EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-21 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-07
Watchouts
Cash
£8M
+0.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£69M
+31.5% vs 2024
Employees
578
+25.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£18M
+17,914.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP TRUST 2013-10-18 → present
- ALTERNATIVE PROVISION TRUST 2012-02-15 → 2013-10-18
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 | £31,242,399 | £41,695,558 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £98,581 | £17,759,095 | |
| Net profit | £98,581 | £17,759,095 | |
| Cash | £8,154,345 | £8,230,952 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £53,044,579 | £69,023,674 | |
| Net assets | £52,491,579 | £69,023,674 | |
| Equity | £52,491,579 | £69,023,674 | |
| Average employees | 461 | 578 | |
| Wages | £16,083,844 | £21,654,004 |
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 | 0.3% | 42.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 5.9% | 6.2% | |
| Current ratio | 3.51x | 3.06x |
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
- MHA
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Directors has a reasonable expectation that the Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason the Board of Directors continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the accounts.”
Significant events
- “The year 2024 to 2025 has been a period of growth for EPT with Carr Hill High School in Kirkham joining the Trust in September 2024 as a sponsored academy conversion and Parklee Primary School, Wigan joining on 1 April 2025 as our first primary school and voluntary converter.”
- “EPT achieved the Cyber Essentials Certificate of Assurance in December 2024 as a Trust with the Heights Blackburn and Eden School also achieving this.”
- “In October 2024, the Trust commissioned Eddisons to prepare a Heat Decarbonisation Plan for the Heights Blackburn, Eden, Atherton and Carr Hill, to look at the possibility installing air-sourced heat pumps at their shared sites. The applications for Heights Blackburn, Eden and Carr Hill were successful and work has started during the year to plan and design these works, which will begin in September 2025.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRIDSON, Wendy | Secretary | 2022-05-09 | — | — |
| BROWN, Ian Andrew | Director | 2014-08-01 | Jan 1966 | British |
| CARTHY, Glynnis Chantal | Director | 2026-04-13 | Mar 1966 | Irish |
| COCKER, Mark | Director | 2026-04-24 | Jun 1982 | British |
| HOLDEN, Jonathan Joseph | Director | 2019-11-01 | Aug 1980 | British |
| MULGREW, Eileen | Director | 2022-03-26 | May 1956 | British |
| PATEL, Lukman | Director | 2024-01-08 | Feb 1982 | British |
| SCHOLEY, Martin Stephen | Director | 2026-04-13 | Jan 1987 | British |
| WALLACE, Katie | Director | 2024-07-05 | Jun 1985 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELLIOTT, Emily | Secretary | 2020-06-16 | 2021-11-11 |
| ALLEN, Angela | Director | 2014-07-14 | 2021-12-10 |
| ARKWRIGHT, Adam James | Director | 2014-07-18 | 2015-09-01 |
| BURTON, Andrew Gavin | Director | 2014-07-14 | 2015-10-06 |
| CALLAGHAN, Desmond John | Director | 2012-02-15 | 2019-03-15 |
| CARTHY, Glynnis Chantal | Director | 2019-02-15 | 2021-10-02 |
| CARTLEDGE, Michael Christopher | Director | 2017-09-29 | 2023-07-07 |
| CATHERALL, Harry | Director | 2014-07-21 | 2019-04-30 |
| CHESTON, Michael Anthony | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| COWLEY, Geoffrey John | Director | 2021-01-07 | 2023-08-14 |
| GREEN, John Luke | Director | 2014-07-17 | 2022-07-08 |
| HUGHES, Julie Anne | Director | 2017-02-23 | 2019-01-11 |
| KENDRICK, Ian Michael | Director | 2018-09-03 | 2026-03-21 |
| PATEL, Hamid | Director | 2012-02-15 | 2012-02-15 |
| POSTHUMA DE BOER, Benjamin | Director | 2022-03-25 | 2026-01-22 |
| ROSCOE, Sharon | Director | 2012-02-15 | 2026-03-26 |
| SMITH, Pamela | Director | 2016-03-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| SOURBUTTS, Dale Niki | Director | 2019-03-15 | 2020-11-16 |
| STUART, Tracy Elizabeth | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2016-07-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Ian Andrew Brown | Individual | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2025-01-31 | Active |
| Mrs Julie Anne Hughes | Individual | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2019-01-08 | Active |
| Mrs Andrea Hepplestone | Individual | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2018-01-16 | Ceased 2025-02-01 |
| Mr Desmond John Callaghan | Individual | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2017-02-15 | Ceased 2019-03-15 |
| Education Improvement Partnership | Corporate entity | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2017-02-15 | Ceased 2018-01-16 |
| Mr Hamid Patel | Individual | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2017-02-15 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 102 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-04-29 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-04-29 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-04-29 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-01-17 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-09-28 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-09-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-04-29 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-04-29 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-04-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-03 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-31 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-17 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-28 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-09-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-07-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
+33.5%
£31,242,399 £41,695,558
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Cash
+0.9%
£8,154,345 £8,230,952
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Net assets
+31.5%
£52,491,579 £69,023,674
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Employees
+25.4%
461 578
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Profit before tax
+17,914.7%
£98,581 £17,759,095
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Wages
+34.6%
£16,083,844 £21,654,004
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