WOODRUSH HIGH SCHOOL AN ACADEMY FOR STUDENTS AGED 11-18 LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2025-07-05
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£936K
-37.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£14M
-2.9% vs 2023
Employees
147
-2.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
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Period ending 2024-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2025-07-05.
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Material uncertainty over going concern
Woodrush High School joined The Black Pear Trust on 1 September 2024. The Trust has become dormant after this date. For this reason, the Trust has prepared the financial statements on a basis other than going concern.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £708,876 | £598,868 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £598,805 | -£625,854 | |
| Cash | £1,508,873 | £936,439 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,276,146 | £14,474,587 | |
| Net assets | £14,563,546 | £14,139,692 | |
| Equity | £14,563,546 | £14,139,692 | |
| Average employees | 151 | 147 | |
| Wages | £4,214,022 | £4,447,346 |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 84.5% | -104.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 7.9% | 6.5% | |
| Current ratio | 3.27x | 1.86x |
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
- Bishop Fleming LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“Woodrush High School joined The Black Pear Trust on 1 September 2024. The Trust has become dormant after this date. For this reason, the Trust has prepared the financial statements on a basis other than going concern.”
Significant events
- “Ofsted Overall effectiveness Good April 2024”
- “Across 2023/24, the Trustees and Senior Leaders engaged in academy conversion and due diligence processes as part of a desire to transfer to The Black Pear (Multi-Academy) Trust. This process, including consultations with staff, professional associations and parents was concluded and provided the necessary approvals for Woodrush to join The Black Pear Trust on the 1 September 2024.”
- “Oversubscribed year on year for 180 student places (2017/18, 372, 2018/19, 396 and 2019/20, 474, 2020/21 460, 2021/22 460, 2022/23 418, 2023-24 369 (so far))”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
14 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMIELI, Patrick | Director | 2016-06-01 | Feb 1957 | British |
| BARBER, John James | Director | 2022-01-01 | Apr 1982 | British |
| BRAND, Stuart | Director | 2022-03-24 | Dec 1954 | British |
| DENARO, Geoff | Director | 2011-06-21 | Aug 1943 | British |
| DYER, Jill | Director | 2021-10-20 | May 1931 | British |
| FRANCIS, Jaine | Director | 2011-06-21 | Dec 1965 | British |
| HARRISON, Paul Francis | Director | 2023-03-02 | Feb 1959 | British |
| HUBBARD, Jonathan William Thornton | Director | 2023-03-02 | Apr 1979 | British |
| LAIGHT, Rob | Director | 2022-03-24 | Aug 1989 | British |
| PATEL, Priesh Shirishbhai | Director | 2023-03-02 | May 1972 | British |
| PITHIE, Fraser Douglas | Director | 2023-03-02 | Dec 1960 | British |
| SKELTON, Tom | Director | 2022-09-09 | Dec 1976 | British |
| STOKES, Loreal Michelle | Director | 2022-06-16 | Feb 1995 | British |
| ULLAH, Hanif | Director | 2023-03-20 | Apr 1966 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOLMONDELEY, Kay | Director | 2021-10-20 | 2022-08-31 |
| CHOLMONDELEY, Kay | Director | 2018-11-29 | 2021-09-30 |
| CROSTHWAITE, Steve | Director | 2021-03-18 | 2022-10-30 |
| DYER, Jill | Director | 2011-06-21 | 2021-08-31 |
| FELTON, John | Director | 2011-06-21 | 2019-07-19 |
| HOWLETT, John | Director | 2016-06-01 | 2018-02-23 |
| IQBAL, Karamat, Dr | Director | 2019-06-20 | 2020-06-22 |
| KING, Christopher Chapman | Director | 2011-06-21 | 2015-08-31 |
| LEE, Sarah | Director | 2017-01-06 | 2019-07-16 |
| LLOYD, Natasha | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| MACGREGOR, Ian | Director | 2011-06-21 | 2021-08-31 |
| POWER, Tania | Director | 2017-01-06 | 2021-08-31 |
| SAMBROOK, Christopher Richard | Director | 2011-06-21 | 2022-06-15 |
| SLATER, Colin | Director | 2019-06-20 | 2022-01-22 |
| STANLEY, David John | Director | 2021-03-18 | 2022-12-09 |
| TAYLOR, Ben | Director | 2018-05-17 | 2022-12-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 77 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-03-22 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-14 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2025-09-09 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2025-02-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-22 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-03-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-12-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
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Turnover
-15.5%
£708,876 £598,868
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Cash
-37.9%
£1,508,873 £936,439
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Net assets
-2.9%
£14,563,546 £14,139,692
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Employees
-2.6%
151 147
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Wages
+5.5%
£4,214,022 £4,447,346
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