HEREFORD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-01 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-17
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
-19.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£10M
+14.6% vs 2024
Employees
222
-0.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1M
+63.8% vs 2024
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 | £12,616,677 | £12,852,747 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £717,252 | £1,174,610 | |
| Net profit | £831,438 | £1,223,823 | |
| Cash | £7,973,557 | £6,406,689 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,183,152 | £14,196,095 | |
| Net assets | £8,380,383 | £9,604,206 | |
| Equity | £8,380,383 | £9,604,206 | |
| Average employees | 224 | 222 | |
| Wages | £6,146,894 | £6,103,182 |
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 | 6.6% | 9.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 56.1% | 44.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.13x | 2.20x |
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
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Board has paid due attention to the advice and modelling of the School's employees, the SLT and professional advisors including the School's auditors and consider that the School remains financially viable. ... the strong closing position gives the Board confidence that the School was, and remains, a "going concern".”
Group structure
- HEREFORD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL · parent
- HCS Educational Services Limited 100%
Significant events
- “this year, Governors launched their new Q2 strategy”
- “A Safeguarding Committee has been created”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
16 active · 63 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JERRAM, Patrick Lyons | Secretary | 2023-12-13 | — | — |
| ATKINS, Lorraine Michaela | Director | 2023-09-06 | Jun 1966 | British |
| BUTLER, Fiona Jane | Director | 2025-12-08 | Sep 1965 | British |
| DEVAL-REED, Jacquelyne Rebecca | Director | 2021-11-26 | Oct 1963 | British |
| EVANS, Timothy James | Director | 2025-05-01 | Nov 1963 | British |
| HANKS, William John | Director | 2013-09-01 | May 1963 | British |
| HITT, Sarah Jayne, Doctor | Director | 2024-09-18 | Sep 1978 | American |
| JONES, Christian Spencer Malcomson | Director | 2020-07-04 | Apr 1963 | British |
| LEWIS, Michele Louise | Director | 2025-08-18 | Aug 1979 | British |
| LOWTON, Nicholas Gerard, The Reverend Prebendary | Director | 2022-03-25 | Sep 1953 | British |
| MILLAR, Jacqueline Margaret | Director | 2019-11-21 | Mar 1962 | British |
| PALMER, Julian Philip | Director | 2025-03-28 | Nov 1968 | British |
| SHELDON, Jonathan Richard | Director | 2016-03-18 | Sep 1955 | British |
| SNOW, David Wallace Ballintine | Director | 2024-10-10 | Apr 1961 | British |
| STOREY, Jonathan Miles | Director | 2022-06-09 | Sep 1983 | British |
| TEALE, Andrew Terence, Canon | Director | 2011-03-25 | Dec 1971 | British |
Show 63 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREGORY, Trevor John | Secretary | 2003-09-01 | 2004-03-31 |
| JONES, Simon Terry | Secretary | 2004-10-01 | 2009-08-31 |
| LANGSTAFF, Francis David | Secretary | — | 2003-08-31 |
| MILLAR, Jacqueline Margaret | Secretary | 2009-09-01 | 2011-08-31 |
| MOON, Norman John | Secretary | 2011-09-01 | 2013-12-31 |
| PIZII, Robert Liugi | Secretary | 2014-04-28 | 2023-12-31 |
| HEREFORD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL | Corporate Secretary | 2009-09-01 | 2009-09-01 |
| AITCHISON, Gillian Margaret | Director | 1992-05-01 | 1997-07-31 |
| ANDREWS, Peter Joseph | Director | 2010-07-09 | 2013-10-22 |
| ASHCROFT, David William Joseph | Director | 2019-11-21 | 2024-01-18 |
| BENTLEY, Amanda Elizabeth | Director | 2019-11-21 | 2021-11-04 |
| BORTHWICK, Stephen Robert | Director | 2015-08-01 | 2020-12-16 |
| BRADSHAW, Doreen Ann | Director | 2003-07-02 | 2016-09-01 |
