SAPIENTIA EDUCATION TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-24 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£13M
+12.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£131M
+23.7% vs 2024
Employees
1,319
+14.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£26M
+602.3% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- SAPIENTIA EDUCATION TRUST 2016-03-01 → present
- WYMONDHAM COLLEGE ACADEMY TRUST 2010-12-10 → 2016-03-01
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 | £58,410,000 | £74,518,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£5,149,000 | £25,863,000 | |
| Net profit | -£5,149,000 | £25,863,000 | |
| Cash | £11,422,000 | £12,858,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £106,593,000 | £131,955,000 | |
| Net assets | £106,041,000 | £131,151,000 | |
| Equity | £106,041,000 | £131,151,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,150 | 1,319 | |
| Wages | £32,899,000 | £41,883,000 |
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 | -8.8% | 34.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.55x | 1.75x |
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
- Larking Gowen LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Sapientia Education Trust Trustees have 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
- SAPIENTIA EDUCATION TRUST · parent
- Sapientia Lettings Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “On 1st September 2024 Beccles High School, Felix Primary School and Ixworth High School joined the Trust from Saxmundham Education Limited.”
- “On 1 April 2025 Rosecroft Primary School and Attleborough Primary School converted to academy trust status under the Academies Act 2010 and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to Sapientia Education Trust from Norfolk County Council for £NIL consideration.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 23 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOORHOUSE, Robert William | Secretary | 2011-02-01 | — | British |
| BAKER, Ian David | Director | 2010-12-10 | Aug 1961 | British |
| DWYER, Jennifer Claire | Director | 2020-12-08 | Jun 1963 | British |
| HILL, Richard David | Director | 2011-12-13 | Aug 1963 | British |
| MARGAND, Roger Patrick | Director | 2018-01-22 | Jan 1972 | British |
| NORTH, Thomas Henry Ewen | Director | 2021-07-07 | Aug 1978 | British |
| ROUT, Peter Jonathan | Director | 2010-12-10 | Nov 1953 | British |
| SAINT, Caroline | Director | 2023-12-12 | Apr 1977 | British |
| SHEPPARD, Penelope | Director | 2020-02-13 | Jun 1969 | British |
| TAYLOR, Jonathan Stuart | Director | 2014-09-01 | Aug 1971 | British |
Show 23 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALSTON, Gavin Moffat | Director | 2011-12-13 | 2016-03-01 |
| ANTHONY, William Paul | Director | 2011-10-31 | 2015-10-31 |
| BAINES, Jill | Director | 2011-10-31 | 2015-10-31 |
| CORNELL, Louise | Director | 2022-09-01 | 2025-03-26 |
| CUSHION, Nigel Leslie | Director | 2014-09-01 | 2017-07-21 |
| DAVEY, Francis Norman | Director | 2010-12-10 | 2023-12-08 |
| DE BUNSEN, Alexandra, The Hon Mrs | Director | 2011-12-13 | 2016-03-01 |
| DINNEEN, Sandra Caroline | Director | 2014-09-01 | 2017-11-01 |
| JOHNSON, Nichola | Director | 2011-02-07 | 2014-06-13 |
| LAST, John, Professor | Director | 2018-01-22 | 2020-12-08 |
| LINGWOOD, Neil | Director | 2011-10-04 | 2015-12-15 |
| MOORHOUSE, Robert William | Director | 2016-03-01 | 2016-12-13 |
| NORTON, Philip Ross | Director | 2012-03-01 | 2021-02-11 |
| RALPHS, Diana Wynne | Director | 2011-12-13 | 2016-03-01 |
| RIGNEY, Seamus Patrick Oliver | Director | 2012-11-05 | 2016-03-01 |
| ROFFE, Melvyn Westley | Director | 2010-12-10 | 2014-08-01 |
| SCOTT, Kevin Edwin | Director | 2011-12-13 | 2015-12-15 |
| SOULE, Elizabeth Sally | Director | 2018-02-22 | 2019-12-09 |
| SYMINGTON, Jamie Laurence, Mr. | Director | 2011-05-17 | 2015-05-14 |
| THOMAS, Alison Mary | Director | 2014-09-01 | 2016-03-01 |
| UNDERWOOD OBE, Adrian Richard | Director | 2020-12-08 | 2023-08-04 |
| UNDERWOOD OBE, Adrian Richard | Director | 2011-12-13 | 2018-07-31 |
| WAYMAN, Lucy | Director | 2012-02-07 | 2019-12-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Diana Wynne Ralphs | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-12-18 |
| Mr Peter Jonathan Rout | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-12-18 |
| Viscountess Shelin Knollys | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-07-02 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 100 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-07-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-07-26 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-04-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-01-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-07-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-07-26 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-12-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
+27.6%
£58,410,000 £74,518,000
-
Cash
+12.6%
£11,422,000 £12,858,000
-
Net assets
+23.7%
£106,041,000 £131,151,000
-
Employees
+14.7%
1,150 1,319
-
Profit before tax
+602.3%
-£5,149,000 £25,863,000
-
Wages
+27.3%
£32,899,000 £41,883,000
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