CHEADLE HULME SCHOOL
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-24 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
+87.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£20M
+4.8% vs 2023
Employees
320
-0.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£914K
+11.1% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £17,920,000 | £18,631,000 | |
| Operating profit | £751,000 | £661,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £823,000 | £914,000 | |
| Net profit | £823,000 | £914,000 | |
| Cash | £4,025,000 | £7,558,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £21,749,000 | £24,077,000 | |
| Net assets | £19,066,000 | £19,980,000 | |
| Equity | £19,066,000 | £19,980,000 | |
| Average employees | 323 | 320 | |
| Wages | £10,359,000 | £11,108,000 |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.2% | 3.5% | |
| Net margin | 4.6% | 4.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.5% | 2.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 25.4% | 32.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.30x | 1.58x | |
| Interest cover | 9.05x | 7.51x |
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
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors also keep under review the short and long-term impact of geopolitical conflict including issues in supply chains, energy costs and other materials costs. Directors believe that the school's financial resources and contingency planning is sufficient to ensure the ability of the School to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future, being at least twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- CHEADLE HULME SCHOOL · parent
- Cheadle Hulme School Enterprises Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “As a result of the Government introduction of VAT on education from 1 January 2025, the School is now VAT registered from 3 November 2024 (being the date the School recognised the need to register).”
- “From April 2025 the School will also lose the 80% reduction in business rates due to removal of the exemption previously afforded to independent schools with charitable status.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 31 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, Christina Ann | Secretary | 2025-03-03 | — | — |
| ABRAHAM, Stuart George | Director | 2020-04-30 | Mar 1976 | British |
| BIRKETT, Joanne Elizabeth | Director | 2017-04-25 | Aug 1975 | British |
| BOLINGBROKE, Michael James | Director | 2018-02-15 | Oct 1965 | British |
| MATLOW, Nici | Director | 2025-04-22 | Sep 1970 | British |
| OMAN, Richard | Director | 2021-10-13 | Dec 1976 | British |
| RILEY, David Noel | Director | 2001-11-29 | Jun 1958 | British |
| ROBERTS, Christopher Andrew | Director | 2010-03-02 | Sep 1971 | British |
| THOMSON, Claire Louise | Director | 2020-10-12 | Sep 1974 | British |
| TYLEY, Martin Gavin | Director | 2017-04-25 | Feb 1974 | British |
| WALMSLEY, Belinda | Director | 2022-02-15 | Dec 1975 | British |
| WRIGHT, Graeme Alcwyn | Director | 2021-02-08 | Dec 1969 | British |
Show 31 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLTON, Anne | Secretary | 2006-09-01 | 2014-01-31 |
| GODFREY, Alan | Secretary | 1999-08-10 | 2006-04-07 |
| JAMES, Warren Austin William | Secretary | 2021-07-01 | 2024-03-28 |
| KERSHAW, Sue | Secretary | 2014-03-31 | 2021-06-30 |
| ANDERSON, James Martin | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2012-08-31 |
| BASRAN, Kamal | Director | 2018-07-17 | 2019-04-29 |
| BIRCHALL, Michael John | Director | 2014-01-01 | 2020-12-10 |
| BOYD, Catherine Jane | Director | 2010-02-01 | 2024-01-15 |
| BRADLEY, Anne | Director | 2008-01-01 | 2011-12-31 |
| BROWN, Barnaby Rees | Director | 2011-10-11 | 2016-07-08 |
| BUTLER, Stella Vera Frances, Dr | Director | 2006-02-09 | 2015-03-09 |
| CRIDLAND, Robin James Scott | Director | 2014-01-01 | 2017-12-31 |
| DRIVER, Peter John | Director | 2001-11-29 | 2020-12-11 |
| JOHNSON, Philip Robert | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2020-12-11 |
| JONES, Samuel Llanddwyn | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2006-12-31 |
| KENYON, Margaret | Director | 2001-09-12 | 2012-10-31 |
| LANGRISH, John, Dr | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2001-11-29 |
| LEIGH, Cynthia Ann | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2001-11-29 |
| MARSHALL, Kay Marie | Director | 2016-01-01 | 2019-03-28 |
| MEADOWCROFT, Norman Russell | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2001-12-31 |
| MORRIS, Len | Director | 2006-03-22 | 2009-06-24 |
| O'BRIEN, Teresa, Dr | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2002-11-28 |
| OGLESBY, Christopher George | Director | 2003-02-12 | 2009-06-30 |
| PROSSER, Jacqueline Anne | Director | 2012-01-01 | 2013-12-31 |
| SHIPLEY, David Charles | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2017-12-31 |
| SIDWELL, Peter John Whiteman | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2012-08-31 |
| SIMON, Richard | Director | 2002-01-12 | 2011-11-05 |
| SQUIRE, Joanne | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2023-12-11 |
| STOREY, Richard George | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2006-07-07 |
| TEASDALE, Eric Leslie, Dr | Director | 1999-08-10 | 2001-09-12 |
| VAN MOURIK BROEKMAN, Johannes Bernadus | Director | 2013-06-04 | 2018-02-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 148 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-09-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-09-02 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-28 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-04-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-25 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-09-02 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-08-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-11-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-30 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
-
Turnover
+4%
£17,920,000 £18,631,000
-
Cash
+87.8%
£4,025,000 £7,558,000
-
Net assets
+4.8%
£19,066,000 £19,980,000
-
Employees
-0.9%
323 320
-
Operating profit
-12%
£751,000 £661,000
-
Profit before tax
+11.1%
£823,000 £914,000
-
Wages
+7.2%
£10,359,000 £11,108,000
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