UNITY SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP

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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. UNITY SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP 2018-06-19 → present
2. SAMUEL WARD ACADEMY TRUST 2013-05-30 → 2018-06-19
3. SAMUEL WARD 2010-10-07 → 2013-05-30

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

Consolidated group

Auditor

Buzzacott Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Directors 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.”

Group structure

1. UNITY SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP · parent
   1. Unity Schools Partnership Education Ltd 100% · England and Wales · supply of the CUSP curriculum to schools outside of the Trust. In addition, from October 2024 the company has provided PVI nursery education for children aged 0-4 years old.

Significant events

• “In September 2024 the Trust acquired four primary schools in Norfolk from the Heart Education Trust... and had been preparing to open a new free school, Silfield Oak Primary Academy, in September 2025. The Trust has been successful in bidding to operate a new special school in Great Yarmouth...”
• “The Chief Executive Officer, Dr Tim Coulson, resigned from his post in the summer of 2025... The Trust Board appointed Mrs Sarah Garner as Interim CEO whilst they undertook a search for a substantive replacement. A new CEO will now join the Trust in the spring term, Dominic Norrish...”
• “During 2024/25 the Trust had six schools inspected by Ofsted: four primaries and two secondaries. All grades were Good and Outstanding.”

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

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

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

  +17.5%

  £117,607,000 → £138,161,000

• Cash

  -2.6%

  £8,746,000 → £8,517,000

• Net assets

  +2.7%

  £281,545,000 → £289,090,000

• Employees

  +11.6%

  2,417 → 2,697

• Profit before tax

  -37.8%

  £13,194,000 → £8,201,000

• Wages

  +15.8%

  £68,065,000 → £78,840,000

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