THE DEAN CLOSE FOUNDATION

1. THE DEAN CLOSE FOUNDATION 2016-04-24 → present
2. DEAN CLOSE SCHOOL 2001-04-04 → 2016-04-24

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

“On the basis of this review, these financial statements have been prepared on a Going Concern basis, which the Trustees consider to be appropriate based on the results for the year ending 31 August 2025 and cash flow projections prepared for the period 31 August 2026 and beyond. The cash flow projections indicate that the Group will be able to meet its liabilities as they fall due and will be able to operate within the facilities currently available. The Trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties over the Foundation's financial viability.”

Group structure

1. THE DEAN CLOSE FOUNDATION · parent
   1. Dean Close Services Limited · school shops, management and letting of facilities
   2. Dean Close Nurseries Limited · provision of nursery care

Significant events

• “A farm of some 324 acres in Oxfordshire was gifted to the DCF during the year. The value was £5.5m and is restricted in its purpose to generate income to fund transformational bursaries, the asset will be treated as an investment asset.”
• “Kingham Hill School, a boarding / day school with pupils from school year 7 to 13 donated its trade, assets and most liabilities to DCF completing on the 31st July 2025, the net asset value of which is treated as a donation of £23.6m.”
• “Capital investment during the year totalled £2.1m. This included the building of a six lane cricket net facility, a large Estates building, refurbishment and repurposing of a large signal box purchased from GWR.”
• “We opened one new nursery in Tewkesbury and acquired two nurseries in the Stroud area. This brings the number of Day Nurseries to nine.”

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

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +5%

  £32,848,131 → £34,494,899

• Cash

  -80.9%

  £4,383,430 → £836,978

• Net assets

  +152.7%

  £18,500,771 → £46,753,406

• Employees

  +8.6%

  781 → 848

• Operating profit

  +4,074.8%

  £549,943 → £22,959,270

• Profit before tax

  +4,074.8%

  £549,943 → £22,959,270

• Wages

  +15.2%

  £17,751,060 → £20,452,853

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