONES, Charles Ian Mcmillan | Director | 1995-03-10 | 2004-07-03 |
| JOSCELYNE, Hugh Patrick | Director | 1998-06-19 | 2002-07-06 |
| LANDER, Stephen James, Sir | Director | 2002-11-29 | 2019-07-06 |
| LEHEC, Stephen Robert | Director | 2021-09-02 | 2025-03-14 |
| LINDOP, Leonard Charles | Director | 2004-06-25 | 2015-07-31 |
| LUNDIE, Donald Arthur | Director | — | 1995-07-08 |
| MCKAY, Margaret Muriel, Reverend | Director | — | 1998-02-11 |
| NICHOLLS, Andrew Mark, Dr | Director | 2007-06-22 | 2014-03-14 |
| NORDEN, Richard Brock | Director | — | 2010-08-19 |
| OLIVER, Edward Morgan | Director | — | 1999-07-10 |
| PARSONSON, Stuart Leonard | Director | 1993-06-11 | 1998-05-01 |
| PERHAM, Richard Nelson | Director | — | 1992-11-27 |
| PYE, Ade, Doctor | Director | 2001-11-30 | 2006-07-08 |
| RADLEY, Peter | Director | — | 2003-07-05 |
| ROGERS, John Nigel Everard, Revd | Director | 2000-12-01 | 2006-07-08 |
| SWAINSBURY, Joanna Shaw, Dr | Director | 1999-03-12 | 2011-07-31 |
| TEE, James Richard | Director | — | 2008-07-05 |
| TRIGG, Anthony Arthur | Director | 2006-12-01 | 2015-06-30 |
| TURNER, David Michael, Doctor | Director | 1992-11-27 | 2006-03-15 |
| WELLS, Richard John | Director | 2016-03-18 | 2019-02-13 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 222 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-02-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-19 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-11-19 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-03-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-28 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-03-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-03-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-03-29 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-03-29 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-03-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-03-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-03-29 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-01-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-07-31 vs 2024-07-31
-
Turnover
-1%
£28,848,000 £28,565,000
-
Cash
-22.2%
£10,623,000 £8,270,000
-
Net assets
+2.9%
£41,121,000 £42,293,000
-
Employees
-2.6%
378 368
-
Operating profit
+237.8%
-£722,000 £995,000
-
Wages
+4.1%
£13,059,000 £13,598,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers