THE ROWAN LEARNING TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-11 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-03-28
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
+10.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£44M
+17% vs 2024
Employees
839
+25.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
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 | £37,379,000 | £44,980,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£201,000 | £7,991,000 | |
| Cash | £7,409,000 | £8,168,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £37,947,000 | £43,800,000 | |
| Net assets | £37,412,000 | £43,786,000 | |
| Equity | £37,412,000 | £43,786,000 | |
| Average employees | 667 | 839 | |
| Wages | £21,520,000 | £25,930,000 |
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 | -0.5% | 17.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 11.5% | 11.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.97x | 1.93x |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the board of trustees has a reasonable expectation that the academy 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
- “On 1 February 2025 the Prescot Primary School converted to academy trust status under the Academies Act 2010 and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to The Rowan Learning Trust from the Knowsley Local Authority for £nil consideration.”
- “Orrell Holgate Academy net assets acquired”
- “Orrell Lamberhead Academy net assets acquired”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, Elizabeth | Secretary | 2014-12-11 | — | — |
| BALL, Anthony Robert | Director | 2015-12-17 | Oct 1973 | British |
| CHADWICK, Melanie Jayne | Director | 2017-03-20 | Oct 1962 | British |
| DAVIES, Joanne Elizabeth | Director | 2023-01-01 | Jul 1976 | British |
| DAVIS, Samantha Lynsey | Director | 2023-01-01 | Nov 1979 | British |
| LEONARD, David Joseph | Director | 2012-09-06 | Jun 1964 | British |
| MCGLOWN, Andrew David | Director | 2019-11-12 | Aug 1970 | British |
| RIMMER, Philip David | Director | 2021-03-05 | Sep 1977 | British |
| ROBERTS, Carole Ann | Director | 2020-11-24 | Dec 1976 | British |
| WILSON, George Andrew | Director | 2012-03-28 | May 1957 | British |
| WILSON, Stuart George | Director | 2024-06-12 | Nov 1981 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BESWICK, Simon Lee | Director | 2020-03-10 | 2022-12-31 |
| FAIRHURST, Deborah | Director | 2012-09-06 | 2015-06-02 |
| FOSTER, Alison | Director | 2012-03-28 | 2024-03-28 |
| HALFORD, Royston William | Director | 2012-03-28 | 2019-02-19 |
| ISHERWOOD, Anne | Director | 2018-06-20 | 2019-01-21 |
| RILEY, Jane Margaret | Director | 2019-11-12 | 2020-03-06 |
| RIMMER, Philip | Director | 2015-07-03 | 2017-08-31 |
| STEWART, David Vincent | Director | 2020-09-28 | 2022-11-16 |
| WOODHOUSE, Margaret Mary Philomena | Director | 2015-07-03 | 2018-09-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 70 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-12-03 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-12-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-04-24 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-04-14 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-03 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-12-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-02 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-06-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-24 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-03-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-13 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-05-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
+20.3%
£37,379,000 £44,980,000
-
Cash
+10.2%
£7,409,000 £8,168,000
-
Net assets
+17%
£37,412,000 £43,786,000
-
Employees
+25.8%
667 839
-
Wages
+20.5%
£21,520,000 £25,930,000
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