SHERBORNE SCHOOLS GROUP

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. SHERBORNE SCHOOLS GROUP 2024-07-10 → present
2. SHERBORNE SCHOOL 2000-05-26 → 2024-07-10

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Crowe U.K. LLP

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 group's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. SHERBORNE SCHOOLS GROUP · parent
   1. Sherborne School (Trading) Limited 100% · UK · Operation of Sherborne Boys sports and uniform shop, Hub cafe and provision of letting and educational services.
   2. Sherborne School (Leisure) Limited 100% · UK · Provision of leisure facilities.
   3. Sherborne School (Overseas Trading) Limited 100% · UK · Promote charitable purposes of SSG in Qatar and any other charitable purpose connected with or otherwise associated with the Schools.
   4. Mulliner Trading (Sherborne) Limited 100% · UK · Operation of the Sherborne Girls sports and uniform shop, Queenie's cafe and the provision of letting and educational services.
   5. Sherborne Schools Worldwide Limited 100% · UK · Promote the charitable purposes of SSG overseas and to promote any other charitable purpose connected with or otherwise associated with the Schools.
   6. Sherborne Sports and Leisure Limited 100% · UK · Provision of leisure facilities.
   7. The Sherborne School Foundation 100% · UK · Promote the charitable purposes of Sherborne Boys in Dorset and to promote any other charitable purpose connected with or otherwise associated with the School.
   8. The Sherborne Girls Foundation 100% · UK · Promote the charitable purposes of Sherborne Girls in Dorset and to promote any other charitable purpose connected with or otherwise associated with the School.
   9. Sherborne (Overseas Education) Limited 100% · UK · Dormant.

Significant events

• “Formed in July 2024 through the merger of two long-established charitable trusts, SSG brings together a family of exceptional schools.”
• “The merger was successfully completed on the 1 July 2024, when Sherborne School for Girls donated all its trade and assets to SSG, to coincide with the start of this financial reporting period.”
• “A new Executive Committee for the Group has been established comprising a newly created position of Executive Chair, the Heads of the schools, a Chief Operating Officer and a Director of External Affairs.”
• “In the 2025 Sherborne Girls was named Sixth Form of the Year by The Week and was a finalist for Best Pupil Wellbeing in the Independent School of the Year awards.”
• “Sherborne Boys was a finalist for Boys' School of the Year in the same awards and won the Alumni Relations Champion category in the School House Awards.”
• “A new overseas franchise partnership commenced in 2025, extending our global reach and strengthening our international profile.”
• “Hanford Committee (disbanded 31 December 2024).”
• “SPS Committee (disbanded 31 December 2024).”
• “Marketing and Admissions Committee (formed in April 2025).”

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

Filings

13

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +81.2%

  £28,566,000 → £51,752,000

• Cash

  +89.3%

  £8,047,000 → £15,235,000

• Net assets

  +69.7%

  £44,616,000 → £75,717,000

• Employees

  +82%

  477 → 868

• Profit before tax

  +4,220.1%

  £717,000 → £30,975,000

• Wages

  +84.2%

  £13,850,000 → £25,512,000

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