SHIRELAND COLLEGIATE ACADEMY TRUST

1. SHIRELAND COLLEGIATE ACADEMY TRUST 2017-09-06 → present
2. THE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY TRUST 2007-08-07 → 2017-09-06

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

Dains Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the Multi Academy Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. SHIRELAND COLLEGIATE ACADEMY TRUST · parent
   1. Shireland Learning Limited 100% · England and Wales · providing an online learning environment

Significant events

• “Funding pressures due to: Teaching and non-teaching pay award; inflationary costs (energy, food etc); and low pupil numbers.”
• “Inability to monitor the organization effectively and make correct strategic decisions due to the lack of management information (data) - correct data in the right place at the right time.”
• “Lack of experienced staff at senior levels to make strategic decisions.”
• “Difficulties in recruitment and retention.”
• “Appropriate Succession planning.”
• “Sir Mark Grundy, CEO, has announced that he will be retiring at the end of the 2025/26 academic year, with the new CEO having now been appointed, and will be Mr Qamar Riaz. Sir Mark Grundy will undertake an advisory role for one day a week during the 2026/27 academic year to support the transition to the new CEO.”

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

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

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

  +14.7%

  £45,825,201 → £52,583,469

• Cash

  +12.9%

  £3,198,652 → £3,610,763

• Net assets

  +8.5%

  £131,913,202 → £143,076,568

• Employees

  +19.1%

  713 → 849

• Wages

  +11.5%

  £27,745,309 → £30,931,067

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