SOUTH PENNINE ACADEMIES

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  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

1. SOUTH PENNINE ACADEMIES 2017-07-26 → present
2. MOOR END ACADEMIES TRUST 2012-08-02 → 2017-07-26
3. MOOR END ACADEMY TRUST 2011-04-11 → 2012-08-02

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

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Murray Smith LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, 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

• “During the 2024-2025 academic year, three primary academies and one secondary academy underwent Ofsted inspections: Hillside Primary Academy: graded "Good"; Beaumont Primary Academy: had an ungraded inspection and retained its "Good" rating; Woodlands Primary Academy: received an ungraded inspection but was judged "Good" in all areas; Park Lane Academy: judged the Quality of Education as "Inadequate" due to historical performance data that does not accurately reflect the school's current progress. 2025 attainment outcomes are the strongest in the school's history: Attainment 8 score: 40.7, an increase of 7 points from 2024.”
• “A key part of our work in 2024-25 has been to review and refresh our vision, values and strategic objectives with all our stakeholders. This work has resulted in a new vision for the Trust, a brand refresh to promote our new vision and values and strategy planning for the next five years to 2030. Our new strategic plan was launched in Autumn 2025.”

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

Filings

11

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +5.7%

  £44,121,000 → £46,642,000

• Cash

  -1.4%

  £7,454,000 → £7,352,000

• Net assets

  -1.4%

  £85,592,000 → £84,393,000

• Employees

  +1.7%

  808 → 822

• Wages

  +6.3%

  £23,623,000 → £25,101,000

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