GORDONSTOUN SCHOOLS,LIMITED

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  5 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

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

Saffery LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“At the time of approving the financial statements, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. ... Thus, the Trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. GORDONSTOUN SCHOOLS,LIMITED · parent
   1. Gordonstoun Trading Limited 1% · Scotland · school trading activities
   2. Gordonstoun International Limited 1% · England and Wales · franchise activities
   3. Gordonstoun International China Limited 1% · England and Wales · school franchise activities
   4. Gordonstoun International Nova Scotia Limited 1% · England and Wales · school franchise activities
   5. Gordonstoun International AP Limited 1% · England and Wales · school franchise

Significant events

• “In 2024, Gordonstoun celebrated its 90th anniversary. Established by visionary German educationalist Dr Kurt Hahn in 1934”
• “significant anniversaries to mark this year, including 50 years since Gordonstoun's first formal intake of girls and 40 years since the formation of the Gordonstoun American Foundation.”
• “It was a pleasure to welcome new Principal, Peter Green, to Gordonstoun in August, and we wished our departing Principal, Lisa Kerr, the best in her role as Principal at George Watson's College.”
• “The 2023-24 academic year with a more stringent student mobile devices policy. Having successfully restricted use of mobile phones during the school day in 2017, we have gone a step further and now require that mobile phones be left in boarding houses.”
• “Gordonstoun achieved a 'Very Good' in its unannounced inspection by the Care Inspectorate considering the school's boarding provision in November 2024.”
• “the Easter 2024 trip to the Hong Kong Sevens which won the school the Independent School's Trip of the Year Award, as the band had the privilege of piping teams onto the pitch at the games themselves”
• “In the summer of 2024, the Gordonstoun Junior school was renamed Gordonstoun Prep School, or Gordonstoun Prep.”
• “In May 2024, a ground-breaking ceremony took place for the school on Jubail Island, Abu Dhabi. This partnership will see Gordonstoun's unique educational ethos introduced to the Gulf Region, with special focus on character building and skill development for students aged four-to-eighteen. The school in Abu Dhabi is expected to welcome students in September 2026.”
• “For the Year 2023/24 fundraising monies totalled £1,155,333, which is the largest amount raised in one financial year to date.”
• “The closed final salary scheme for non-teaching staff was fully wound up in February 2024.”
• “Uncertainty around the imposition of VAT being applied to fees, now a fact, has contributed to the challenges faced by parents seeking to educate their children at Gordonstoun with a corresponding effect on pupil numbers.”

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

Filings

13

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +11.6%

  £20,481,115 → £22,847,926

• Cash

  +78.3%

  £7,573,956 → £13,504,141

• Net assets

  +12.6%

  £15,753,340 → £17,738,110

• Employees

  0%

  268 → 268

• Wages

  +9.3%

  £9,169,922 → £10,018,309

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