TARKA LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
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Next accounts due
2027-01-01 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-01
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-26 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-12
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£43M
Equity attributable
Employees
563
Average over period
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-04-01
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Material uncertainty over going concern
Tarka Learning Partnership and Ventrus Multi Academy Trust merged on 1 April 2025 to create The Harbour Schools Partnership therefore the Trustees do not consider Tarka Learning Partnership to be a going concern and the financial statements for Tarka Learning Partnership have not been prepared on a going concern basis.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- TARKA LEARNING PARTNERSHIP 2018-02-06 → present
- NEWPORT COMMUNITY SCHOOL PRIMARY ACADEMY 2011-07-11 → 2018-02-06
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-01
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-04-01 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £24,275,313 | £14,277,861 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£414,209 | -£32,119 | |
| Cash | £3,819,258 | £3,122,750 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £43,578,909 | £43,221,293 | |
| Net assets | £43,170,557 | £43,007,438 | |
| Equity | £43,170,557 | £43,007,438 | |
| Average employees | 608 | 563 | |
| Wages | £14,724,116 | £8,683,884 |
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 | 2025-04-01 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -1.7% | -0.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 5.1% | 3.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.36x | 3.29x |
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
- Bishop Fleming Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“Tarka Learning Partnership and Ventrus Multi Academy Trust merged on 1 April 2025 to create The Harbour Schools Partnership therefore the Trustees do not consider Tarka Learning Partnership to be a going concern and the financial statements for Tarka Learning Partnership have not been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “On the 1 April 2025 Tarka Learning Partnership merged with Ventrus Multi Academy Trust to create a new Trust in Devon named The Harbour Schools Partnership.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 42 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OLIVER, Della | Secretary | 2019-05-01 | — | — |
| BLYTH, Sharon | Director | 2023-07-05 | Aug 1973 | British |
| BYRNE, Joanne | Director | 2018-09-01 | Aug 1974 | British |
| COCKELL, Graham John, Mr. | Director | 2018-09-01 | Jan 1957 | British |
| GIBSON, Sue | Director | 2023-02-22 | Mar 1953 | British |
| HAYWARD, Johnathon | Director | 2022-09-01 | Feb 1984 | British |
| LIGHT, Richard | Director | 2023-09-01 | Feb 1970 | British |
| PATEL, Jessica Marie | Director | 2022-09-01 | Jan 1980 | British |
| RICE, Christopher | Director | 2018-09-01 | Apr 1978 | British |
| SHADDICK, Lyn | Director | 2024-05-13 | Mar 1959 | British |
| SMALLEY, Charlotte Elizabeth | Director | 2021-06-09 | Jan 1964 | British |
| TOPE, Clare | Director | 2018-09-01 | Aug 1966 | British |
Show 42 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANN, Maureen | Secretary | 2011-07-11 | 2019-05-01 |
| ACTON, Lisa Ann | Director | 2013-12-19 | 2016-07-14 |
| BAKER, Stephanie Kim | Director | 2013-12-12 | 2018-08-31 |
| BALLARD, Nadine Julia | Director | 2016-01-21 | 2016-05-26 |
| BALMENT, Ryan William | Director | 2017-01-18 | 2018-08-31 |
| BAZLEY, Joanne | Director | 2011-08-22 | 2018-08-31 |
| BREWER, Daniel Scott | Director | 2013-05-14 | 2016-12-06 |
| CHAMBERS, Dawn | Director | 2011-10-11 | 2015-10-11 |
| CHARTERS, Luisa | Director | 2014-10-02 | 2015-04-23 |
| CLARKE, Caroline Rebecca | Director | 2012-11-29 | 2014-08-31 |
| COCKELL, Graham John, Mr. | Director | 2011-07-11 | 2015-04-23 |
| COCKELL, Graham John, Mr. | Director | 2011-07-11 | 2015-04-23 |
| CONNER-VAN-DER-HORST, Dawn | Director | 2011-09-22 | 2014-08-31 |
| COTTON, Andrew Roy | Director | 2018-09-01 | 2023-08-31 |
| COTTON, Andrew Roy | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2018-08-31 |
| CRESSWELL, David | Director | 2014-09-30 | 2018-08-31 |
| DAVIES, David Meredith | Director | 2012-07-12 | 2018-06-30 |
| GIBSON, Susan | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2018-08-31 |
| GIDDINGS, Anthony Paul | Director | 2019-11-27 | 2021-05-12 |
| GRATTON, Georgina Lyons | Director | 2017-11-30 | 2018-08-31 |
| HILL, Joanne Elaine | Director | 2017-11-30 | 2018-08-31 |
| HOOKWAY, Neil | Director | 2018-09-01 | 2022-08-31 |
| HUSBAND, Samantha Anne | Director | 2013-12-12 | 2017-01-31 |
| KENT, Alexis Anne | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2013-03-26 |
| MACREE, Katy Eliazbeth | Director | 2011-08-01 | 2016-02-01 |
| MACREE, Katy Elizabeth | Director | 2011-07-11 | 2013-03-26 |
| MITCHELL, Nicola | Director | 2011-09-23 | 2012-05-03 |
| MOCK, Marie Louise | Director | 2011-07-11 | 2018-08-31 |
| NEL, Victoria Clare | Director | 2012-11-29 | 2018-08-31 |
| O'DRISCOLL, Eliza Ann | Director | 2011-07-11 | 2013-08-31 |
| PETHICK, Adrian Mark | Director | 2011-07-11 | 2018-07-17 |
| PIERCE, Andrew Charles | Director | 2019-09-02 | 2021-05-12 |
| RANCE, Weyland | Director | 2022-09-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| REDDEN, Katie | Director | 2016-01-21 | 2018-08-31 |
| RICHARDS, Jane Louise | Director | 2013-01-17 | 2014-08-31 |
| ROGERS, Alison Fiona | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2012-07-12 |
| SEMMENS, Michelle | Director | 2017-02-20 | 2018-08-31 |
| SIMONS, Terry Kevin | Director | 2011-09-01 | 2014-08-31 |
| STEIN, Paula | Director | 2018-09-01 | 2022-08-31 |
| WILKINSON, Lisa | Director | 2011-07-11 | 2013-09-01 |
| WILLIAMS, Julian | Director | 2011-09-23 | 2012-09-26 |
| YORK, Louisa | Director | 2013-12-12 | 2018-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 130 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-27 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2025-07-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-06 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2023-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 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 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-04-01 vs 2024-08-31