THE HONEYCOMB EDUCATION TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-18 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£290K
+12.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£4M
+51.8% vs 2024
Employees
55
+14.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE HONEYCOMB EDUCATION TRUST 2024-12-05 → present
- MELLOR PRIMARY SCHOOL 2011-08-11 → 2024-12-05
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 | £1,242,000 | £1,978,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£49,000 | £1,408,000 | |
| Cash | £258,000 | £290,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,545,000 | £3,862,000 | |
| Net assets | £2,527,000 | £3,837,000 | |
| Equity | £2,527,000 | £3,837,000 | |
| Average employees | 48 | 55 | |
| Wages | £800,000 | £1,217,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -3.9% | 71.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 6.4% | 4.4% | |
| Current ratio | 2.10x | 2.22x |
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
- Murray Smith LLP
- 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.”
Significant events
- “This year the trust became a Multi Academy Trust as of 1 February 2025.”
- “The academy trust operates 2 primary academies in Stockport.”
- “During the year ended 31st August 2025, total expenditure of £2,206k (2024: £1,435k) was covered by recurrent grant funding from the DfE.”
- “On 1 February 2025, Bolshaw Primary School joined the trust and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to The Honeycomb Education Trust for £nil consideration.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 34 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WYBORN, Eleanor | Secretary | 2021-11-01 | — | — |
| BASON, Paul Charles | Director | 2023-09-01 | Mar 1963 | British |
| GREATOREX, Helen Catherine | Director | 2020-06-25 | Sep 1980 | British |
| HOULT, David | Director | 2019-07-25 | Apr 1948 | British |
| JOHNSON, David Owen | Director | 2020-06-25 | Dec 1947 | British |
| KYNASTON, Mark Duncan | Director | 2025-02-01 | Jan 1965 | British |
Show 34 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWKER, Anita Joy | Secretary | 2011-08-11 | 2021-10-31 |
| ALDRED, Kit | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2023-08-31 |
| ANSTY, Beverley | Director | 2020-06-25 | 2021-07-16 |
| ARMSTRONG, Paul Wilfred, Dr | Director | 2021-05-17 | 2025-01-28 |
| ASHTON, Leanne | Director | 2020-09-21 | 2024-09-20 |
| BARLEY, Michael Roy | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2025-01-31 |
| BIELECKI, Simon Jan | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| BOARDMAN, Caroline | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2018-08-31 |
| BOWKER, Anita Joy | Director | 2011-08-11 | 2021-10-31 |
| GOODFELLOW, Stephen Howard | Director | 2011-08-11 | 2012-08-31 |
| GWYTHER, Lynda Susan | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2023-08-31 |
| HADFIELD, Elizabeth | Director | 2018-07-02 | 2021-01-29 |
| HOWLING, Thomas David | Director | 2020-03-10 | 2025-01-31 |
| HUMPHREY-TAYLOR, Robert John | Director | 2025-02-01 | 2026-03-22 |
| HUMPHREY-TAYLOR, Robert John | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2023-08-30 |
| LONGWORTH, John Myles | Director | 2020-06-25 | 2025-01-31 |
| LOWE, Tim Reginald | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2020-03-04 |
| MAYER, Sara Lewis | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2013-08-31 |
| MCADAMS, Patrick | Director | 2019-03-08 | 2019-03-22 |
| MOORE, Stuart Alfred, Prof | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2019-02-28 |
| MYERS, David Edward | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2013-08-31 |
| NICHOLSON, James Emmerson | Director | 2011-08-11 | 2025-01-31 |
| PICOT, Stephen Keith | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2019-06-10 |
| POLLARD, Susan Amanda | Director | 2020-06-25 | 2025-01-31 |
| REDFORD, Paul | Director | 2013-09-01 | 2018-08-31 |
| ROBERTSON, Christopher | Director | 2018-07-02 | 2020-02-10 |
| SAMUEL, Lyndon John | Director | 2011-10-01 | 2018-12-31 |
| SANDERS, Alex, Rev | Director | 2018-04-18 | 2019-07-25 |
| SCOTT, Katherine Ann | Director | 2020-06-25 | 2024-06-26 |
| SHARP, Matthew Haydon | Director | 2019-03-08 | 2020-01-27 |
| SMITH, Claire | Director | 2014-01-30 | 2020-12-09 |
| SOKILL, Andrew | Director | 2011-08-11 | 2020-02-12 |
| TURNBULL, Carol Jeanette | Director | 2023-09-01 | 2025-02-01 |
| WINTERBOTTOM, Richard John | Director | 2023-09-01 | 2025-11-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr James Emmerson Nicholson | Individual | Significant influence | 2025-09-01 | Active |
| Mr John Myles Longworth | Individual | Appoints directors | 2020-06-25 | Active |
| Mrs Susan Amanda Pollard | Individual | Appoints directors | 2020-06-25 | Active |
| Mr Thomas David Howling | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2020-03-10 | Active |
| Mr David Hoult | Individual | Appoints directors | 2019-07-25 | Ceased 2020-06-25 |
| Rev Alex Sanders | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2018-04-18 | Ceased 2019-07-25 |
| Prof Stuart Alfred Moore | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2018-04-18 | Ceased 2019-02-28 |
| Mrs Lynda Susan Gwyther | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2018-04-18 | Active |
| Mr Michael Roy Barley | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2018-04-18 | Active |
| Mr Andrew Sokill | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-02-12 |
| Mr James Emmerson Nicholson | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-04-18 |
| Mrs Anita Joy Bowker | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-04-18 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 119 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-12-09 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-12-05 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2024-12-05 NE01 Change of name exemption
- 2024-12-05 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-09 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-12-05 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-12-05 | NE01 | change-of-name | Change of name exemption | |
| 2024-12-05 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2024-12-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 14
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
+59.3%
£1,242,000 £1,978,000
-
Cash
+12.4%
£258,000 £290,000
-
Net assets
+51.8%
£2,527,000 £3,837,000
-
Employees
+14.6%
48 55
-
Wages
+52.1%
£800,000 £1,217,000
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