THE WENSUM TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-22 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+30.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£46M
+4.7% vs 2024
Employees
609
-5.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE WENSUM TRUST 2016-02-26 → present
- HELLESDON HIGH SCHOOL 2012-03-08 → 2016-02-26
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 | £29,430,750 | £31,040,708 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£1,383,946 | £2,221,611 | |
| Cash | £2,784,700 | £3,636,055 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £43,772,643 | £45,808,254 | |
| Net assets | £43,772,643 | £45,808,254 | |
| Equity | £43,772,643 | £45,808,254 | |
| Average employees | 643 | 609 | |
| Wages | £17,538,088 | £17,782,445 |
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 | -4.7% | 7.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.20x | 1.49x |
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
- Price Bailey LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Given the above, the Trust continues to adopt the going concern basis when preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- THE WENSUM TRUST · parent
- The Wensum Trust Pre-Schools 100%
Significant events
- “Kinsale Infant School Converted and joined the Trust on 1 July 2025.”
- “In August 2024, the Trust introduced a reserves policy which brought in the mechanism of reserves pooling.”
- “The Trust's financial position did actually not tip into a revenue deficit, and once a surplus for 2024-25 was certain, the plan's name was updated to Reserves and Financial Improvement Plan, and it has been redrafted with new actions for 2025-26.”
- “In 2024-25 this review resulted in a staffing reduction, with 5 members of staff sadly leaving employment with the Trust through a voluntary redundancy process on 31 August 2025, and other members of staff leaving the Trust not being replaced.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 35 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOESEN, Alice Eleanor | Secretary | 2024-03-08 | — | — |
| DALLAS, Carol Yvonne | Director | 2026-03-12 | Sep 1962 | British |
| EDWARDS, Mary Jane | Director | 2024-09-09 | Jul 1960 | British |
| GARDNER, Karen Denise | Director | 2024-09-09 | Nov 1953 | British |
| LEWIS, William John | Director | 2025-05-27 | Jan 1991 | British |
| PEARSON, Edwin Richard | Director | 2023-04-28 | May 1954 | British |
| RICHARDS, Mary Elizabeth | Director | 2012-04-01 | May 1960 | British |
| SMITH, John David | Director | 2016-04-12 | Apr 1958 | British |
| THROWER, Daniel | Director | 2016-04-12 | Feb 1969 | British |
| TIPPLE, Jason Richard | Director | 2018-05-08 | Jan 1971 | British |
Show 35 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORTIMER, Linda Christine | Secretary | 2012-03-08 | 2019-08-31 |
| REYNOLDS, Jennie | Secretary | 2019-09-01 | 2021-02-18 |
| WARNES, Susan | Secretary | 2021-10-19 | 2024-01-31 |
| ALDER, Anne- Louise, Rev. | Director | 2018-05-08 | 2022-11-08 |
| ARMSTRONG, David Phillip | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2015-09-02 |
| AVENELL, Kingsley | Director | 2013-07-08 | 2016-03-14 |
| AYLOTT, Neil | Director | 2016-04-12 | 2019-06-14 |
| BAKER, Sharon Louise | Director | 2013-10-08 | 2015-01-12 |
| BANKS, Michael | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2014-01-16 |
| BARNETT, Tania | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2012-06-20 |
| BATTY, Gerard Joseph | Director | 2012-03-08 | 2019-07-16 |
| BAXTER, Carolyn Anne | Director | 2016-04-12 | 2019-06-30 |
| BOWMAN, David Robert | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2016-03-14 |
| CAMPBELL, Lorraine Elizabeth | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2013-07-08 |
| CHAMBERS-PASTON, Kevin | Director | 2012-09-01 | 2013-11-11 |
| CRUSH, Antony John | Director | 2013-07-08 | 2016-03-14 |
| CULLING, Diane Tracey | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2012-07-09 |
| FISHER, Richard Keith | Director | 2014-04-01 | 2015-06-22 |
| FOCH-GATRELL, Sian Leanie | Director | 2012-11-01 | 2014-01-17 |
| GORMAN, Patrick William | Director | 2015-11-09 | 2025-02-11 |
| GRIFFITHS, Debra Ann | Director | 2012-03-08 | 2015-03-31 |
| LAMB, Gareth Edward | Director | 2016-04-12 | 2017-12-12 |
| MORGAN, Lisa | Director | 2022-04-19 | 2024-10-14 |
| MYNARD, Paul David | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2013-05-15 |
| PAYNE, Roger | Director | 2012-09-01 | 2015-09-18 |
| PEARSON, Edwin Richard | Director | 2016-06-20 | 2021-07-31 |
| PEARSON, Edwin Richard | Director | 2014-01-13 | 2016-01-26 |
| PIPER, Maria | Director | 2021-07-26 | 2021-10-11 |
| RIDDLE, David | Director | 2021-07-26 | 2025-12-09 |
| ROBERTS, Stephen | Director | 2014-12-09 | 2016-03-13 |
| SMITH, Sharon Louise | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2015-07-21 |
| STOREY, Joanna Louise | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2016-02-19 |
| SWORDS, Rosemary Catherine | Director | 2012-03-08 | 2013-07-24 |
| WARDALE, Helen | Director | 2012-04-01 | 2016-03-13 |
| WILLIAMSON, Zaliha | Director | 2019-08-01 | 2022-01-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 124 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-05 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-12-05 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-03-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-05 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-05 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-05-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-11 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-02-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-08 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-10 | AD04 | address | Move registers to registered office company with new address |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
+5.5%
£29,430,750 £31,040,708
-
Cash
+30.6%
£2,784,700 £3,636,055
-
Net assets
+4.7%
£43,772,643 £45,808,254
-
Employees
-5.3%
643 609
-
Wages
+1.4%
£17,538,088 £17,782,445
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