ASPIRE LEARNING TRUST (WHITTLESEY)

1. ASPIRE LEARNING TRUST (WHITTLESEY) 2016-06-29 → present
2. SIR HARRY SMITH ACADEMY TRUST 2012-03-26 → 2016-06-29

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

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Duncan and Toplis Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees 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.”

Significant events

• “GCSE outcomes improved at Sir Harry Smith Community College.”
• “Students in the Sixth Form achieved positive destinations at the end of the summer term with one student gaining a place at the University of Oxford to read German and Linguistics.”
• “The college continued to expand with increasing student numbers.”
• “The History department organised a range of trips in the summer term to enhance the learning that was taking place in the classroom.”
• “The author and historian, Dr Kate Vigurs, visited the college in March 2025 to talk to students about her latest book on the heroines of the Special Operation Executive during the Second World War.”
• “New Road outcomes improved on the previous year with more children achieving the expected standard at the end of Year 6.”
• “The number of children achieving the Good Level of Development increased so that it was above the national average.”
• “Park Lane outcomes improved on the previous year with more children achieving the expected standard at the end of Year 6.”
• “A new Reception area playground was opened.”
• “Pupil toilets were refurbished at the end of the summer term.”

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

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +9.6%

  £12,233,741 → £13,404,361

• Cash

  -9.7%

  £2,083,177 → £1,881,499

• Net assets

  -0.8%

  £31,610,579 → £31,343,328

• Employees

  +1.6%

  254 → 258

• Operating profit

  -113.8%

  £7,186,049 → -£989,251

• Profit before tax

  -113.8%

  £7,186,049 → -£989,251

• Wages

  +8.3%

  £7,101,712 → £7,692,476

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