ST. MARY'S SCHOOL (COLCHESTER) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-27 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£422K
-45.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£5M
+2.2% vs 2024
Employees
106
+11.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,525,735 | £6,900,695 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £303,931 | £102,981 | |
| Cash | £770,112 | £422,089 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,657,058 | £4,709,539 | |
| Net assets | £4,606,558 | £4,709,539 | |
| Equity | £4,606,558 | £4,709,539 | |
| Average employees | 95 | 106 | |
| Wages | £3,398,188 | £3,649,753 |
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 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 4.7% | 1.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 28.8% | 27.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.49x | 1.38x |
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
- Griffin Chapman
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Having regard to the above, the Governors believe it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Following the government's decision to introduce VAT on school fees from 1 January 2025, the governing body took the decision to support parents by absorbing 7.5% of the VAT increase for the remaining two terms.”
- “During the year HMRC rules changed, the charitable company was required to register for VAT, leading to valuation adjustments related to VAT recoverable on fixed assets.”
- “A significant level of investment was made towards the end of the Summer term and continuing into Autumn for the refurbishment of the Food Technology room and a new Kindergarten building.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
14 active · 41 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHIRET, Lizanne | Secretary | 2023-03-13 | — | — |
| ABBOTT, Katharine Jill | Director | 2019-12-05 | Jan 1974 | British |
| BAERG, Nicole Rae, Dr | Director | 2025-07-10 | Dec 1978 | British |
| BELL, Anthony | Director | 2023-07-06 | Oct 1959 | English |
| EDDY, Esther | Director | 2022-12-08 | Dec 1973 | English |
| FLOWER, Samuel | Director | 2023-12-07 | Aug 1994 | British |
| HAMILTON, Deborah | Director | 2023-07-06 | Sep 1972 | English |
| HAMPTON, Andrew Simon | Director | 2025-03-13 | May 1958 | British |
| LAMBERT, Robert Graeme | Director | 2012-09-24 | Mar 1955 | British |
| MAGILL, William James | Director | 2016-02-04 | Aug 1950 | British |
| O'LAOI, Sarah Catherine | Director | 2026-01-23 | Feb 1978 | British |
| SPENCER-ALLEN, Victoria | Director | 2026-01-23 | May 1978 | British |
| TAYLOR, Katherine Louise | Director | 2025-12-11 | Oct 1981 | British |
| WOODS, Craig | Director | 2023-12-07 | Nov 1990 | British |
Show 41 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARKE, Peter Maxwell Colin | Secretary | 1997-12-01 | 2005-12-30 |
| COTTERILL, David Montagu | Secretary | 1992-06-29 | 1997-12-01 |
| SIMPSON, Andrew George | Secretary | — | 1992-06-29 |
| WALKER, Anne Lynette | Secretary | 2006-01-01 | 2023-01-06 |
| BELL, Daphne Miranda | Director | 2009-06-22 | 2012-07-02 |
| BEVAN, Elizabeth Lucy Mary | Director | 2017-07-05 | 2020-12-31 |
| BORGARTZ, Helen | Director | 2007-06-11 | 2015-03-09 |
| BORGARTZ, Rodney Vernon | Director | — | 2008-06-09 |
| BROWN, Adrian Paul | Director | 1999-11-29 | 2008-06-09 |
| BROWN, Rachel Linsey | Director | 2017-11-02 | 2021-12-02 |
| BURNS, Karen | Director | 2007-06-11 | 2016-11-01 |
| CANNON, Nancy Louise | Director | 2016-05-05 | 2019-02-07 |
| CARMEL, Lara | Director | 2017-02-07 | 2018-05-10 |
| DAVIDSON, Susanna Mary, Dr | Director | 2002-06-17 | 2011-05-31 |
| EDWARDS, John | Director | 1993-03-08 | 1997-11-17 |
| FOAKES, Sheila | Director | 2007-06-11 | 2017-11-02 |
| FRANCIS, Valerie Cecily Joan | Director | 2017-02-07 | 2018-05-10 |
| FULFORD, Janet Irene | Director | — | 2005-06-20 |
| GRAY, Laura Muriel | Director | 2015-10-22 | 2020-03-13 |
| HADDRELL, Marguerite | Director | 1998-06-22 | 2018-12-31 |
| HEATH-BROOK, Kathryn Sarah | Director | 2005-11-21 | 2014-09-26 |
| HILDRED, Adam | Director | 2020-02-21 | 2022-12-23 |
| HOGARTH-JONES, Bruce Jonathan | Director | 2010-09-22 | 2013-09-23 |
| JACKSON, Mark | Director | 2022-05-12 | 2025-07-10 |
| JONES, Janet Jackson | Director | 2004-06-21 | 2009-06-22 |
| JONES, Jean Lois | Director | 1996-06-10 | 2003-11-18 |
| KIMMANCE, Judith Christina | Director | 1995-06-12 | 2009-06-22 |
| LOCKHART, Geoffrey John Charles | Director | — | 1992-06-29 |
| LOXLEY, Melanie Kate | Director | 2013-11-04 | 2023-09-18 |
| MACNAUGHTON, Ian | Director | 1997-11-17 | 2002-12-20 |
| MASTERS, Susan Diane | Director | 1996-06-10 | 2009-11-27 |
| MOLLE, Charles Bell | Director | — | 1992-02-28 |
| MORELLI, Brenda | Director | 2019-02-23 | 2021-02-24 |
| PENDLE, John Richard | Director | 2009-06-22 | 2016-05-13 |
| ROBERTSON, Elizabeth | Director | — | 1997-06-30 |
| ROGERS, Elspeth, Lady | Director | — | 1996-06-10 |
| SWAIN, Helen | Director | 2021-02-11 | 2023-01-11 |
| TRIGGS, Joanne | Director | 2017-02-07 | 2023-01-11 |
| WATERS, Elizabeth Claire | Director | 2012-09-24 | 2017-11-02 |
| WHYBROW, Joan Annette | Director | 1992-06-29 | 1995-06-12 |
| WOODS, Anne Claudette | Director | 2012-05-14 | 2016-05-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 199 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-19 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-12-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2025-08-31 vs 2024-08-31
-
Turnover
+5.7%
£6,525,735 £6,900,695
-
Cash
-45.2%
£770,112 £422,089
-
Net assets
+2.2%
£4,606,558 £4,709,539
-
Employees
+11.6%
95 106
-
Wages
+7.4%
£3,398,188 £3,649,753
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