FOCUS ACADEMY TRUST (UK) LTD
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-30 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
-9.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£38M
+1.5% vs 2024
Employees
867
-3.3% 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 | £38,637,000 | £41,777,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£724,000 | £1,080,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£724,000 | £1,080,000 | |
| Cash | £4,789,000 | £4,349,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £37,164,000 | £37,700,000 | |
| Net assets | £37,160,000 | £37,700,000 | |
| Equity | £37,160,000 | £37,700,000 | |
| Average employees | 897 | 867 | |
| Wages | £22,485,000 | £23,062,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -1.9% | 2.6% | |
| Net margin | -1.9% | 2.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | -1.9% | 2.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 8.2% | 6.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.86x | 2.18x | |
| Interest cover | -0.43x | 0.60x |
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
- Murray Smith LLP
- 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
- “The academy trust operates fifteen primary academies in the North of England with 5,397 pupils (Reception to Year 6).”
- “Focus-Trust had five strategic priorities for 2024/25 known as the Focus-Trust 5 'F-T5'.”
- “In school Safeguarding Reviews led by a new external consultant took place this year.”
- “Eight schools had an Ofsted inspection during 2024-25.”
- “Attendance has improved by 1.5% across the whole Trust. Persistent Absence reduced by 5%.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 25 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAY, David Alistair | Secretary | 2025-10-10 | — | — |
| BAKER, Gary | Director | 2020-10-08 | Aug 1960 | British |
| CAIGER, Greg | Director | 2017-12-11 | Apr 1982 | British |
| DAVIES, Clive Anthony | Director | 2024-09-01 | Apr 1951 | British |
| HART, Emma | Director | 2018-12-13 | Dec 1979 | British |
| KHALID, Najma | Director | 2024-04-23 | Jul 1975 | British |
| LEE, Helen Margaret | Director | 2023-09-11 | Apr 1967 | British |
| POTTS, Glyn Richard | Director | 2023-07-14 | May 1979 | British |
| ROWLAND, Helen Claire | Director | 2015-03-02 | Feb 1968 | English |
| SMART, Laura | Director | 2025-05-23 | Jan 1969 | British |
| SPENCER, Paul Michael | Director | 2022-05-11 | Jun 1956 | English |
| WADDINGTON, Jill Suzanne | Director | 2023-12-05 | Dec 1970 | British |
Show 25 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIDZEY-CARN, Claire Elizabeth Jane | Secretary | 2024-09-01 | 2025-10-10 |
| DAVIES, Linda | Secretary | 2012-05-16 | 2017-02-10 |
| LEIGH, Paul Barry | Secretary | 2017-02-10 | 2024-08-31 |
| BENTLEY, Marlon | Director | 2022-10-06 | 2023-08-09 |
| CAMBY, Simon | Director | 2015-03-23 | 2015-07-13 |
| CAMBY, Simon | Director | 2012-05-16 | 2014-12-01 |
| CLARKE, Amanda | Director | 2016-05-16 | 2018-10-05 |
| DAVIES, Anthony Clive | Director | 2012-05-16 | 2023-07-07 |
| DAVIES, Linda | Director | 2012-05-16 | 2016-09-27 |
| DUGGAN, Claire Louise | Director | 2015-03-23 | 2017-02-27 |
| ETHERIDGE, Sarah | Director | 2015-02-02 | 2016-04-16 |
| FELCE, Jonathan | Director | 2015-02-02 | 2017-01-16 |
| FORD, Emma Victoria | Director | 2013-05-14 | 2015-03-23 |
| GREAVES, Katie Louise | Director | 2013-03-22 | 2017-05-27 |
| HALSALL, Christine | Director | 2013-01-01 | 2015-05-15 |
| HIBBERT, Elaine | Director | 2017-02-15 | 2018-01-26 |
| LEE, Helen | Director | 2017-09-18 | 2022-10-31 |
| MALIK, Rosina | Director | 2018-10-05 | 2023-01-20 |
| MATHER, Ross James | Director | 2018-10-05 | 2020-03-26 |
| MILBURN, Matthew | Director | 2017-07-06 | 2020-09-01 |
| REDMOND, Anne Sheila | Director | 2018-10-05 | 2023-07-25 |
| SHATLIFF, Rachel | Director | 2016-03-15 | 2018-05-15 |
| SPENCER, Daniel Gary | Director | 2013-03-22 | 2022-07-06 |
| STEWART, Antony | Director | 2023-06-16 | 2025-07-31 |
| WILLIS, Simon Charles | Director | 2017-09-18 | 2022-03-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Anthony Clive Davies | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-05-12 | Ceased 2023-07-07 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 102 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-11-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-11-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-07-29 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-07-29 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-13 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-10-13 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-11-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-02 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-09-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-29 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-07-29 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-06-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
+8.1%
£38,637,000 £41,777,000
-
Cash
-9.2%
£4,789,000 £4,349,000
-
Net assets
+1.5%
£37,160,000 £37,700,000
-
Employees
-3.3%
897 867
-
Operating profit
+249.2%
-£724,000 £1,080,000
-
Wages
+2.6%
£22,485,000 £23,062,000
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