THE CRYPT SCHOOL
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-25 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-11
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
-9.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£20M
-0.9% vs 2024
Employees
99
0% 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.
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 | £7,065,057 | £7,599,504 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £68,034 | -£102,064 | |
| Cash | £1,493,519 | £1,351,860 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £20,091,115 | £19,916,051 | |
| Net assets | £20,091,115 | £19,916,051 | |
| Equity | £20,091,115 | £19,916,051 | |
| Average employees | 99 | 99 | |
| Wages | £4,255,683 | £4,469,179 |
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 | 1.0% | -1.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 3.5% | 4.4% | |
| Current ratio | 3.15x | 2.09x |
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
- Hazlewoods LLP
- 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 accounts.”
Group structure
- THE CRYPT SCHOOL · parent
- The Anthony Iles Endowment
Significant events
- “The change to a fully coeducational school has now been successfully completed and therefore this main strategic objective has been achieved.”
- “Improvements were carried out over the summer of 2025 to update the sixth form centre, create a new classroom, relocate some departments to create a better layout, create an an office and training space for the ECT/trainee programme, a new space for the SEND team and for the performing art teachers.”
- “Plans for the forthcoming academic year include the renovation and updating of the Dining Hall, the renovation of an older corridor and stairwells, electrical and fire updates (via a CIFbid), redevelopment of an old DT room, and a Selix project to replace the boiler to the sixth form centre and the entire roof as a carbon funded project.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 34 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HITCHINGS, Joanne Claire | Secretary | 2011-01-11 | — | — |
| ASPDEN, Suzanne, Professor | Director | 2023-09-06 | Aug 1968 | British |
| BRADBURN, Sheila Ann | Director | 2022-09-21 | Dec 1954 | British |
| BURCHELL, Ruth | Director | 2025-12-01 | Oct 1974 | British |
| DYER, Nicholas Charles | Director | 2015-04-01 | May 1969 | British |
| GOGA, Ahmed | Director | 2020-09-14 | Sep 1972 | British |
| HILL, Lee Stanley | Director | 2021-01-11 | Feb 1978 | British |
| MACLEOD, Sonia Alice, Dr | Director | 2023-09-06 | Jun 1978 | British |
| OWATEMI, Dare Samuel | Director | 2025-01-09 | May 1982 | British |
| POLLARD, Alison Lynsey | Director | 2025-06-02 | Jan 1979 | British |
| RAY, Amit | Director | 2023-09-06 | Dec 1974 | British |
Show 34 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKER, Richard | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2012-07-13 |
| BARRETT, Katherine Anne | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2014-08-31 |
| BIRD, Jeremy | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2017-07-03 |
| BIRKETT, Andrew | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2012-07-13 |
| BLADE, Robert | Director | 2015-10-12 | 2016-02-03 |
| BOOBYER, Emma | Director | 2018-03-22 | 2020-07-10 |
| BORLEY, Alison Margaret | Director | 2015-04-01 | 2021-07-15 |
| BURDETT, Patricia | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2015-03-31 |
| CAMPBELL, Ann Maree | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2013-01-28 |
| CHAD-DANIELS, Clare | Director | 2012-11-05 | 2016-07-12 |
| COATES, John Desmond | Director | 2016-03-23 | 2017-09-04 |
| CRELLIN, Virginia Madeleine | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2025-07-07 |
| DAVIES, Colin Ronald | Director | 2023-04-12 | 2024-04-17 |
| EVANS, Michael John | Director | 2013-10-07 | 2016-07-12 |
| FISH, Raymund Hubert | Director | 2023-04-12 | 2025-06-17 |
| GREEN, Dylan Brian | Director | 2015-04-01 | 2023-02-13 |
| HALL, David | Director | 2015-07-06 | 2018-10-17 |
| HANDLEY, Jonathan | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2023-10-05 |
| HOLLYWOOD, Ciaran | Director | 2019-03-14 | 2025-09-07 |
| HORSEY, John | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2014-09-30 |
| JAMES, Richard Daniel | Director | 2011-01-11 | 2024-07-12 |
| JONES, Rachael Jane | Director | 2016-12-05 | 2022-12-31 |
| KINGSTON, Robert | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2011-07-18 |
| POWLES, Thomas James Joseph | Director | 2020-09-14 | 2023-10-15 |
| PREECE, David Liam | Director | 2013-10-07 | 2018-10-09 |
| PRICE, James Edward | Director | 2015-10-12 | 2017-12-04 |
| RODRIGUEZ-TORRALBA, Daniela Cristina | Director | 2025-06-02 | 2025-06-16 |
| SMITH, Jason | Director | 2016-12-05 | 2020-01-25 |
| STANDEN, Jonathan Paul | Director | 2011-01-11 | 2015-03-31 |
| STANLAKE, Philip Thomas | Director | 2022-09-05 | 2023-08-31 |
| STEVENS, Grant Edward | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2017-05-08 |
| TAYLOR, Gordon | Director | 2011-04-04 | 2015-03-31 |
| WEBSTER, Glenn | Director | 2011-01-11 | 2019-11-09 |
| WHITMAN, Birgit | Director | 2013-10-07 | 2021-07-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 110 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-01-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-01-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-01-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- 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
+7.6%
£7,065,057 £7,599,504
-
Cash
-9.5%
£1,493,519 £1,351,860
-
Net assets
-0.9%
£20,091,115 £19,916,051
-
Employees
0%
99 99
-
Wages
+5%
£4,255,683 £4,469,179
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