THE MANOR PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Crowe U.K. LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Despite the introduction of VAT on school fees in January 2025, our pupil numbers have remained strong. We started in September 2024 with 378 pupils and increased throughout the year to 395, our highest roll on record. We continue to market the school actively and maintain high levels of interest in the school with regular parent visits and excellent attendance at Open Days. Pupil outcomes are excellent and, as a consequence, our reputation remains strong and interest and registrations remain high. Management have continued to review and reduce costs and have produced financial models showing the revised cash flows and future forecasts to accommodate the increasingly volatile pupil number projections that arise from the more challenging economic climate. The Governors consider there are no material uncertainties relating to going concern and that the School has adequate resources to continue its activities for at least the twelve months to April 2027. Accordingly, they continue to operate on a going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “2024-25 has been a particularly successful year for The Manor. With our closing roll being the highest on record (395 pupils), we are proud to have been able to welcome many new families to the school, as well as work with existing members of our Manor community. The outstanding reputation of the school ensured a high number of new enquiries and we entered the 2025-26 academic year with some year groups at capacity in spite of the challenges being faced by our sector. This is testament to the ongoing commitment of all staff to deliver amazing experiences whilst recognising each child as an individual and ensuring that our principles of Challenge, Cherish and Inspire are at the heart of all decision making and provision.”
• “This academic year has seen the school continuing to grow, develop and flourish with the success of the provision being externally validated through an extremely positive ISI inspection and subsequent parental survey. During the inspection in November 2024, the team identified many strengths in the school provision, including the warm and robust relationships between staff and pupils; that the children openly and actively think of others before themselves; that pupils benefit from an ambitious curriculum and co-curricular provision; that the children demonstrate creativity and curiosity; that the children feel safe, well supported, valued and confident in their environment; that the community celebrate and respect the many different cultures of the school; that pupils make strong academic progress and are well prepared for transition to senior school.”
• “Reflecting the high-quality provision and experience offered by the school, the parental survey, completed in January 2025, saw an extremely high return rate with most families being represented. The greatest accolade was a Net Promoter Score of 67.5, compared to a sector average of 32, demonstrating the overwhelmingly positive experience Manor families have and the high regard with which they hold the provision on offer.”
• “This year saw a strong focus placed on reviewing the School's cost base to help ensure we are minimising the financial impact for families as far as is reasonably possible without impacting the highest quality provision we are committed to delivering to each and every pupil. A cautious approach to replacing staff leavers was adopted, and several service and utility contracts were renegotiated (including catering, gas and reprographics). Together with other marginal gains, this contributed to some significant overall cost savings. This allowed the School to minimise the fee rise for September 2025 to below the rate of inflation with no impact to provision.”
• “Comprehensive scenario planning around the introduction of VAT on school fees was carried out both throughout the period leading up to the election of the Labour Government in July 2024, and subsequently up to the point the Governors communicated their decision around VAT to parents in August 2024. This planning allowed the School to make a considered decision on how much of the VAT increase would be passed on, minimising the impact on families as far as is reasonably possible, and one that was made early on so that parents were assured of the outcome before the 2024/25 academic year began, giving as much time for families to plan as possible. Furthermore this allowed the school to revise its 2024/25 budget very early on so that it could quickly and appropriately adapt to the projected reduction in income.”

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

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

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

  -0.4%

  £6,174,221 → £6,152,118

• Cash

  -63.8%

  £1,417,747 → £513,247

• Net assets

  +6.9%

  £5,675,447 → £6,068,412

• Employees

  -3.4%

  116 → 112

• Wages

  +0.7%

  £3,447,788 → £3,473,529

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