WEST NORFOLK ACADEMIES TRUST
Get an alert when WEST NORFOLK ACADEMIES TRUST files next
Leroy will email you the moment a new filing lands at Companies House — one short note per filing, nothing else.
Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-21 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-07
Watchouts
Cash
£8M
-11.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£46M
-0.9% vs 2024
Employees
805
-3.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
-
3 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- WEST NORFOLK ACADEMIES TRUST 2013-12-23 → present
- SPRINGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST 2011-02-28 → 2013-12-23
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 | £175,136 | £171,809 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £1,306,049 | £1,181,232 | |
| Cash | £9,342,666 | £8,232,351 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £44,848,142 | £45,723,374 | |
| Net assets | £46,129,142 | £45,723,374 | |
| Equity | £46,129,142 | £45,723,374 | |
| Average employees | 831 | 805 | |
| Wages | £21,312,958 | £22,505,926 |
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 | 745.7% | 687.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.84x | 3.91x |
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
- Hayhow & Co
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the academy trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Significant events
- “From September 2025 The Trust will be supporting a local federation of Primary schools, strengthening its partnership with these feeder Primary schools.”
- “There were three Primary Ofsted Inspections during the Academic year, West Lynn Primary and Heacham Juniors both Maintained standards and Clenchwarton Primary school who received a full inspection achieving Outstanding in Personal Development and EYFS and Good in Leadership and Management, Quality of Education and Behaviour and Attitudes.”
- “The Academy have applied the asset ceiling adjustment to the figures and reduced the surplus to NIL.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, Timothy John | Director | 2023-07-10 | Apr 1967 | British |
| BALDWIN, Kevin Andrew | Director | 2014-06-01 | Jun 1964 | British |
| BALLMAN, Mark Harold | Director | 2019-03-07 | Sep 1957 | British |
| BLAND, Paul | Director | 2015-09-01 | Mar 1946 | British |
| HARRIS, Peter David | Director | 2014-10-10 | Feb 1940 | British |
| JOHNSON, Andrew Michael | Director | 2012-11-27 | Mar 1973 | British |
| KING, Pauline Anne | Director | 2020-05-06 | Aug 1960 | British |
| LIVESEY, Roger Henry | Director | 2012-09-18 | Dec 1947 | British |
| MIDDLETON-JONES, Jane Isobel | Director | 2025-04-02 | May 1973 | British |
| PULSFORD-HARRIS, Dorothy Ann | Director | 2024-11-11 | Nov 1944 | British |
| WOOD, Roger | Director | 2021-09-21 | Jul 1949 | British |
| YATES, Anthony Robert | Director | 2013-01-01 | Jan 1955 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLFLATT, Roger Keeble | Director | 2013-10-01 | 2021-09-08 |
| ARTERTON, Amanda Ann | Director | 2011-02-28 | 2024-08-31 |
| BAMBRIDGE, Lesley | Director | 2017-01-23 | 2019-11-30 |
| BRANNON, John Michael | Director | 2021-05-01 | 2021-05-19 |
| CORNWELL, Tracey Lorraine | Director | 2020-02-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| DAUBNEY, Nicholas John | Director | 2017-01-23 | 2023-05-29 |
| DICKSON, Richard Paul | Director | 2014-06-01 | 2016-11-01 |
| GLADMAN, Julie Deborah | Director | 2011-02-28 | 2013-11-26 |
| LIVESEY, Henry Roger | Director | 2011-02-28 | 2012-03-30 |
| LODGE, Robert Peter | Director | 2019-11-15 | 2026-03-07 |
| LUNNUN, Susan | Director | 2014-06-01 | 2021-05-14 |
| MORGAN, James Kenrick | Director | 2012-12-04 | 2014-05-31 |
| TAYLOR, Alan | Director | 2015-01-21 | 2016-11-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miss Janey Victoria Cooksley | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2026-03-25 | Active |
| Miss Janey Victoria Cooksley | Individual | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2025-11-11 | Ceased 2026-03-07 |
| Dr Corallie Lloyd | Individual | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2024-03-27 | Active |
| Mr John Michael Brannon | Individual | Appoints directors | 2021-05-21 | Ceased 2025-11-11 |
| Mrs Susan Lunnun | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2021-05-14 | Ceased 2022-08-31 |
| Ms Lesley Bambridge | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2020-02-01 | Ceased 2023-07-19 |
| Mrs Susan Lunnan | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-12-01 | Ceased 2022-08-31 |
| Mr Roger Henry Livesey | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-09-01 | Ceased 2023-03-01 |
| Mrs Amanda Ann Arterton | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-11-11 |
| Mr Henry Roger Livesey | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 93 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-30 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-03-26 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-03-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-18 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-02-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-11 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-11 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-11 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-11 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-11 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-31 | 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
- 0
- 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
-1.9%
£175,136 £171,809
-
Cash
-11.9%
£9,342,666 £8,232,351
-
Net assets
-0.9%
£46,129,142 £45,723,374
-
Employees
-3.1%
831 805
-
Wages
+5.6%
£21,312,958 £22,505,926
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