JOHN COLET SCHOOL

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  9 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

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Hillier Hopkins LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the Academy has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “The Academic 2024-25 year was still affected by responses to COVID-19.”
• “The extensive refurbishment of the school buildings and improved student facilities has continued throughout this year; and as always these will be available for community hire.”
• “A new large outside canopy was installed for use from September 2024, with a further canopy installed in February 2025 to provided much needed external covered spaces for our students.”
• “The installation of new roofs and new boilers and heating distribution systems completed in November 2024 and July 2025 respectively have greatly improved the energy efficiency of our buildings, and the installation of 3 external toilet blocks in August 2025 provided much needed additional capacity.”
• “the headteacher Mr Ian Brierly has lead the School through retaining its Good Ofsted rating following inspection in October 2024.”
• “Over the past 12 months electrical improvement work has been undertaken, new roofs installed, new boilers and heating distribution installed across the school, the Mathematic block refurbished, two new covered seating areas installed, external cladding and some windows replaced, three external toilet blocks installed, and the upgrade of our IT infrastructure is underway.”
• “Capital Grants were secured for the second phase of the roof refurbishment, the replacement of the schools heating system and the replacement of end-of-life cladding, with all work completed by summer 2025.”

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

Filings

19

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

7

last 12 months

Officers resigned

9

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -1.5%

  £8,821,285 → £8,685,354

• Cash

  -27.9%

  £1,538,840 → £1,109,007

• Net assets

  -3.9%

  £15,067,892 → £14,481,887

• Employees

  -0.7%

  135 → 134

• Profit before tax

  -338.3%

  £318,448 → -£758,726

• Wages

  +6.8%

  £4,459,819 → £4,761,011

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