WISE ACADEMIES
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-22 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-4.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£52M
+28.4% vs 2024
Employees
776
+15.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£11M
+1,668.7% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WISE ACADEMIES 2012-08-13 → present
- BEXHILL AND TOWN END ACADEMIES LIMITED 2011-02-08 → 2012-08-13
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 | £27,769,000 | £33,143,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£833,000 | £11,078,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£716,000 | £11,232,000 | |
| Net profit | -£716,000 | £11,232,000 | |
| Cash | £3,597,000 | £3,433,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £40,561,000 | £52,058,000 | |
| Net assets | £40,553,000 | £52,053,000 | |
| Equity | £40,553,000 | £52,053,000 | |
| Average employees | 671 | 776 | |
| Wages | £16,452,000 | £19,976,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -3.0% | 33.4% | |
| Net margin | -2.6% | 33.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -2.1% | 21.3% | |
| Current ratio | 2.06x | 2.25x | |
| Interest cover | -30.85x | 90.80x |
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
- RSM UK Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Board of Trustees 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.”
Significant events
- “The year started with three schools from the Durham region joining the Trust from 1 September 2024.”
- “Our Trust expansion programme includes the successful onboarding of two new schools, Bothal Primary School and Central Primary School, planned for January 2026.”
- “The Trust successfully completed an application for the ROSPA Health and Safety Award 2025 achieving the Gold level award in June 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, John Gary | Secretary | 2015-09-01 | — | — |
| CARR, Zoe | Director | 2012-07-17 | Jul 1973 | British |
| COLLINS, Christine | Director | 2016-12-08 | Feb 1956 | British |
| CRAIK, Gemma Louise | Director | 2026-03-18 | Oct 1985 | British |
| DOYLE, Louise Carolyn | Director | 2026-03-12 | Jul 1973 | British |
| GRIMES, Eileen | Director | 2024-09-01 | May 1962 | British |
| PEARSON, David | Director | 2017-09-01 | May 1956 | British |
| STEPHENSON, Margaret Elise Wright | Director | 2011-02-08 | Oct 1953 | British |
| SYMONDS, Robert | Director | 2012-10-08 | Nov 1973 | British |
| VOKES, Nicola Sara | Director | 2012-11-20 | May 1966 | British |
| WARD, Roger Michael | Director | 2019-02-14 | Nov 1973 | British |
| WOOD, John Gibbon | Director | 2011-02-08 | Jun 1944 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLENNELL, Jeanette | Director | 2012-10-15 | 2014-08-17 |
| DAVIES, Glen | Director | 2012-06-18 | 2015-01-25 |
| ELSTOB, Stephen | Director | 2011-11-09 | 2013-10-10 |
| FOUNTAIN, Natalie | Director | 2013-12-16 | 2018-08-31 |
| HALL, Louise | Director | 2024-09-01 | 2025-12-17 |
| HODGSON, Evonne Jean | Director | 2012-06-18 | 2014-04-23 |
| HUMBLE, Ashley | Director | 2012-06-18 | 2015-01-25 |
| RICHARDSON, Helen Linda | Director | 2012-10-11 | 2014-04-25 |
| SMITH, Paul James | Director | 2014-12-09 | 2026-01-15 |
| SOUTHERN, Julie | Director | 2012-09-17 | 2014-07-18 |
| SYMONDS, Robert | Director | 2011-02-08 | 2017-08-31 |
| WEISS, Donna Marie | Director | 2012-06-18 | 2015-01-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 88 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-09-23 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-09-23 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-08-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-23 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-23 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-09-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-02-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-02-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-02-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
+19.4%
£27,769,000 £33,143,000
-
Cash
-4.6%
£3,597,000 £3,433,000
-
Net assets
+28.4%
£40,553,000 £52,053,000
-
Employees
+15.6%
671 776
-
Operating profit
+1,429.9%
-£833,000 £11,078,000
-
Profit before tax
+1,668.7%
-£716,000 £11,232,000
-
Wages
+21.4%
£16,452,000 £19,976,000
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