POPPY HILL CHURCH OF ENGLAND MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

1. POPPY HILL CHURCH OF ENGLAND MULTI ACADEMY TRUST 2021-04-13 → present
2. HENLOW CHURCH OF ENGLAND ACADEMY 2012-03-19 → 2021-04-13

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Auditor

Price Bailey LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Overall therefore, with measures taken to reduce costs the Trustees believe that it is correct to adopt the going concern basis and that the Trust can continue for a further 12 months from the date these accounts are approved and signed.”

Significant events

• “The Trust is implementing a series of cost saving measures and achieving higher pupil retention to address this situation.”
• “The context of an incomplete move of Central Bedfordshire Council to a two tier education system continues to bring complexities for our Trust. Decisions relating to the areas move to two tier and a coherent educational landscape are still pending and this creates risk.”
• “Henlow Academy was inspected by SIAMS in March 2025 and the full report reflects meaningfully on the school, drawing attention to both its ethos and its achievements.”
• “Henlow Academy was also inspected by Ofsted the following month - April 2025”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +17.8%

  £5,683,799 → £6,693,822

• Cash

  -22.2%

  £324,815 → £252,639

• Net assets

  -4.3%

  £9,759,877 → £9,339,673

• Employees

  +9.1%

  121 → 132

• Profit before tax

  +48.3%

  -£656,345 → -£339,204

• Wages

  +11.9%

  £3,415,160 → £3,821,917

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