1509 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. 1509 GROUP 2018-08-23 → present
2. THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GUILDFORD 2001-06-08 → 2018-08-23
3. THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GUILDFORD LIMITED 2000-11-08 → 2001-06-08

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

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

HaysMac LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Having regard to the above, the Directors believe it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the group financial statements.”

Group structure

1. 1509 GROUP · parent
   1. Royal Grammar School Guildford 100% · England and Wales · Advancement of education
   2. The Royal Grammar School, Guildford Foundation 100% · England and Wales · Fundraising for bursaries (merged with School in July 2024)
   3. The RGS Guildford International Ltd 100% · England and Wales · Supplying intellectual property and guidance; seeking partner schools
   4. The RGS Guildford International (Dubai) Ltd 100% · England and Wales · Supplying intellectual property and guidance for school establishment and operation
   5. The RGS Guildford International (China) Ltd 100% · England and Wales · Supplying intellectual property and guidance for school establishment and operation
   6. The RGS Guildford International (Oman) Ltd 100% · England and Wales · Supplying intellectual property and guidance for school establishment and operation
   7. RGS Guildford Enterprises Ltd 100% · England and Wales · Generating income from letting facilities

Significant events

• “The Royal Grammar School Guildford Foundation merged with the School in July 2024 and will be wound up in due course.”
• “From January 2025, in response to the implementation of VAT on school fees, the School lowered the fee net of VAT so that the total fee payable by parents, including VAT, increased by 3%.”
• “A key strategic development is the decision to become a fully co-educational school from September 2027.”
• “During the year there were sixteen redundancies or termination payments totalling £176k (2024: £60k for one termination).”

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

Filings

9

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

  -3.1%

  £29,823,000 → £28,910,000

• Cash

  -10.3%

  £20,219,000 → £18,142,000

• Net assets

  +2.7%

  £46,669,000 → £47,935,000

• Employees

  -1.4%

  292 → 288

• Wages

  +1.3%

  £13,434,000 → £13,615,000

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