LONDON DIOCESAN BOARD FOR SCHOOLS(THE)

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. LONDON DIOCESAN BOARD FOR SCHOOLS(THE) 1982-08-11 → present
2. LONDON DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION (INCORPORATED) 1924-05-22 → 1982-08-11

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

HaysMac LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and accounts.”

Group structure

1. LONDON DIOCESAN BOARD FOR SCHOOLS(THE) · parent
   1. Grow Education Partners Limited 100% · England & Wales · provision of consultancy services to schools
   2. City and Diocese of London Voluntary Schools Fund · provides grants to schools for maintenance of school premises and to young persons

Significant events

• “Whilst we have seen some limited consultations this year which may result in the closure of three Church schools by January 26, we realise that decisions are often borne of local and national politics rather than on any consistent criteria that may be applied across the whole city.”
• “Sadly, two Church of England primary schools are due to close in August 2025 after their Local Authorities issued closure notices: St Mary's School, Stoke Newington (Hackney) and St Jude & St Paul's School (Islington).”
• “Consultations are underway in relation to one further Church school, St Cuthbert with St Matthias School (RBKC). The school has a proposed closure date of December 2025.”
• “We reported last year that two Church schools in the Diocese had been found to be made in part from RAAC (Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete), a type of porous concrete widely used in schools from the 1950s to the 1990s.”
• “A programme of works has now been agreed with DfE, and funding secured, in relation to one school. The second school has been allocated to the School Rebuilding Programme (SRP) Phase 1 and is in the early stages of the design phase of the feasibility stage. We anticipate the refurbishment/ rebuilding of the school will commence in late 2026 and be delivered in 2030/31.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

12

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

5

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +14.5%

  £2,329,000 → £2,667,000

• Cash

  +27.7%

  £9,937,000 → £12,692,000

• Net assets

  -14.1%

  £44,075,000 → £37,869,000

• Employees

  -9.7%

  31 → 28

• Operating profit

  +592.1%

  -£191,000 → £940,000

• Wages

  +2.5%

  £1,782,000 → £1,827,000

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