THE GORSE ACADEMIES TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-21 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-07
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
-12.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£185M
0% vs 2024
Employees
1,633
+5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE GORSE ACADEMIES TRUST 2012-09-06 → present
- MHS EDUCATION 2010-12-09 → 2012-09-06
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 | £122,891,000 | £102,261,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £30,396,000 | £741,000 | |
| Cash | £4,382,000 | £3,827,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £185,523,000 | £185,497,000 | |
| Net assets | £185,523,000 | £185,497,000 | |
| Equity | £185,523,000 | £185,497,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,555 | 1,633 | |
| Wages | £51,981,000 | £57,003,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 24.7% | 0.7% | |
| Current ratio | 2.56x | 2.72x |
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
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the trust board has a reasonable expectation that the academy 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.”
Significant events
- “In the Summer of 2024, we were notified by Simpson Miller Solicitors that they were acting for a group of parents at John Smeaton Academy who were in receipt of legal aid funding to bring a Judicial Review against the trust in respect of our Positive Discipline policy. ... cost the trust close to £500,000 in legal fees.”
- “In February 2025, Leeds Mathematics School had their first monitoring visit from Ofsted ... concluded that 'Significant Progress' had been made in all areas reviewed”
- “The Morley Academy was inspected in September 2024. ... judged The Morley Academy to be 'Outstanding' still in all four areas inspected.”
- “In August 2025 we celebrated the exceptional A level success of our first cohort, with almost a third of results at A*; more than three times the national average.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOYLAND, Ailsa Jayne | Secretary | 2023-01-03 | — | — |
| BANAHENE, Louise | Director | 2020-09-01 | Aug 1976 | British |
| BRIAN, Andrew | Director | 2025-01-17 | Apr 1979 | British |
| COCKROFT, Adam Robert | Director | 2025-02-26 | Nov 1970 | British |
| FOX, Andrew | Director | 2025-01-17 | Feb 1993 | British |
| FYFFE, Jonathan Neil | Director | 2026-04-14 | Apr 1973 | British |
| HALL, Steve | Director | 2019-01-15 | Feb 1960 | British |
| JARVIS, Richard | Director | 2020-09-01 | Oct 1976 | British |
| MCAVAN, Anne | Director | 2016-09-15 | Sep 1954 | British |
| SLEE, Susan Ada | Director | 2015-09-17 | Jan 1950 | British |
| STEPHENSON, Ryan | Director | 2020-09-01 | Apr 1989 | British |
| THOMAS-MARSHALL, Tracey | Director | 2020-09-01 | Nov 1966 | British |
| TOWNSLEY, John Arthur | Director | 2010-12-09 | Aug 1965 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHORE, Judith | Secretary | 2010-12-09 | 2022-12-31 |
| AVISON, Victoria Jane | Director | 2015-03-01 | 2015-12-15 |
| BOUCHER, Janice | Director | 2016-09-15 | 2022-01-25 |
| DEANE, Brian Christopher | Director | 2022-05-16 | 2024-04-25 |
| ELLIOTT, Michael Terrence | Director | 2010-12-09 | 2022-08-14 |
| FORBES, Paul | Director | 2020-09-01 | 2024-09-18 |
| FYFFE, Jon | Director | 2024-09-16 | 2026-01-16 |
| GORSE, Christopher Andrew, Professor | Director | 2016-09-15 | 2020-08-31 |
| GREAVES, Robert Donald | Director | 2012-03-27 | 2015-07-03 |
| GRUEN, Peter John, Councillor | Director | 2013-12-03 | 2021-07-23 |
| LATHAM, Tracy | Director | 2012-05-23 | 2020-08-31 |
| MICKLEFIELD, Andrew | Director | 2010-12-09 | 2016-11-29 |
| MORGAN, David Steven | Director | 2020-09-01 | 2023-12-28 |
| MORGAN, David Steven | Director | 2010-12-09 | 2017-07-31 |
| PIRIE, James | Director | 2022-11-26 | 2024-12-10 |
| RASAL, Stephen | Director | 2012-07-18 | 2014-09-17 |
| WEST, Richard | Director | 2015-05-21 | 2021-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 91 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charles court order extend with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-02-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-06 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-11-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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
-16.8%
£122,891,000 £102,261,000
-
Cash
-12.7%
£4,382,000 £3,827,000
-
Net assets
0%
£185,523,000 £185,497,000
-
Employees
+5%
1,555 1,633
-
Wages
+9.7%
£51,981,000 £57,003,000
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