CORNERSTONE ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-29 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+32.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£39M
+77.5% vs 2024
Employees
357
+60.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£17M
+18,527.2% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CORNERSTONE ACADEMY TRUST 2015-08-26 → present
- BROADCLYST PRIMARY ACADEMY TRUST 2010-08-09 → 2015-08-26
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 | £11,587,257 | £18,142,337 | |
| Operating profit | £109,101 | £17,137,662 | |
| Profit before tax | £91,993 | £17,135,702 | |
| Net profit | £91,993 | £17,135,702 | |
| Cash | £1,538,219 | £2,038,079 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £21,899,218 | £38,860,920 | |
| Net assets | £21,899,218 | £38,860,920 | |
| Equity | £21,899,218 | £38,860,920 | |
| Average employees | 222 | 357 | |
| Wages | £5,601,755 | £9,487,442 |
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 | 0.9% | 94.5% | |
| Net margin | 0.8% | 94.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.5% | 44.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 7.8% | 8.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.38x | 1.57x | |
| Interest cover | 6.32x | 773.53x |
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
- Bishop Fleming Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Trustees make this statement in respect of a period of at least one year from the date of the authorisation for issue of the financial statements and have concluded that the Academy Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and there are no material uncertainties about the Academy Trust's ability to continue a as going concern, thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Integration of three new schools into the Trust during the 2024/25 academic year.”
- “Westclyst Community Primary School maintained its Outstanding Ofsted judgement in December 2024/2025 inspections.”
- “Marpool Primary School's first year of sponsorship following an Inadequate Ofsted rating in June 2023, with significant resource targeted at improvement.”
- “Devon County Council upgraded the Fire Alarm and Emergency lighting in August 2024 for Marpool Primary School.”
- “Significant capital investment and refurbishment works undertaken at Marpool, Countess Wear, Clyst Heath, and Broadclyst schools.”
- “KS2 SATs results were down last year, but progress for children across the Trust is good.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 34 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAILEY, Michelle Amanda | Secretary | 2023-07-01 | — | — |
| BISHOP, Jonathan Paul | Director | 2010-08-09 | Jul 1972 | British |
| CHAPMAN, Samantha Jane | Director | 2017-10-03 | Dec 1966 | British |
| DYER, Ashley | Director | 2021-03-09 | Jul 1986 | English |
| DYSON, Kenneth Herbert | Director | 2010-08-27 | Jun 1946 | British |
| GOODALL, Jennifer Diane | Director | 2025-10-02 | Nov 1970 | British |
| GORDON, Myles | Director | 2014-12-09 | Aug 1975 | British |
| HARPER, Benjamin Matthew | Director | 2025-09-10 | Sep 1991 | British |
| RANDALL, Lorwyn Alexander Simeon | Director | 2025-10-02 | Sep 1982 | British |
| WADDINGHAM, John Tombleson | Director | 2015-03-24 | Aug 1970 | British |
Show 34 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BINNS, Rachael Freya | Secretary | 2012-07-17 | 2016-04-13 |
| FICE, Graham Clifford | Secretary | 2017-01-10 | 2017-03-07 |
| GREEN, Judith Anita | Secretary | 2010-08-09 | 2012-07-17 |
| LAYTON-HILL, Alison | Secretary | 2016-04-13 | 2017-01-10 |
| PARTRIDGE, Amy May | Secretary | 2017-09-12 | 2023-06-30 |
| BILLEN, Rachel Louise | Director | 2013-03-26 | 2025-05-07 |
| BLAND, Nicola June | Director | 2015-09-15 | 2019-01-15 |
| BRADLEY, Chris David | Director | 2012-09-25 | 2016-06-03 |
| BRINE, Richard James | Director | 2010-09-21 | 2014-09-09 |
| BROOKS, Richard Philip | Director | 2023-12-07 | 2025-07-16 |
| DAVIES, Paul Murray | Director | 2010-08-27 | 2013-10-01 |
| GALE, James Robert | Director | 2016-09-13 | 2018-10-09 |
| GESSEY, Shelby Louise | Director | 2024-10-02 | 2025-02-05 |
| HAMPSHIRE, Victoria Jane | Director | 2013-03-26 | 2015-07-22 |
| JORDAN, Will | Director | 2015-09-15 | 2019-01-15 |
| KNIGHT, Frances Kay | Director | 2010-08-27 | 2014-08-31 |
| LITVAK, Helen | Director | 2016-11-01 | 2019-01-15 |
| MAGUIRE, Timothy James | Director | 2010-08-27 | 2013-10-22 |
| MASSEY, Henry James | Director | 2010-08-27 | 2021-09-14 |
| MAXWELL, Esther | Director | 2011-01-18 | 2013-03-15 |
| MCBAIN, Hayley | Director | 2021-03-09 | 2022-09-15 |
| NARRAMORE, Mark | Director | 2014-12-09 | 2018-04-17 |
| NEALE, Maria Board | Director | 2010-08-27 | 2013-03-20 |
| NOAKES, Stewart David | Director | 2018-07-12 | 2021-09-14 |
| NORTHCOTT, Sarah Louise | Director | 2010-08-09 | 2013-03-10 |
| PEPPER, Christopher John | Director | 2010-09-21 | 2018-10-09 |
| PITTS, Matthew James Garvey | Director | 2015-02-10 | 2022-02-15 |
| RENFREE, Brett Samuel | Director | 2014-12-09 | 2019-04-23 |
| ROYLE, John Mark | Director | 2010-08-27 | 2011-09-08 |
| TAYLOR, Stephen John | Director | 2014-12-09 | 2022-09-15 |
| WHITELOCK, Michael Anthony | Director | 2010-08-09 | 2016-04-25 |
| WHITMARSH, Paul | Director | 2018-07-12 | 2022-07-20 |
| WILLIAMS, Bronwen Lily | Director | 2016-09-05 | 2023-09-06 |
| WRIGHT, Simon William | Director | 2013-10-22 | 2014-12-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 113 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-22 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-09-22 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
+56.6%
£11,587,257 £18,142,337
-
Cash
+32.5%
£1,538,219 £2,038,079
-
Net assets
+77.5%
£21,899,218 £38,860,920
-
Employees
+60.8%
222 357
-
Operating profit
+15,608.1%
£109,101 £17,137,662
-
Profit before tax
+18,527.2%
£91,993 £17,135,702
-
Wages
+69.4%
£5,601,755 £9,487,442
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