UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-08 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-25
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+38.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£44M
+0.3% vs 2024
Employees
560
+6.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£648K
-85.1% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN ACADEMY TRUST 2021-05-12 → present
- THE LINCOLNSHIRE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED 2014-07-18 → 2021-05-12
- UNIVERSITY ACADEMY HOLBEACH 2011-05-25 → 2014-07-18
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 | £30,999,567 | £29,746,819 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £4,339,838 | £647,958 | |
| Net profit | £4,339,838 | £647,958 | |
| Cash | £2,262,975 | £3,140,529 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £43,598,727 | £43,704,212 | |
| Net assets | £43,514,915 | £43,630,873 | |
| Equity | £43,514,915 | £43,630,873 | |
| Average employees | 527 | 560 | |
| Wages | £15,467,842 | £16,960,981 |
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 | 14.0% | 2.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 4.8% | 4.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.66x | 2.02x |
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
- Duncan & Toplis Audit Limited
- 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. Further details regarding the adoption of the going concern basis can be found in the accounting policies.”
Group structure
- UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN ACADEMY TRUST · parent
- University Academy Holbeach
- Holbeach Primary Academy
- Gosberton House Academy
- Holbeach Bank Academy
- University Academy Long Sutton
- Monkshouse Primary Academy
- Wrangle Primary Academy
Significant events
- “The academic year 2024/25 was a challenging year for University of Lincoln Academy Trust, due to a leadership change and with financial pressures it, and many schools nationally, were facing. The trust dealt with the challenges in a professional and successful manner and finished the year in a much stronger position and with a new CEO starting in September.”
- “In November 2024 trustees appointed Andy Breckon, a trustee, who was formerly the CEO to the post, on a temporary basis. Mr Breckon resigned his post as a trustee... held the post of acting CEO until 31 August 2025. The previous CEO resigned on 31 May 2025.”
- “The trust spent the year consolidating the five-year plan and embedding two new academies, Monkshouse Primary Academy (MPA) and Wrangle Primary Academy (WPA) into the trust.”
- “significant progress has been made, with the £6.4m new build at Gosberton House Academy (GHA) being completed and transferred in September 2025.”
- “The new secondary building at University Academy Long Sutton (UALS)... began work in September and has made rapid progress... The transfer to the new build takes place in the summer term of 2026.”
- “UAH has acquired additional land... to expand in 2026 to become a 9 form entry academy, plus sixth form. It is offering a 20 year old building... to facilitate that expansion.”
- “significant change to the composition of the trust board. Andy Breckon resigned... James Rylatt resigned... Steve Baragwanath CEO resigned... Prof Duncan French resigned... The trust has appointed Andrew Coleman... Iain Waite... and the new CEO Stuart Anderson as trustees.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 23 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, Stuart Scott | Director | 2025-09-01 | Feb 1980 | British |
| BACKHOUSE, Anita Mandy, Dr | Director | 2023-11-29 | Feb 1961 | British |
| BUNN, Lesley Elizabeth | Director | 2025-09-16 | Feb 1978 | British |
| COLEMAN, Andrew Peter | Director | 2025-07-02 | Oct 1974 | British |
| LIBBEY, Edward Thomas, Dr | Director | 2019-05-01 | Feb 1947 | British |
| LLOYD, Ann Eliza | Director | 2023-10-04 | Jun 1975 | British |
| NAYLOR, William James | Director | 2019-07-12 | Feb 1976 | British |
| WAITE, Iain Richard | Director | 2025-07-02 | Jan 1966 | British |
Show 23 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRAHAMS, Ian, Professor | Director | 2015-02-12 | 2020-02-06 |
| ALLISON, Michelle Bobbie | Director | 2019-11-01 | 2023-11-02 |
| ATHERTON, Andrew Michael | Director | 2011-05-25 | 2012-12-31 |
| BARAGWANATH, Steven | Director | 2023-01-01 | 2025-01-15 |
| BARAGWANATH, Steven | Director | 2014-08-01 | 2019-07-11 |
| BATTY, Keith James | Director | 2019-05-01 | 2023-04-30 |
| BOOR, Susan Paula | Director | 2014-08-01 | 2019-07-11 |
| BRAYBROOKS, Valerie Ann, Professor | Director | 2011-05-25 | 2023-08-31 |
| BRECKON, Andrew Malcolm | Director | 2024-02-28 | 2024-11-14 |
| BRECKON, Andrew Malcolm | Director | 2020-10-12 | 2023-01-01 |
| BRECKON, Andrew Malcolm | Director | 2014-08-01 | 2019-06-11 |
| DAVIDSON, John Scott, Professor | Director | 2012-10-02 | 2016-12-15 |
| FRENCH, Duncan Adrian, Professor | Director | 2020-03-27 | 2025-07-31 |
| HAMBLETT, Catherine Jayne | Director | 2014-08-01 | 2019-07-11 |
| HUNTER, Andrew, Professor | Director | 2020-12-03 | 2023-12-31 |
| PARRY, Jennifer Emma | Director | 2016-12-01 | 2019-05-01 |
| PENNEY, Christopher John | Director | 2011-05-25 | 2015-08-31 |
| ROBINSON, Andrew Paul | Director | 2017-08-17 | 2022-05-10 |
| RYLATT, James Jonathan Charles | Director | 2024-02-06 | 2024-11-26 |
| STANTON, Louise | Director | 2016-09-01 | 2019-07-11 |
| STUART, Mary Stewart, Professor | Director | 2012-10-02 | 2015-11-01 |
| WILKINSON, Toby Alexander Howard, Dr | Director | 2017-05-02 | 2020-12-03 |
| WORTH, Jennifer Mary | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2019-07-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 108 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-06-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-06-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-03-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- 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
-4%
£30,999,567 £29,746,819
-
Cash
+38.8%
£2,262,975 £3,140,529
-
Net assets
+0.3%
£43,514,915 £43,630,873
-
Employees
+6.3%
527 560
-
Profit before tax
-85.1%
£4,339,838 £647,958
-
Wages
+9.7%
£15,467,842 £16,960,981
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