WEST TOWN LANE ACADEMY
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-29 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-15
Watchouts
Cash
£714K
-5.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£6M
-1.5% vs 2023
Employees
71
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£106K
-5.1% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £3,460,840 | £3,689,295 | |
| Operating profit | -£98,605 | -£106,601 | |
| Profit before tax | -£101,242 | -£106,383 | |
| Net profit | -£101,242 | -£106,383 | |
| Cash | £757,324 | £713,831 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,514,605 | £6,359,222 | |
| Net assets | £6,001,605 | £5,910,222 | |
| Equity | £6,001,605 | £5,910,222 | |
| Average employees | 71 | 71 | |
| Wages | £2,116,804 | £2,310,315 |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.8% | -2.9% | |
| Net margin | -2.9% | -2.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -1.5% | -1.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 11.1% | 10.5% | |
| Current ratio | 3.66x | 3.41x | |
| Interest cover | -36.25x | -67.43x |
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
- Auditor
- Sumer AuditCo Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the governing body 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
- “There was a small deficit of £20K in 2023/24 (before depreciation and pension revaluation), This was due to additional costs to support SEN.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUCKLEY, Judith | Director | 2025-07-11 | Oct 1958 | British |
| CLEMENTS, Colin Gareth | Director | 2025-07-11 | Jun 1985 | British |
| DIXON, Louisa Katherine | Director | 2019-05-22 | Feb 1985 | British |
| DRISCOLL, Angela | Director | 2023-09-29 | Apr 1960 | British |
| HEMMING, Fatima Zulekha | Director | 2025-03-28 | Nov 1978 | British |
| NEHAMMER, Katy Alex | Director | 2024-07-12 | Jan 1978 | British |
| PROSSER, Neil | Director | 2022-06-07 | Sep 1982 | British |
| ROBBINS, Adrian Carl | Director | 2012-01-01 | Apr 1974 | British |
| WHIDDINGTON, Ellie | Director | 2023-09-29 | Jul 1989 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENTON, Mairi | Director | 2018-01-25 | 2021-02-11 |
| COYNE, Joe Benjamin | Director | 2024-07-12 | 2026-01-07 |
| CROFT, Marianne | Director | 2011-11-15 | 2025-11-21 |
| DARR, Tahir Hamid | Director | 2019-05-22 | 2020-02-12 |
| DUNCAN, Maxine Jayne | Director | 2014-04-29 | 2022-08-31 |
| ELDIN, Matthew | Director | 2022-03-25 | 2024-02-09 |
| EVANS, Caroline Adele | Director | 2022-04-04 | 2023-05-24 |
| HUGHES, Jeremy | Director | 2011-11-15 | 2019-10-31 |
| MCGAHERN, Sarah Janet | Director | 2012-10-23 | 2020-10-22 |
| MORGAN, Catherine | Director | 2020-12-11 | 2024-09-27 |
| MOSS, Nathan | Director | 2011-11-15 | 2012-10-05 |
| PITROP, Eugen Catalin | Director | 2025-02-07 | 2025-11-14 |
| RAYNER, Matthew Charles Bradley | Director | 2019-03-21 | 2023-03-23 |
| RHODES, Dan | Director | 2023-09-29 | 2025-08-31 |
| ROBERTS, Paul Anthony | Director | 2021-10-01 | 2022-04-28 |
| SALTER, Joanne Claire | Director | 2018-10-12 | 2021-11-18 |
| VEAL, Alan Edward | Director | 2012-10-23 | 2020-10-22 |
| WILSON, Elaine Marcia Kate, Dr | Director | 2023-07-20 | 2024-07-12 |
| YOUNG, Michelle | Director | 2023-05-19 | 2024-09-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Marianne Croft | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2025-07-04 | Active |
| Mr Alan Edward Veal | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2025-07-04 | Active |
| Mr Adrian Carl Robbins | Individual | Significant influence | 2020-09-18 | Active |
| Mr Jeremy Francis Hughes | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-05-01 | Ceased 2019-10-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 81 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-24 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-24 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 4
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
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Turnover
+6.6%
£3,460,840 £3,689,295
-
Cash
-5.7%
£757,324 £713,831
-
Net assets
-1.5%
£6,001,605 £5,910,222
-
Employees
0%
71 71
-
Operating profit
-8.1%
-£98,605 -£106,601
-
Profit before tax
-5.1%
-£101,242 -£106,383
-
Wages
+9.1%
£2,116,804 £2,310,315
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