NEW BRIDGE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-19 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-05
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
+233.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£63M
+3.6% vs 2024
Employees
890
+6.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- NEW BRIDGE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST 2015-05-12 → present
- NEW BRIDGE SCHOOL 2012-07-05 → 2015-05-12
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 | £40,952,453 | £49,017,284 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £18,299,517 | £3,638,087 | |
| Cash | £2,487,736 | £8,302,256 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £60,649,109 | £62,858,196 | |
| Net assets | £60,649,109 | £62,858,196 | |
| Equity | £60,649,109 | £62,858,196 | |
| Average employees | 839 | 890 | |
| Wages | £24,006,761 | £26,402,117 |
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 | 44.7% | 7.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 6.5% | 9.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.38x | 1.51x |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the trustees have 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.”
Group structure
- NEW BRIDGE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST · parent
- New Bridge Fund
Significant events
- “Hollinwood Academy and New Bridge School were awarded ADS in 2023-2024, and Samuel Laycock were recently awarded ADS in 2024-2025.”
- “New Bridge School has been awarded the prestigious Sportsmark Gold.”
- “In September 2024, the Trust opened a brand new site for Hawthorns School, in Mottram.”
- “Heywood Academy opened an became an official part of the MAT in September 2025.”
- “On 1 January 2025 the Thomas Ashton School converted to academy trust status under the Academies Act 2010.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RIGHINI, Rita Kay | Secretary | 2012-07-05 | — | — |
| COLBOURNE, Toby | Director | 2024-07-04 | Aug 1974 | British |
| LORD, Janet Margaret | Director | 2022-11-22 | Jan 1965 | British |
| MCKENZIE, Colin Stewart | Director | 2025-01-21 | Dec 1975 | British |
| NIELD, Alison Michelle | Director | 2016-08-31 | Mar 1968 | British |
| RAMSBOTTOM, Margaret Jean | Director | 2012-07-05 | Feb 1941 | British |
| SHAW, Valerie | Director | 2017-01-04 | Jul 1951 | British |
| SOUTHERINGTON, Clare Elizabeth | Director | 2023-09-01 | Dec 1970 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Stephen, Councillor | Director | 2012-07-05 | Sep 1957 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKER, Catherine Bernadette | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
| EVANS, Karen | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
| FITZGERALD, Pauline Mary | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
| FOXEN-DURNIEN, Steven | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2023-01-17 |
| HUNT, Linda Christine | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
| KINDON, Carole Elizabeth | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
| LUCAS, Keith | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-12-31 |
| NIELD, Alison Michelle | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
| PALMER, Phil | Director | 2016-08-31 | 2021-07-15 |
| PALMER, Philip Christopher | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
| PLATT, David Graham | Director | 2020-07-07 | 2021-10-20 |
| QUINN, Graham | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2023-09-01 |
| READYHOUGH, Joan | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2022-10-23 |
| SARNO, Rosario | Director | 2022-02-15 | 2024-02-28 |
| STAPLETON, Kenneth David | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
| TOOTILL, Alison Mary | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
| WEBBER, Jean | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
| WILLIAMS, Catherine Mary | Director | 2012-07-05 | 2015-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 63 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-07-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-04-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name 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
+19.7%
£40,952,453 £49,017,284
-
Cash
+233.7%
£2,487,736 £8,302,256
-
Net assets
+3.6%
£60,649,109 £62,858,196
-
Employees
+6.1%
839 890
-
Wages
+10%
£24,006,761 £26,402,117
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