ST BEES SCHOOL
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Next accounts due
2026-04-30
Overdue
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-19 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-05
Watchouts
Cash
£94K
+13.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£3M
+2.8% vs 2023
Employees
7
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£6K
+80.3% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Annual accounts overdue
Due 2026-04-30.
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The Directors believe that, whilst there are material uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt upon the company's ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in the future, the going concern presumption is nevertheless valid and they have not departed from this basis.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-07-31 | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £149,667 | £157,937 | |
| Operating profit | -£26,183 | -£37,767 | |
| Profit before tax | -£28,249 | -£5,572 | |
| Net profit | -£22,708 | £74,344 | |
| Cash | £82,641 | £93,802 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,653,655 | £2,722,506 | |
| Net assets | £2,643,479 | £2,717,823 | |
| Equity | £2,643,479 | £2,717,823 | |
| Average employees | 7 | 7 | |
| Wages | £74,324 | £68,349 |
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 | 2023-07-31 | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -17.5% | -23.9% | |
| Net margin | -15.2% | 47.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | -1.0% | -1.4% | |
| Current ratio | 0.09x | 0.09x | |
| Interest cover | -2.25x | -6.00x |
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
- Jason Spires, robinson+co, Chartered Accountants
- Audit opinion
- Unaudited (audit-exempt)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The Directors believe that, whilst there are material uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt upon the company's ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in the future, the going concern presumption is nevertheless valid and they have not departed from this basis.”
Group structure
- ST BEES SCHOOL · parent
- St Bees School Enterprises Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Full Circle Group completed their sixth academic year as managers of the school.”
- “The debt was assigned and transferred from The Old St Beghian Guarantee Trust Fund to OSB Nominee Limited on 1 July 2023.”
- “an adjustment of £42,500 was made during year ended 31 July 2024 to the realised gain/loss on the joint venture company investment”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 35 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KELLY, Tom | Secretary | 2015-10-01 | — | — |
| GEORGE, Mark David | Director | 2017-07-01 | May 1966 | British |
| KELLY, Thomas | Director | 2017-11-17 | Jan 1959 | British |
| LEVER, Peter Garth | Director | 2017-07-11 | Jun 1948 | British |
| LORD, Alastair David | Director | 2015-08-28 | Feb 1977 | British |
| ROBERTS, Mark Norman | Director | 2015-03-01 | Feb 1977 | United Kingdom |
| SIMPER, Adrian Mark, Dr | Director | 2016-03-18 | Sep 1966 | British |
| THORNLEY, David John, Dr | Director | 2024-11-10 | Aug 1962 | British |
Show 35 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERSKINE, Robert Noel | Secretary | 2015-04-01 | 2015-07-03 |
| GRENFELL-MARTEN, Nicholas James | Secretary | 2015-07-03 | 2015-10-18 |
| HALFPENNY, Nigel Arthur | Secretary | 2013-01-01 | 2015-03-31 |
| STOKES, Gordon Robert | Secretary | 2008-05-19 | 2012-12-31 |
| BEEBY, David George | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2011-07-18 |
| CALVIN, Sara Jane | Director | 2015-12-18 | 2024-08-10 |
| CREED, Anthony Lowry Nicholson, Doctor | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2011-03-03 |
| CROPPER, James Anthony, Sir | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2012-11-01 |
| DAVIES, Darryl William | Director | 2011-03-04 | 2015-04-19 |
| FOX, Anthony Phillip | Director | 2015-08-28 | 2015-10-03 |
| FOX, Anthony Phillip | Director | 2008-05-19 | 2010-10-16 |
| HALFPENNY, Nigel Arthur | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2011-01-30 |
| HART, David Michael, Sir | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2013-03-14 |
| HART, Martyn Peter Telford | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2015-08-28 |
| HENSMAN, Claire Theresa | Director | 2012-10-31 | 2016-01-15 |
| HOLMES, Edward Stanley | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2014-07-25 |
| ILLSLEY, Kathryn Margaret, Dr | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2015-02-03 |
| IRELAND, Peter Michael | Director | 2009-10-17 | 2014-07-27 |
| KELSO, Shaun | Director | 2015-08-28 | 2019-03-18 |
| LACEY, Robin Frederick | Director | 2017-07-01 | 2024-02-01 |
| LOWTHER, William | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2015-08-28 |
| MCKAY, Christine Taylor | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2015-04-26 |
| MILLER, Helen Claire | Director | 2017-07-01 | 2018-01-31 |
| MILLER, Robert | Director | 2015-12-18 | 2020-03-06 |
| NEWCOME, James William Scobie, Right Reverend | Director | 2009-07-31 | 2016-01-15 |
| RIGBY, Matthew Geoffrey | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2015-10-01 |
| ROBERTS, Mark Norman | Director | 2014-10-18 | 2016-05-25 |
| ROBERTS, William Mark | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2014-03-07 |
| ROCCA, Mark Chisholm | Director | 2015-12-18 | 2017-07-01 |
| SMITH, Elizabeth Marion, The Reverend Canon | Director | 2014-01-01 | 2015-08-31 |
| SMITH, Grahame Reginald | Director | 2008-05-19 | 2014-08-04 |
| STRONG, Harry | Director | 2016-01-08 | 2018-04-21 |
| WILLS, Anthony Joseph | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2015-10-01 |
| WILSON, Kate | Director | 2016-03-18 | 2017-11-17 |
| WOODS, Hubert Frank, Professor | Director | 2013-10-19 | 2015-10-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 124 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-07-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-07-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2020-07-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-07-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-03-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-12-05 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2019-07-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-05-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-04-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 1
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-07-31 vs 2023-07-31
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Turnover
+5.5%
£149,667 £157,937
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Cash
+13.5%
£82,641 £93,802
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Net assets
+2.8%
£2,643,479 £2,717,823
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Employees
0%
7 7
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Operating profit
-44.2%
-£26,183 -£37,767
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Profit before tax
+80.3%
-£28,249 -£5,572
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Wages
-8%
£74,324 £68,349
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