HABERDASHERS' WEST MIDLANDS ACADEMIES TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-07 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-03-24
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-25.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£16M
-2.2% vs 2024
Employees
304
+1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HABERDASHERS' WEST MIDLANDS ACADEMIES TRUST 2022-03-22 → present
- HABERDASHERS' ADAMS' FEDERATION TRUST 2008-03-28 → 2022-03-22
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £18,187,000 | £18,880,000 | |
| Operating profit | £139,000 | -£347,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£439,000 | -£902,000 | |
| Cash | £2,388,000 | £1,780,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £16,796,000 | £15,804,000 | |
| Net assets | £15,941,000 | £15,586,000 | |
| Equity | £15,941,000 | £15,586,000 | |
| Average employees | 301 | 304 | |
| Wages | £9,768,000 | £10,739,000 |
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 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 0.8% | -1.8% | |
| Net margin | -2.4% | -4.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.8% | -2.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 15.5% | 11.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.50x | 1.26x | |
| Interest cover | 69.50x | -23.13x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Saffery LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, the going concern basis has been adopted in the preparation of these financial statements.”
Group structure
- HABERDASHERS' WEST MIDLANDS ACADEMIES TRUST · parent
- HAFT Trading Limited 100%
Significant events
- “With effect from 1st September 2023, Castle House School, an independent preparatory day school for boys and girls located in Newport, became affiliated to the Trust and changed its name to Haberdashers' Castle House School.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 23 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BURNS, Adrian Gerald | Secretary | 2011-08-10 | — | — |
| DORMAN, Simon Henry | Director | 2023-09-19 | Oct 1971 | British |
| GALLAGHER, John | Director | 2013-07-18 | Jan 1960 | Welsh |
| JONES, David Edward | Director | 2019-12-10 | Oct 1974 | British |
| MITCHELL, Sarah | Director | 2022-09-21 | Apr 1974 | British |
| NIELSEN, Michael John Braddick | Director | 2024-09-01 | Nov 1995 | British |
| SEARLES, Mark Peter Lister | Director | 2020-09-23 | Jan 1961 | British,Australian |
| WATT, Colin Forbes | Director | 2011-08-10 | Apr 1962 | British |
| WOOD, Simon Christopher | Director | 2025-04-03 | Jun 1963 | British |
Show 23 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROWLAND, Peter Nigel | Secretary | 2009-10-12 | 2011-08-08 |
| SNELL, Allan Michael | Secretary | 2008-08-07 | 2009-07-20 |
| SK SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2008-03-28 | 2008-08-07 |
| BARROW, Roderick Guy | Director | 2014-07-19 | 2019-12-31 |
| BATEMAN, Christopher John Turner, Dr | Director | 2010-03-25 | 2011-08-04 |
| BATES, Jonathan Ernest Norman | Director | 2013-11-25 | 2014-11-25 |
| BURBIDGE, Kimberley | Director | 2013-08-03 | 2017-10-26 |
| CANN, John William Anthony | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2019-08-31 |
| CHAUNDLER, Margot Suzanne | Director | 2009-10-12 | 2016-07-22 |
| GALLAGHER, John | Director | 2011-08-10 | 2012-12-10 |
| GLOVER, Richard Gordon Finlay | Director | 2015-11-20 | 2016-11-24 |
| GOULDING, Jeremy Wynne Ruthven | Director | 2013-06-20 | 2018-12-31 |
| HAMILTON, Jonathan Harry Wharton | Director | 2008-03-28 | 2013-04-23 |
| HARNISCH, Henriette, Dr | Director | 2011-08-10 | 2013-07-18 |
| JUSTER, David Howard | Director | 2008-03-28 | 2010-05-05 |
| OSBORNE, Michael Andrew | Director | 2019-12-10 | 2022-11-17 |
| PENNEY, James | Director | 2017-03-06 | 2024-08-31 |
| POWELL, Bruce Lewis Hamilton | Director | 2011-08-10 | 2011-11-25 |
| POWELL, Bruce Lewis Hamilton | Director | 2008-03-28 | 2009-02-12 |
| POWELL, Geoffrey Mark | Director | 2012-11-26 | 2013-11-25 |
| RUSSELL, William Anthony Bowater, Sir | Director | 2009-02-12 | 2014-07-11 |
| TAYLOR, Samuel Vernon | Director | 2011-08-10 | 2020-07-16 |
| WALTERS, Maurice Henry | Director | 2019-12-10 | 2022-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 108 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-03-22 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2022-03-22 NE01 Change of name exemption
- 2022-03-22 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-06-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-31 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-02-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-12-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-04-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-22 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2022-03-22 | NE01 | change-of-name | Change of name exemption | |
| 2022-03-22 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2021-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-08-31 vs 2024-08-31
-
Turnover
+3.8%
£18,187,000 £18,880,000
-
Cash
-25.5%
£2,388,000 £1,780,000
-
Net assets
-2.2%
£15,941,000 £15,586,000
-
Employees
+1%
301 304
-
Operating profit
-349.6%
£139,000 -£347,000
-
Wages
+9.9%
£9,768,000 £10,739,000
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