THE ACTIVE LEARNING TRUST LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-20 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-06
Watchouts
Cash
£13M
+26.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£135M
-2% vs 2024
Employees
1,449
-5.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
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 | £70,258,000 | £73,506,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£21,728,000 | -£4,022,000 | |
| Cash | £10,573,000 | £13,341,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £139,477,000 | £134,978,000 | |
| Net assets | £137,693,000 | £134,924,000 | |
| Equity | £137,693,000 | £134,924,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,529 | 1,449 | |
| Wages | £38,086,000 | £42,064,000 |
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 | -30.9% | -5.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 3.9% | 4.5% | |
| Current ratio | 4.18x | 2.59x |
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
- Price Bailey LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trust Board 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.”
Group structure
- THE ACTIVE LEARNING TRUST LIMITED · parent
- Active Learning Trust LINC 100%
Significant events
- “On 1 September 2025 Ravensmere Infants school was re-located to the site on which the Albert Pye Primary school is based following a consultation.”
- “On 1 November 2025 Loddon Infants and Loddon Junior Schools converted to academies and joined the Active Learning Trust, which are the Trust's first schools in Norfolk.”
- “During the year the Trust moved to a new payroll provider, NEO People on 1 April 2025 which generated contract savings.”
- “The Trust suffered a cyber security attack in Summer 2025 that caused disruption to a number of schools and received support the RPA, the DFE organised insurance arrangement.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 34 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEECHER, Phil | Secretary | 2024-11-18 | — | — |
| CUTCHEY, Jacqueline | Director | 2014-10-14 | Jun 1950 | British |
| DEY, Indrajit | Director | 2025-03-13 | Jul 1970 | Indian |
| GARDNER, Melanie Jane | Director | 2025-03-13 | Oct 1971 | British |
| HEALD, Claire Louise | Director | 2023-07-01 | Sep 1978 | British |
| HOLZER, Lynsey Joanne | Director | 2023-01-01 | May 1975 | British |
| HUGHES, David Robert | Director | 2025-03-13 | May 1970 | British |
| KITTLE, Toni Marie | Director | 2023-07-01 | Jul 1978 | British |
Show 34 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| JARVIS, Karen | Secretary | 2014-07-01 | 2024-11-18 |
| PALLET, John Frank George | Secretary | 2012-01-09 | 2014-06-30 |
| ADAMS, Lesley Patricia | Director | 2012-04-20 | 2019-12-01 |
| BATESON, David John | Director | 2012-12-05 | 2022-02-10 |
| BESWICK, Jeremy | Director | 2013-09-23 | 2024-10-17 |
| BODDISON, Adam David, Dr | Director | 2017-10-12 | 2022-02-10 |
| BUSH, Clive Robert James | Director | 2012-01-09 | 2022-12-31 |
| CAPRON, Helen Clare | Director | 2016-07-15 | 2019-12-06 |
| CHAMBERLAIN, Stephen Martyn | Director | 2019-11-01 | 2022-05-31 |
| COLE, Miles Norman | Director | 2022-09-27 | 2024-01-30 |
| COLLIN, Martyn Christopher | Director | 2012-04-20 | 2013-02-27 |
| DABROWA, Peter Michael Geoffrey | Director | 2022-09-27 | 2024-01-02 |
| DANIELS, Victor Russell | Director | 2023-02-20 | 2023-12-31 |
| DEAKIN, Jeffrey John, Dr. | Director | 2012-04-20 | 2014-07-31 |
| DOOL, Robert Douglas | Director | 2016-07-15 | 2023-02-14 |
| HARGROVE, Frances Rhiannon | Director | 2023-04-19 | 2024-05-02 |
| HELY HUTCHINSON, Richard Gregory | Director | 2015-10-06 | 2022-02-10 |
| HILTON, David James | Director | 2012-04-20 | 2013-04-12 |
| IRWIN, John Henry | Director | 2025-03-13 | 2026-03-03 |
| KERR, Mark Andrew | Director | 2013-04-30 | 2021-02-11 |
| LLOYD, Marion | Director | 2012-12-05 | 2022-08-30 |
| MYERS, Shaheen Akhtar | Director | 2022-02-10 | 2023-02-17 |
| NGUYEN, Ngoc | Director | 2023-07-01 | 2024-01-03 |
| PEILE, Gary Patrick | Director | 2012-01-09 | 2019-02-02 |
| PURDY, Stephen Paul | Director | 2023-07-13 | 2026-01-07 |
| QUINN, Catherina | Director | 2021-02-11 | 2023-02-15 |
| ROWNEY, Gerard Martin | Director | 2012-09-12 | 2014-03-31 |
| SINGH, Amritpal | Director | 2021-07-08 | 2022-08-23 |
| STAITE, Simon Anthony | Director | 2015-10-06 | 2019-12-06 |
| STEEL, Stephen | Director | 2012-01-09 | 2014-03-31 |
| STICKLEY, Benjamin Joseph | Director | 2022-02-10 | 2024-09-09 |
| THETHI, Anmoal | Director | 2021-02-11 | 2021-07-08 |
| TOFT, Marilyn Anne | Director | 2012-04-20 | 2017-08-23 |
| WEAVER, Rosemary | Director | 2020-10-22 | 2023-02-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ms Claire Louise Heald | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2024-02-22 | Ceased 2024-12-02 |
| Mr Victor Russell Daniels | Individual | Voting 25–50%, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2023-03-31 | Ceased 2024-12-02 |
| Mrs Helen Capron | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2023-03-31 | Ceased 2024-12-02 |
| Mr Mark Kerr | Individual | Significant influence | 2023-03-31 | Ceased 2024-02-23 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 140 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-27 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2026-01-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-10 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-03-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-17 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-02-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-14 | AD04 | address | Move registers to registered office company with new address | |
| 2025-02-14 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-02-14 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-14 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-14 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-25 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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
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Turnover
+4.6%
£70,258,000 £73,506,000
-
Cash
+26.2%
£10,573,000 £13,341,000
-
Net assets
-2%
£137,693,000 £134,924,000
-
Employees
-5.2%
1,529 1,449
-
Wages
+10.4%
£38,086,000 £42,064,000
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