THE SPENCER ACADEMIES TRUST

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  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. THE SPENCER ACADEMIES TRUST 2012-03-26 → present
2. GEORGE SPENCER ACADEMY TRUST 2010-08-23 → 2012-03-26

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Forvis Mazars LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trust Board has a reasonable expectation that the Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. Further details regarding the adoption of the going concern basis can be found in the Statement of Accounting Policies”

Group structure

1. THE SPENCER ACADEMIES TRUST · parent
   1. Spencer Superstars 1% · to better support its children, young people and their carers to access extracurricular activities that they may excel in or have an interest in exploring.

Significant events

• “The Trust launched their three-year strategic plan in September 2022.”
• “The Trust has recognised £5,384,000 (2023/24: £8,446,000) in capital grants through the School Condition Allocation, Section 106 funding from the Local Authority and other Local Authority Capital Grants of which is restricted to be spent on fixed assets.”
• “Pension liabilities have decreased in the year, following changes to the actuary processed and pension assessments by the respective Local Authorities, to £nil (2024: £3,713,000) overall.”
• “On 1 March 2025, Bispham Junior School was converted to academy status under the Academies Act 2010 and became Bispham Spencer Academy.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +15%

  £139,841,000 → £160,837,000

• Cash

  +24.4%

  £9,279,000 → £11,546,000

• Net assets

  +3.5%

  £310,882,000 → £321,892,000

• Employees

  +1.3%

  2,775 → 2,812

• Wages

  +7%

  £74,332,000 → £79,518,000

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