HARTISMERE FAMILY OF SCHOOLS
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-23 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-10.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£27M
-0.4% vs 2024
Employees
348
+0.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£74K
+106.6% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HARTISMERE FAMILY OF SCHOOLS 2015-12-03 → present
- HARTISMERE SCHOOL 2010-08-10 → 2015-12-03
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 | £20,077,357 | £22,535,157 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£1,132,581 | £74,265 | |
| Net profit | -£1,132,581 | £74,265 | |
| Cash | £3,485,750 | £3,113,745 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £26,823,852 | £26,726,117 | |
| Net assets | £26,823,852 | £26,726,117 | |
| Equity | £26,823,852 | £26,726,117 | |
| Average employees | 346 | 348 | |
| Wages | £10,913,350 | £11,985,746 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -5.6% | 0.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.53x | 1.65x |
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
- Lovewell Blake LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the 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.”
Significant events
- “During the period Ofsted inspections took place at Benjamin Britten School in January 2025 and Hartismere School in February 2025.”
- “The movement in the pension scheme at 31 August 2025 saw unusual significant growth for the fourth year running, with in year growth of £2,066,000.”
- “The Secretary of State has issued an Academy Order for Carlton Colville Primary School to join Hartismere Family of Schools on 1 January 2026.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBBAGE, Deborah Ann | Secretary | 2015-11-17 | — | — |
| ALDOUS, Christopher | Director | 2015-11-17 | Jan 1951 | British |
| MACDONALD, Cleeve Lee | Director | 2015-11-17 | Apr 1948 | Australian |
| MCATEAR, James, Dr | Director | 2010-08-10 | Sep 1965 | British |
| PETTY, Ray | Director | 2023-06-05 | Jul 1949 | British |
| RAVENHILL, Marion | Director | 2010-08-10 | Mar 1949 | Irish |
| ROCHE, Nicholas James | Director | 2025-11-01 | Apr 1950 | British |
| WOOD, Steven | Director | 2023-07-17 | Nov 1956 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCATEAR, James Doherty | Secretary | 2010-08-10 | 2015-11-17 |
| BAILEY, Barbara Alice | Director | 2011-01-01 | 2017-10-11 |
| BATTERSBY, John Edward | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2025-11-01 |
| BLAXILL, Carlton | Director | 2010-08-10 | 2010-12-31 |
| CAVE, Neil | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2017-10-11 |
| COLE, Gina Lachlan | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2016-09-30 |
| HOOTON, Simon Kenneth | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2023-07-17 |
| JONES, Claire Louise | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2017-10-11 |
| MICHELL, Sara Elizabeth | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2017-10-11 |
| MILLER, Richard | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2017-10-11 |
| MUSGRAVE-BROWN, Godfrey Christopher | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2017-10-11 |
| ODAMS, Helen Christina | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2017-10-11 |
| PORTWAY, Ian Michael | Director | 2015-11-17 | 2017-10-11 |
| ROCHE, Nicholas | Director | 2018-09-01 | 2023-07-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Mcatear | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 75 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-18 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-09-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-08-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-06-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
+12.2%
£20,077,357 £22,535,157
-
Cash
-10.7%
£3,485,750 £3,113,745
-
Net assets
-0.4%
£26,823,852 £26,726,117
-
Employees
+0.6%
346 348
-
Profit before tax
+106.6%
-£1,132,581 £74,265
-
Wages
+9.8%
£10,913,350 £11,985,746
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