SHELDON SCHOOL

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  7 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Bishop Fleming Audit Limited

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, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Group's or the parent Academy's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. SHELDON SCHOOL · parent
   1. Sheldon School Trading Limited 100%

Significant events

• “Financial - the Academy continues to rely on Government funding through the DfE. In the year ended 31 August 2025, over 94% of the Academy's incoming resources were ultimately Government funded and whilst this level is expected to continue, there is no assurance that Government or Local Government policy or practice will remain the same or that public funding will continue at the same levels or on the same terms.”
• “IT Ransomware attacks - The Academy commissioned an internal audit on the safety and security of the IT serving the school in 22/23 following review that an IT ransomware attack is highly likely to be attempted. Actions arising from this review were implemented through the year alongside a separate disaster recovery plan is in place to mitigate the loss to business continuity and to reduce the risk of successful attack taking place.”
• “Discussed the prospects for adopting more carbon neutral technology when replacing school boilers that had failed and agreed to the leasing of the Sheldon roof for the purpose of installing solar panels. Generation of electricity from these panels now offsets Sheldon's energy usage.”
• “Reviewed reports in relation to our IT resilience and invested in further measures to secure our network from cyber-attack.”
• “Reviewed our major contracts and re-tendered Sheldon's School's cleaning contract. Trustees were part of the panel which oversaw the bids and selected the new contractors.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

16

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

7

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +3%

  £12,351,211 → £12,715,578

• Cash

  +23.9%

  £1,952,730 → £2,418,581

• Net assets

  +1.8%

  £22,467,090 → £22,861,571

• Employees

  -4.7%

  215 → 205

• Wages

  +2.1%

  £6,407,658 → £6,542,779

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