SUMMIT LEARNING TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-31 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-17
Watchouts
Cash
£11M
+39.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£114M
+0.5% vs 2024
Employees
940
+1.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1M
-50% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- SUMMIT LEARNING TRUST 2018-11-22 → present
- NINESTILES ACADEMY TRUST LIMITED 2014-04-08 → 2018-11-22
- NINESTILES SCHOOL, AN ACADEMY 2010-08-17 → 2014-04-08
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 | £63,667,000 | £64,686,000 | |
| Operating profit | £2,119,000 | £1,059,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,119,000 | £1,059,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,119,000 | £1,059,000 | |
| Cash | £7,899,000 | £11,044,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £113,422,000 | £113,926,000 | |
| Net assets | £113,232,000 | £113,783,000 | |
| Equity | £113,232,000 | £113,783,000 | |
| Average employees | 928 | 940 | |
| Wages | £30,417,000 | £32,084,000 |
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 | 3.3% | 1.6% | |
| Net margin | 3.3% | 1.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.9% | 0.9% | |
| Current ratio | 3.28x | 4.29x |
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
“After consideration of the Trust's financial position, its financial plans, (including projected learner numbers), the demand for places and the broader environment, the Board of Directors has a reasonable expectation that the Trust has and will continue to have adequate resources to enable it to be a sustainable going concern in 2024/25 and for the foreseeable future. For this reason, the Trust continues to adopt the Going Concern principle in preparing its financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 36 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEARDSWORTH, Rebecca | Secretary | 2023-09-05 | — | — |
| BEAMISH, Richard John | Director | 2017-09-01 | Apr 1950 | British |
| CASE, Lucinda | Director | 2024-09-23 | May 1963 | British |
| CLEMENTS, Neal | Director | 2017-09-01 | Jun 1952 | British |
| COLLINS, Glen | Director | 2020-09-01 | Oct 1964 | British |
| CROWSTON, Karen | Director | 2010-08-17 | Sep 1962 | British |
| DOLAN, Jim | Director | 2024-09-22 | Apr 1972 | British |
| FATANIA, Tejal | Director | 2020-09-01 | Jun 1972 | British |
| GREEN, Vincent James | Director | 2022-09-01 | Dec 1974 | British |
| HICK, Caroline Anne | Director | 2021-07-01 | Aug 1958 | British |
| JOHAL, Sharon Kaur | Director | 2024-09-11 | Nov 1976 | British |
| PRITCHARD, Emma | Director | 2021-03-02 | Dec 1982 | British |
| SMITH, Stephen Paul | Director | 2024-09-23 | May 1976 | British |
Show 36 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARBER, Hilary Esther | Secretary | 2010-08-17 | 2017-10-05 |
| HUSSAIN, Rucksana | Secretary | 2017-10-05 | 2017-11-10 |
| PURCHASE, Kate | Secretary | 2019-12-17 | 2021-10-08 |
| QUINLAN, Louise Catherine | Secretary | 2022-04-25 | 2023-08-31 |
| ANWAR, Catherine Rachel | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2022-08-31 |
| ASHDOWN, Paul | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2017-03-31 |
| AZAM, Ateef | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2020-08-31 |
| BENNETT, Peter | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2015-09-30 |
| BENNETT, Peter | Director | 2010-08-17 | 2013-06-30 |
| BORGHESI, Alexandra | Director | 2021-07-01 | 2022-09-24 |
| BRIDGES, Jonathan | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2023-07-25 |
| BURNS, Thomasina Denise | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2015-04-26 |
| CARNELL, Ian | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| COLLIN, Martyn Christopher | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2017-08-31 |
| D'SOUZA, Hattie Amelia Petersen | Director | 2023-12-18 | 2024-09-12 |
| DENNIS-STEPHENS, Fiona Ann | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2021-07-12 |
| DEY, Vrigu Kirti | Director | 2013-09-01 | 2019-01-16 |
| FEAR, Robert James | Director | 2010-08-17 | 2017-11-24 |
| FERRANTE, Gaetano | Director | 2013-09-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| GRAHAM, Colin | Director | 2021-09-20 | 2025-08-18 |
| HANCOX, Louise | Director | 2020-09-01 | 2021-07-12 |
| HARTLE, Sian Margaret | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2016-04-30 |
| HUSSAIN, Kamran | Director | 2022-05-03 | 2023-06-12 |
| HUTT, Dexter Walter, Sir | Director | 2013-07-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| IQBAL, Karamat | Director | 2014-05-13 | 2017-08-31 |
| LEBREUILLY, Mary | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2020-08-31 |
| MOTTRAM, Marilyn Sylvia | Director | 2019-05-12 | 2021-07-21 |
| PRICE, Alan Philip | Director | 2017-10-01 | 2019-12-31 |
| PROVERBS, Nadeen | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2017-08-31 |
| QUINN, Christine Margaret | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2016-10-08 |
| SCOTT, Philip | Director | 2019-05-07 | 2020-12-14 |
| SMITH, Theresa | Director | 2014-05-13 | 2017-08-31 |
| STEVENS, Christopher | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2017-03-31 |
| UNARKAT, Shilpa | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2021-02-23 |
| WAGG, Penelope Anne | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2017-08-31 |
| WERRY, David Geoffrey | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2018-08-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ms Marilyn Sylvia Mottram | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2022-11-14 | Ceased 2025-08-28 |
| Dr Karen Louise Roberts | Individual | Appoints directors | 2020-09-29 | Ceased 2025-08-28 |
| Mr David Geoffrey Werry | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2019-05-07 | Active |
| Mr Alan Philip Price | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2017-09-01 | Ceased 2023-07-01 |
| Mr Ateef Azam | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2017-09-01 | Active |
| Sir Dexter Walter Hutt | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-08-17 | Ceased 2019-05-08 |
| Mr Robert James Fear | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-08-17 | Ceased 2017-11-24 |
| Mrs Karen Grace Crowston | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-08-17 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 145 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-28 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-08-28 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-08-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-23 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-12 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-11 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-11 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
+1.6%
£63,667,000 £64,686,000
-
Cash
+39.8%
£7,899,000 £11,044,000
-
Net assets
+0.5%
£113,232,000 £113,783,000
-
Employees
+1.3%
928 940
-
Operating profit
-50%
£2,119,000 £1,059,000
-
Profit before tax
-50%
£2,119,000 £1,059,000
-
Wages
+5.5%
£30,417,000 £32,084,000
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