UNITY SCHOOLS TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-09 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-26
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
+33.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£39M
-1.2% vs 2024
Employees
235
+3.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- UNITY SCHOOLS TRUST 2015-06-30 → present
- THE MAGNA CARTA SCHOOL 2011-07-04 → 2015-06-30
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 | £17,613,000 | £15,244,000 | |
| Operating profit | £3,247,000 | -£967,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £3,352,000 | -£837,000 | |
| Cash | £3,760,000 | £5,007,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £39,529,000 | £38,837,000 | |
| Net assets | £39,104,000 | £38,617,000 | |
| Equity | £39,104,000 | £38,617,000 | |
| Average employees | 227 | 235 | |
| Wages | £7,363,000 | £8,357,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 18.4% | -6.3% | |
| Net margin | 19.0% | -5.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.2% | -2.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 3.3% | 3.2% | |
| Current ratio | 8.41x | 5.83x | |
| Interest cover | 77.31x | -87.91x |
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
- James Cowper Kreston Audit
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees, including all Committees, 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.”
Significant events
- “Roll out of energy saving LED lighting, replacement of aging teaching laptops and desktops and the continuation of our overall capital programme with particular focus on BDB, with two large CIF capital works projects ongoing along with refurbishment of reception area, classrooms and offices.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 42 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRADY, Funmi | Director | 2024-07-12 | Jun 1976 | British |
| BROADBENT, Pamela Jane | Director | 2022-07-01 | Mar 1952 | British |
| DEL RIO, Michael Paul Juan | Director | 2021-12-13 | Jan 1973 | British |
| DORE, Niall Martin | Director | 2023-02-16 | May 1969 | Irish |
| HOWORTH, Christopher Paul | Director | 2015-11-01 | Apr 1965 | British |
| KENT, Robin Michael | Director | 2016-06-12 | Sep 1964 | British |
| MEDDELTON, Richard Harry | Director | 2022-07-01 | Jan 1962 | British |
| SOUL, Frances Joan | Director | 2022-07-01 | Nov 1958 | British |
Show 42 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| JENKINS, Angela Mary | Secretary | 2011-07-04 | 2017-05-17 |
| SIMMONS, Elizabeth | Secretary | 2017-05-17 | 2022-03-01 |
| ALLEN, Julie | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2015-10-31 |
| BATEMAN, Bill | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2013-10-11 |
| BURNS, John Andrew | Director | 2013-01-08 | 2015-10-31 |
| COCKRILL, Timothy, Dr | Director | 2015-11-01 | 2016-06-12 |
| CUFF, Martyn James | Director | 2021-02-01 | 2021-10-31 |
| EVANS, Katherine Margaret | Director | 2015-05-01 | 2015-10-31 |
| FEBRY, Jennifer Anne | Director | 2011-08-01 | 2020-08-31 |
| FIELDING-SMITH, Anne | Director | 2012-09-01 | 2015-06-22 |
| FREEMAN, Edward | Director | 2013-12-01 | 2015-10-31 |
| GREEN, Paul Allen | Director | 2016-05-05 | 2022-06-30 |
| GREENWAY, Hugh Richard | Director | 2021-02-01 | 2023-09-14 |
| GRIFFITHS, Jane | Director | 2011-12-08 | 2015-06-22 |
| HANSON, Jenny | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2013-08-01 |
| HARVEY, Emma Louise | Director | 2013-12-01 | 2015-10-31 |
| HENDERSON, Ian | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2016-03-15 |
| JEYASINGH, Devendran Pradeep | Director | 2013-12-01 | 2015-10-31 |
| JONES, Alan Michael | Director | 2011-12-08 | 2012-12-06 |
| KEERS, Ka-Yin | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2015-10-31 |
| KNIGHT, Leigh Annette | Director | 2011-08-01 | 2014-11-14 |
| LENG, Stephen | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2012-12-13 |
| MASON, Edward | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2013-07-15 |
| MCILROY, Jeremy Malise | Director | 2022-07-01 | 2025-07-08 |
| MCMICHAEL, Jessica | Director | 2018-04-18 | 2022-07-01 |
| METCALFE, Tina | Director | 2011-12-08 | 2015-10-31 |
| MEYER, Colin Paul | Director | 2011-07-04 | 2013-02-07 |
| PILLAI, Suresh | Director | 2017-08-01 | 2021-08-31 |
| REYNOLDS, Lyall | Director | 2014-11-17 | 2015-10-31 |
| RICHMOND, Jacqueline Sarah | Director | 2015-11-01 | 2018-07-23 |
| SHEPHARD, Stuart | Director | 2015-11-01 | 2018-06-30 |
| SLATER, Jeremy Peter Glascock | Director | 2018-05-01 | 2018-08-18 |
| SMITH, Raymond John | Director | 2013-12-16 | 2015-06-09 |
| SMITH, Timothy Nigel David | Director | 2011-07-04 | 2017-04-25 |
| STREET, Joshua Adam | Director | 2013-12-02 | 2015-06-22 |
| TELFORD, Steven | Director | 2015-05-01 | 2016-06-12 |
| WALES, David Benjamin | Director | 2016-06-13 | 2024-06-13 |
| WALKER, Clive Kenneth | Director | 2013-09-01 | 2015-10-31 |
| WALKER, Roy Edward | Director | 2011-08-01 | 2013-09-26 |
| WATKINS, David | Director | 2011-11-24 | 2015-10-31 |
| WATKINSON, Kim Patricia Mary | Director | 2013-01-14 | 2015-10-31 |
| WHITE, Philip John | Director | 2011-07-04 | 2018-10-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 138 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-09-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-08-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
-13.5%
£17,613,000 £15,244,000
-
Cash
+33.2%
£3,760,000 £5,007,000
-
Net assets
-1.2%
£39,104,000 £38,617,000
-
Employees
+3.5%
227 235
-
Operating profit
-129.8%
£3,247,000 -£967,000
-
Wages
+13.5%
£7,363,000 £8,357,000
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