SOUTH ESSEX ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-15 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+7.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£15M
-2.8% vs 2024
Employees
291
+2.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- SOUTH ESSEX ACADEMY TRUST 2014-10-07 → present
- WESTWOOD ACADEMY 2011-06-24 → 2014-10-07
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 | £10,555,457 | £10,988,960 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £203,600 | -£227,253 | |
| Cash | £1,430,297 | £1,534,437 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,153,365 | £14,723,937 | |
| Net assets | £15,141,339 | £14,716,086 | |
| Equity | £15,141,339 | £14,716,086 | |
| Average employees | 285 | 291 | |
| Wages | £6,410,251 | £6,917,426 |
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 | 1.9% | -2.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 3.8% | 4.5% | |
| Current ratio | 3.13x | 2.74x |
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
- Haslers Chartered Accountants
- 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.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 34 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STALHAM, Catherine | Secretary | 2025-06-25 | — | — |
| CARRERAS, Vanessa | Director | 2025-03-26 | Aug 1977 | British |
| CEPPARULO, Emmalene | Director | 2025-03-26 | Sep 1974 | British |
| COLLINS, Nicola | Director | 2025-03-26 | Apr 1981 | British |
| HILLS, Adam | Director | 2025-02-12 | Feb 1986 | British |
| JONES, Christopher Michael | Director | 2018-11-05 | Jul 1963 | British |
| MARTIN, Karla | Director | 2024-01-08 | Jan 1977 | British |
| MULCAHY, Julie | Director | 2020-07-13 | Jan 1967 | British |
| NASH, Josh | Director | 2024-12-18 | Sep 1998 | British |
| QUORN, Terri Joanne | Director | 2023-12-13 | Jul 1988 | British |
| TYLER, Oliver James | Director | 2024-12-18 | Oct 1994 | British |
Show 34 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARRATT, Catherine | Secretary | 2020-12-05 | 2024-12-09 |
| LITTLEJOHN, Sharon Lesley, Ms. | Secretary | 2018-12-10 | 2020-11-20 |
| NORBURY, Helen Giles | Secretary | 2016-03-10 | 2018-12-10 |
| SIMSON, Stacey Ann | Secretary | 2014-10-24 | 2016-03-10 |
| WORROW, Carole Lynn | Secretary | 2011-09-12 | 2014-10-24 |
| ARCHER, John Matthew | Director | 2013-02-11 | 2014-12-01 |
| BOOTHMAN, Tosca Elizabeth | Director | 2014-12-01 | 2020-11-25 |
| BRIGHTON, Thomas Robert, Mr. | Director | 2018-12-12 | 2019-06-05 |
| BURNSIDE, Catherine Sarah | Director | 2020-01-27 | 2023-07-12 |
| CARVER, Dominic James | Director | 2016-12-01 | 2024-07-26 |
| COLEMAN, Paul Ronald | Director | 2011-09-12 | 2012-07-02 |
| DENHAM, Julie Penelope | Director | 2018-01-24 | 2019-07-17 |
| GRITZMAN, Jeffrey Robin | Director | 2017-03-11 | 2018-03-12 |
| HACKLING, Lynn | Director | 2011-06-24 | 2014-12-01 |
| HARBROW, Simon Phillip | Director | 2011-06-24 | 2023-06-20 |
| HAYWARD, Simon James Frank | Director | 2021-03-18 | 2025-03-17 |
| HICKS, Maria Suzanne | Director | 2012-07-02 | 2014-12-01 |
| HUGHES, Valerie Anne | Director | 2011-09-12 | 2014-07-07 |
| MACLEAN, Nina Louise | Director | 2013-02-11 | 2014-12-01 |
| METCALF, Kerstie | Director | 2011-09-12 | 2012-01-16 |
| MOORE, Norman William John | Director | 2011-09-12 | 2014-07-07 |
| MURRAY, June | Director | 2024-04-04 | 2024-10-12 |
| REYNOLDS, Lloyd | Director | 2011-09-12 | 2012-07-02 |
| SANDELL, Diana Jane | Director | 2011-09-12 | 2013-02-11 |
| SIMMONDS, Michael John | Director | 2011-06-24 | 2020-11-20 |
| STALHAM, Catherine Anne | Director | 2023-06-20 | 2025-03-28 |
| STALHAM, Catherine Anne | Director | 2011-09-12 | 2014-12-01 |
| STONER, Darren | Director | 2023-07-26 | 2024-07-26 |
| STONER, Darren James | Director | 2011-09-12 | 2016-10-12 |
| VAN BLERK, Vanessa | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2019-11-20 |
| VAN BLERK, Vanessa Katie | Director | 2013-02-11 | 2014-12-01 |
| WARRINGTON, Emma Jane | Director | 2011-09-12 | 2014-12-01 |
| WIGGS, Crystal Louize | Director | 2016-03-21 | 2018-02-25 |
| WIGMORE, Emma Jane | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2016-09-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 127 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-01-05 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-01-05 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-09-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-05 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-01-05 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-25 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-06-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-09 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-07-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-08-31 vs 2024-08-31
-
Turnover
+4.1%
£10,555,457 £10,988,960
-
Cash
+7.3%
£1,430,297 £1,534,437
-
Net assets
-2.8%
£15,141,339 £14,716,086
-
Employees
+2.1%
285 291
-
Wages
+7.9%
£6,410,251 £6,917,426
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