DUMPTON SCHOOL
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-28 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-14
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
-14.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
-3% vs 2024
Employees
97
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-07-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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11 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- DUMPTON SCHOOL 2010-12-10 → present
- DUMPTON SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED 1968-08-02 → 2010-12-10
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 | £4,318,248 | £4,254,601 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £104,863 | -£217,626 | |
| Cash | £1,578,800 | £1,349,849 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,728,514 | £7,368,216 | |
| Net assets | £7,205,421 | £6,987,794 | |
| Equity | £7,205,421 | £6,987,794 | |
| Average employees | 97 | 97 | |
| Wages | £2,497,819 | £2,825,481 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 2.4% | -5.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 12.1% | 11.3% | |
| Current ratio | 4.07x | 3.33x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Fletcher & Partners
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from the date when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “On 22 September 2025, the Governors announced the intention for Dumpton School to merge with Canford School to form the Canford Schools Group, with the merger formally completing on 1 January 2026.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 44 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROOK, David John | Director | 2025-12-31 | May 1964 | British |
| BROWN, Timothy Mark | Director | 2025-12-31 | Apr 1977 | British |
| WHEELER, Christopher James | Director | 2025-12-31 | Apr 1977 | British |
Show 44 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWNING, Andrew William | Secretary | 2005-10-17 | 2007-03-12 |
| DAVIES, Benjamin | Secretary | 2007-03-12 | 2014-07-17 |
| WATERMAN, Catherine Ann | Secretary | 2014-07-17 | 2018-12-17 |
| WATSON, Alexander Garth Maclaren | Secretary | — | 2005-11-17 |
| BADGER, Stephen Tarrant | Director | — | 1997-11-13 |
| BARKHAM, Edrys Margaret | Director | 2012-12-17 | 2021-07-31 |
| BELL, David Robert | Director | 1994-02-04 | 2003-09-30 |
| BROOKS, Neil Richard | Director | 2024-11-25 | 2025-12-31 |
| CADOGAN, Peter Roy | Director | 1994-02-04 | 2006-06-15 |
| CLOUGH, Jeremy Edward | Director | 2021-08-01 | 2025-12-31 |
| COCKE, Hugh Dean | Director | 2015-03-18 | 2025-03-10 |
| COLFER, William Geraint Thomas Pennant | Director | — | 1996-06-03 |
| COTTAM, Anthony James Leslie | Director | 1997-06-02 | 2010-03-10 |
| CULLEY, Camilla Joyce | Director | 2004-03-02 | 2024-07-31 |
| DAVIES, Benjamin | Director | 2003-10-20 | 2023-11-27 |
| DEKETELAERE, Mark Stephen | Director | 2023-06-19 | 2025-12-31 |
| GIBSON, Susan Veronica | Director | — | 1996-06-03 |
| GREEN, Sara Ellen | Director | 2002-06-17 | 2014-07-04 |
| HANHAM, Michael, Sir | Director | — | 2000-11-11 |
| HOPWOOD, Nicholas Alexander | Director | 2008-12-08 | 2019-07-05 |
| HUNTER, Nicola Louise | Director | 2015-03-18 | 2025-07-14 |
| IRWIN, Felicity Ann | Director | 1994-06-06 | 2005-06-14 |
| JARROLD, Charles John | Director | 2016-02-09 | 2025-12-31 |
| JARVIS, Herbert Arthur | Director | — | 1992-10-16 |
| LAVER, Hilary Kathleen | Director | 2009-03-15 | 2012-07-06 |
| LUMBY, Antony Michael Rawson | Director | — | 1994-05-20 |
| NEWTON, Simon James | Director | 2024-06-11 | 2025-12-31 |
| OFFER, Jayne Charlene | Director | 2020-01-09 | 2024-11-25 |
| QUARRELL, Pippa | Director | 2004-03-23 | 2009-01-01 |
| RAYMOND, John Roland | Director | — | 2011-07-08 |
| ROBINSON, Andrew Charles | Director | 2011-01-28 | 2016-12-05 |
| RYAN, Denis Edgar, Major General | Director | — | 2002-11-19 |
| RYAN, Hannah Jane | Director | 2025-09-01 | 2025-12-31 |
| SADLER, Michael Robin De Clifford, Dr | Director | — | 2012-07-06 |
| SKULE, Torlief Rene, Dr | Director | 2010-08-02 | 2025-03-10 |
| STADDON, Sharon Rosemary | Director | 2025-07-14 | 2025-12-31 |
| SWIFT, Anthony Michael Graham | Director | 2025-03-15 | 2025-12-31 |
| TIMBERLAKE, Mark Richard | Director | 2011-11-07 | 2020-07-31 |
| VAN WENSVEEN, Alex Peter | Director | 2020-02-20 | 2025-12-31 |
| WAGSTAFFE, Michael Christopher | Director | 2006-06-15 | 2015-06-22 |
| WATERMAN, Catherine Ann | Director | 2006-06-15 | 2019-07-05 |
| WEBSTER, Hugh James Derek | Director | 2003-03-10 | 2010-12-06 |
| WEST, Simon David | Director | 2018-12-17 | 2025-12-31 |
| WHEARE, Thomas David | Director | 1993-05-21 | 2004-01-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canford School Limited | Corporate entity | Appoints directors | 2025-12-31 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 201 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-01-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-01-21 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-01-21 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-01-20 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-20 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2026-01-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 11
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
-1.5%
£4,318,248 £4,254,601
-
Cash
-14.5%
£1,578,800 £1,349,849
-
Net assets
-3%
£7,205,421 £6,987,794
-
Employees
0%
97 97
-
Wages
+13.1%
£2,497,819 £2,825,481
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