KINGFISHER SCHOOLS TRUST

1. KINGFISHER SCHOOLS TRUST 2024-05-07 → present
2. KINGFISHER SCHOOLS TRUST LTD 2023-12-04 → 2024-05-07
3. WAVENEY VALLEY ACADEMIES TRUST 2017-03-04 → 2023-12-04
4. SIR JOHN LEMAN HIGH SCHOOL 2011-06-24 → 2017-03-04

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

Kreston Reeves Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trust Board has a reasonable expectation that the multi 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.”

Significant events

• “The Trust did not ensure complete financial oversight due to historical errors within the trust internal control accounts. The Trust did not prepare and submit monthly management accounts to the chair of trustees and the board trustees from September 2024 to December 2024.”
• “Roman Hill Primary School has experienced expenditure in excess of income over recent years. A restructure exercise took place in summer 2024, reducing spending in the medium term but also creating short term redundancy costs.”
• “Alde Valley Academy has been through a period of rapid growth in pupil numbers, exacerbated more recently by the closure of the nearest neighbour secondary school. Due to the lagged funding model, Alde Valley has had 10% of pupils on roll not recognised with in year funding in each of the last 3 years.”

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

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +10.1%

  £30,652,837 → £33,734,783

• Cash

  +11.2%

  £3,750,562 → £4,170,395

• Net assets

  -4.2%

  £48,633,004 → £46,600,197

• Employees

  -10.2%

  669 → 601

• Profit before tax

  -2.8%

  -£1,476,771 → -£1,517,807

• Wages

  +2.7%

  £17,963,591 → £18,449,797

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