| BULL, Oliver Richard Silvester | Director | — | 1997-07-31 |
| BUTLER, David Alan Roy, Rev | Director | 2005-01-20 | 2005-06-10 |
| CHAPMAN, John Anthony | Director | 2000-04-01 | 2004-08-31 |
| CHAPMAN, John Anthony | Director | 1996-09-01 | 1997-08-31 |
| DARNLEY, Adam Ivo Stuart Bligh, The Earl Of | Director | 2003-07-02 | 2012-07-06 |
| DEVAL-REED, Jacquelyne Rebecca | Director | 2017-11-24 | 2019-06-01 |
| ELLIS, Evelyn Daphne | Director | 2007-11-23 | 2016-09-01 |
| FERGUSON, Susan Rose, Dr | Director | — | 1997-07-31 |
| GARLAND, Wallace Lyell | Director | — | 1993-02-01 |
| GLOVER, Lisa Catherine | Director | 2016-10-17 | 2019-08-31 |
| GREGORY, Trevor John | Director | 1993-11-11 | 2003-08-31 |
| HALLIWELL, David Russell | Director | — | 1993-07-20 |
| HAYDN JONES, Robert | Director | 2001-09-01 | 2017-09-01 |
| HAYNES, Peter | Director | — | 1992-03-10 |
| HEIJN, Monique Marcella Frederique | Director | 2001-10-01 | 2003-12-01 |
| HENCHOZ, Patrick | Director | 2004-04-01 | 2010-07-31 |
| HITCHINER, Christopher David | Director | 2001-09-01 | 2022-11-25 |
| ILES, Paul Robert, Revd Canon | Director | — | 2002-11-29 |
| JOHN, Geoffrey Richards | Director | 1997-04-01 | 2003-03-07 |
| KEYES, Timothy Harold | Director | 2015-08-01 | 2023-07-10 |
| MAGOWAN, Alistair James, Rt Rev | Director | 2015-08-01 | 2020-04-06 |
| MASON, Kevin Garrett | Director | — | 1996-12-31 |
| MORRIS, William Thomas | Director | 2000-08-01 | 2007-07-31 |
| MYNORS, Fiona Bridget, Lady | Director | 2008-03-07 | 2014-12-31 |
| NELSON, Gerald Brian | Director | — | 2000-07-08 |
| OLIVER, Meriel Edith Milicent | Director | 1995-03-10 | 2005-12-31 |
| OLIVER DAVIES, Valerie Natasha Vanessa | Director | 2008-03-07 | 2017-09-01 |
| PEACH, John Vincent, Dr | Director | — | 1993-07-10 |
| PIPER, Andrew, The Revd | Director | 2003-05-07 | 2007-07-31 |
| POOLE, Christopher James | Director | 2007-07-10 | 2011-12-08 |
| PORTMAN, Edward Henry Berkeley, The Viscount | Director | 1992-08-01 | 1999-05-02 |
| POTTER, Clive Roger | Director | 2004-04-01 | 2015-11-27 |
| PREECE, Jonathan Derek | Director | 2017-01-12 | 2025-08-17 |
| RHODES, Richard George Nicolas | Director | 2003-09-16 | 2006-12-31 |
| RICHARDS, Clive | Director | — | 2001-05-10 |
| RICHARDSON, Ian David Lea | Director | 1992-05-01 | 2002-11-29 |
| ROBERTS, Hazel, Lady | Director | — | 1995-07-17 |
| ROWETT, John Spencer | Director | 1994-06-28 | 2001-07-14 |
| SEAL, Louise Ann, Doctor | Director | 1997-09-01 | 2011-07-15 |
| SILCOCK, Adrian Glynn | Director | 2002-02-01 | 2010-07-31 |
| SKERRETT, Katy | Director | 2012-03-23 | 2016-09-01 |
| TAVINOR, Michael Edward, Very Revd | Director | 2002-06-14 | 2006-11-20 |
| TILLER, John, The Venerable | Director | 2000-08-01 | 2003-01-21 |
| TILLER, John, The Venerable | Director | — | 1994-12-31 |
| USHER, Karen Schuldt | Director | 2023-03-24 | 2023-12-01 |
| USHER, Karen Schuldt | Director | 2016-10-17 | 2022-04-01 |
| WARREN, Jennet Mary Lloyd | Director | 1997-09-01 | 2006-12-31 |
| WILCOCKS, Philip Lawrence, Rear Admiral | Director | 2015-08-01 | 2023-04-09 |
| WILLIAMS, Peter Henry | Director | 1993-11-11 | 2000-07-31 |
| WILLIS, Robert Andrew, The Very Reverend Dr | Director | 1993-01-08 | 2001-05-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 246 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-04-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-01-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-09 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-13 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-12-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- 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 2025-07-31 vs 2024-07-31
-
Turnover
+1.9%
£12,616,677 £12,852,747
-
Cash
-19.7%
£7,973,557 £6,406,689
-
Net assets
+14.6%
£8,380,383 £9,604,206
-
Employees
-0.9%
224 222
-
Profit before tax
+63.8%
£717,252 £1,174,610
-
Wages
-0.7%
£6,146,894 £6,103,182
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