THE SCHELWOOD TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2025-12-12
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
-34.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£57M
+2.7% vs 2024
Employees
204
+2.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£240K
-70.4% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2025-12-12.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE SCHELWOOD TRUST 2016-08-09 → present
- HERSCHEL GRAMMAR SCHOOL 2012-01-06 → 2016-08-09
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 | £16,437,000 | £17,437,000 | |
| Operating profit | £810,000 | £240,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £810,000 | £240,000 | |
| Net profit | £810,000 | £240,000 | |
| Cash | £2,419,000 | £1,594,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £57,124,000 | £57,386,000 | |
| Net assets | £55,886,000 | £57,369,000 | |
| Equity | £55,886,000 | £57,369,000 | |
| Average employees | 199 | 204 | |
| Wages | £7,985,000 | £8,608,000 |
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 | 4.9% | 1.4% | |
| Net margin | 4.9% | 1.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.4% | 0.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 4.3% | 1.6% | |
| Current ratio | 3.47x | 4.08x | |
| Interest cover | 2.74x | 0.75x |
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
- BKL Audit 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
- “Herschel Grammar School received an 'outstanding' Ofsted inspection in 2024, and Beechwood School was rated 'good' in April 2025.”
- “The Trust invested in developing the Sixth Form offer at Beechwood, including refurbishment, leading to an 88% increase in enrolment.”
- “A review of courses offered is being instigated with a view to consulting parents and pupils in spring 2026 to ensure AI-secure opportunities.”
- “New trustees Bindi Palmer, Howard Seymour, and Julie Siddiqi were welcomed, along with Wendy Barnett as a new member.”
- “Anthony Rodden, a member, passed away due to ill health.”
- “The increase in lease commitments relates to two new minibuses which have been leased for BWS.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VUCIC, Judith | Secretary | 2012-01-06 | — | — |
| INGRAM, Julian Andrew | Director | 2020-09-22 | Apr 1956 | British |
| REEKIE, Jonathan Mcnaughton | Director | 2016-10-01 | Jul 1940 | British |
| ROCKALL, Joanne | Director | 2016-10-01 | Apr 1967 | British |
| ROCKMAN, Jamie Robert Edward | Director | 2019-09-20 | Jan 1978 | British |
| ROWLEY, Paul Edmund | Director | 2016-10-01 | Jun 1946 | British |
| SHARIFF, Salima Begum | Director | 2018-01-15 | Sep 1975 | British |
| SIDDIQI, Julie Margaret | Director | 2024-09-01 | Oct 1971 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNETT, Wendy Susan | Director | 2017-10-10 | 2023-09-29 |
| BARNETT, Wendy Susan | Director | 2015-11-10 | 2016-09-30 |
| CLAYTON, John Thomas Norman | Director | 2012-01-06 | 2014-11-11 |
| HIGGINS, Kathleen Mary | Director | 2016-10-01 | 2021-08-31 |
| IYER, Krishnakanth, Mr. | Director | 2017-01-17 | 2023-01-04 |
| JOHN, Edward | Director | 2015-11-10 | 2016-09-30 |
| MERISON, Philip David John | Director | 2017-06-29 | 2018-06-06 |
| NELSON, Mark | Director | 2012-01-06 | 2015-11-10 |
| ROBERTSON, Robert Sinclair | Director | 2016-11-01 | 2022-06-22 |
| RUSSELL, Katherine | Director | 2023-03-07 | 2023-09-29 |
| SOOD, Abhay | Director | 2012-01-06 | 2015-11-10 |
| SPIRES, Anita Helen | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2021-09-01 |
| TOTTINGHAM, David | Director | 2012-01-06 | 2017-10-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 62 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-04-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-12-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-09-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-09-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-04-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-11-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 1
- 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 2025-08-31 vs 2024-08-31
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Turnover
+6.1%
£16,437,000 £17,437,000
-
Cash
-34.1%
£2,419,000 £1,594,000
-
Net assets
+2.7%
£55,886,000 £57,369,000
-
Employees
+2.5%
199 204
-
Operating profit
-70.4%
£810,000 £240,000
-
Profit before tax
-70.4%
£810,000 £240,000
-
Wages
+7.8%
£7,985,000 £8,608,000
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