GREAT HEIGHTS ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-23 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-09
Watchouts
Cash
£6M
+11.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£50M
+1.1% vs 2024
Employees
673
+14.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- GREAT HEIGHTS ACADEMY TRUST 2020-08-13 → present
- THE GREETLAND ACADEMY TRUST 2018-01-24 → 2020-08-13
- THE GREETLAND ACADEMY 2010-12-09 → 2018-01-24
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 | £48,687,775 | £39,114,661 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £15,991,759 | £709,858 | |
| Cash | £5,494,021 | £6,129,147 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £49,654,953 | £50,181,811 | |
| Net assets | £49,654,953 | £50,181,811 | |
| Equity | £49,654,953 | £50,181,811 | |
| Average employees | 590 | 673 | |
| Wages | £17,639,406 | £20,492,141 |
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 | 32.8% | 1.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 4.1% | 3.3% | |
| Current ratio | 3.33x | 4.63x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Simpson Wood Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the board of trustees has a reasonable expectation that the Academy Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, the board of trustees continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Nields Academy (1 April 2024) joining as a sponsor school”
- “Colne Valley High School: There were significant leadership changes during 2024-25 in order to stabilise the academy on joining GHAT. A new Executive Principal started in April 2025.”
- “Three Trustees resigned in July 2025 for personal reasons, one has been successfully replaced, one is awaiting approval from the Members (he will take up his position from December 2025) and we are recruiting for the third.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENNETT, Amanda Jane | Director | 2010-12-09 | Sep 1967 | British |
| MADDREN, Christopher James | Director | 2025-12-15 | Jun 1981 | British |
| MCCONNELL, Diane | Director | 2024-12-16 | Jul 1954 | British |
| MCMANUS, Mark | Director | 2024-09-01 | Jul 1970 | British |
| MIDGLEY, John Carlton | Director | 2017-12-19 | Apr 1945 | British |
| POWER, James Edward | Director | 2020-06-05 | Mar 1982 | British |
| PURDON, David | Director | 2024-09-01 | Jul 1955 | British |
| ROBINSON, Gillian | Director | 2025-12-15 | Feb 1955 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIRT, Angela, Doctor | Director | 2018-01-25 | 2023-12-07 |
| BRIERLEY, Stephen | Director | 2011-01-04 | 2017-11-24 |
| BROOKE, Emily Carissa Jade | Director | 2020-06-05 | 2023-12-31 |
| FRYER, Alexander James | Director | 2015-06-01 | 2024-02-15 |
| GRIFFITHS, John Alexander | Director | 2011-11-22 | 2018-12-04 |
| INWOOD, Kenneth | Director | 2019-01-17 | 2025-07-07 |
| JAFFAR, Mohammed Illiyas | Director | 2020-06-05 | 2026-04-09 |
| MIDGLEY, John Edward Berry | Director | 2019-01-17 | 2025-09-08 |
| NELLIS, Jacqueline Anne | Director | 2018-12-04 | 2024-10-22 |
| NEWTON, Peter Graham | Director | 2010-12-09 | 2019-03-27 |
| RAWSON, Amanda Michelle | Director | 2010-12-09 | 2011-11-22 |
| STONEMAN, Victoria | Director | 2024-09-01 | 2025-07-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 72 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 12
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 4
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
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Turnover
-19.7%
£48,687,775 £39,114,661
-
Cash
+11.6%
£5,494,021 £6,129,147
-
Net assets
+1.1%
£49,654,953 £50,181,811
-
Employees
+14.1%
590 673
-
Wages
+16.2%
£17,639,406 £20,492,141
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