FOREST SCHOOL, LONDON

1. FOREST SCHOOL, LONDON 2021-12-30 → present
2. FOREST SCHOOL,ESSEX. 1947-02-06 → 2021-12-30

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 Governors have a reasonable expectation that the School has adequate resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future and consider that there were no material uncertainties over the School's financial viability. Accordingly, the Governors continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. FOREST SCHOOL, LONDON · parent
   1. Sylvestrian Enterprises Limited 1% · England and Wales · provision of leisure facilities, the letting of the School's facilities to third parties and a tuck shop facility

Significant events

• “Unsurprisingly, the headline issue occupying much Governing Council and senior executive time during the past year, and which continues to do so, was the impending risk - and which is now the reality - of VAT on school fees and the removal of charitable rates relief across the sector.”
• “During the last year, and after much consideration, Forest took the bold step to expand its Prep School numbers.”
• “During the reporting year our current Warden, Marcus Cliff Hodges, announced his retirement and I thank Marcus for his leadership and unfailing commitment to Forest over the last 20 years. We are delighted that Claire Tao, a proven leader with experience from across a wide range of roles within our sector, will join us as Warden from September 2025.”
• “As anticipated, the Autumn Budget 2024 confirmed the removal of VAT exemption for private school fees for terms beginning on or after 1 January 2025.”

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

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +8.1%

  £29,385,867 → £31,775,772

• Cash

  +513.2%

  £2,657,277 → £16,294,473

• Net assets

  +2.9%

  £16,273,370 → £16,749,848

• Employees

  +1.2%

  417 → 422

• Wages

  +8.8%

  £14,326,601 → £15,582,605

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