BLUE COAT CHURCH OF ENGLAND ACADEMY (WALSALL) TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-24 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£984K
+2.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
+6.1% vs 2024
Employees
113
-7.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BLUE COAT CHURCH OF ENGLAND ACADEMY (WALSALL) TRUST 2012-07-18 → present
- BLUE COAT CHURCH OF ENGLAND (WALSALL) TRUST 2012-07-10 → 2012-07-18
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 | £7,758,511 | £8,275,488 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £301,776 | -£102,906 | |
| Cash | £956,247 | £984,066 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,797,473 | £6,606,947 | |
| Net assets | £6,162,080 | £6,540,174 | |
| Equity | £6,162,080 | £6,540,174 | |
| Average employees | 122 | 113 | |
| Wages | £4,360,559 | £4,552,246 |
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 | 3.9% | -1.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 13.9% | 6.1% | |
| Current ratio | 3.24x | 3.63x |
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
- “Trustees have put in place a clear succession planning policy, and continue to review and monitor arrangements for recruitment and the development of existing staff to minimise the risk resulting from major changes in key staff.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
14 active · 24 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCFARLANE, Sarah Jane | Secretary | 2021-03-29 | — | — |
| ADESINA, Debo Adebowale Babatunde | Director | 2021-03-24 | Apr 1963 | British,Nigerian |
| ADIL, Gulfaraz | Director | 2022-09-01 | Feb 1999 | British,Pakistani |
| BARKLEY, Christine | Director | 2024-02-08 | Jun 1972 | British |
| CLAYTON, Andrew John | Director | 2024-10-18 | Jan 1980 | British |
| EVERITT, Richard | Director | 2013-05-10 | Jul 1968 | British |
| FRANCIS, Candice | Director | 2025-11-27 | Feb 1985 | British |
| JONES, Kym | Director | 2017-10-09 | Oct 1975 | British |
| ORLIK, Anthony Douglas | Director | 2016-09-12 | Oct 1971 | British |
| PARKER, Lauren Kate | Director | 2018-11-12 | Feb 1990 | British |
| SELASSIE, Jeshurun | Director | 2025-02-06 | Jun 1992 | British |
| SMITH, David James | Director | 2016-09-01 | Mar 1973 | British |
| TROOD, James William, Revd | Director | 2015-01-29 | Aug 1968 | British |
| WELTON, Matthew Philip | Director | 2020-09-24 | Apr 1979 | British |
Show 24 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYODELE, Marie-Therese | Director | 2014-06-11 | 2016-03-29 |
| BAILEY, Susan Lesley | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2020-08-27 |
| BISHOP, Huw Daniel, The Revd | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2021-08-31 |
| BRIGGS, Lynda | Director | 2019-12-11 | 2024-06-03 |
| CHAMBERLAIN, Elizabeth Ann, Rev | Director | 2013-05-10 | 2014-07-20 |
| CLARKE-NIVORE, Latoya | Director | 2016-10-31 | 2017-10-30 |
| FRANCIS, Alexander James | Director | 2018-11-09 | 2019-11-21 |
| HEARNE, Philip Robert | Director | 2016-01-01 | 2016-08-31 |
| HICKENBOTTOM-MARRIOTT, Leanne Louise | Director | 2022-03-16 | 2023-01-04 |
| HOWARD, Carole | Director | 2015-10-19 | 2017-05-16 |
| MILLS, Pamela | Director | 2016-11-03 | 2022-03-03 |
| ORLIK, Anthony Douglas | Director | 2013-05-10 | 2015-03-03 |
| POWER, James Francis | Director | 2016-04-01 | 2016-08-31 |
| PROCTOR, John Albert | Director | 2015-03-24 | 2017-12-15 |
| RAYNER, Stephen Charles | Director | 2012-07-10 | 2021-08-31 |
| ROBERTS, Joy Anne | Director | 2013-07-10 | 2022-09-12 |
| SOHAL, Jaswinder Singh | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2023-01-01 |
| STEPHENSON, Angela Maureen | Director | 2013-05-10 | 2016-07-13 |
| TONKS, David Noel | Director | 2012-07-10 | 2018-07-24 |
| WALKER, Jacqueline | Director | 2013-05-10 | 2015-07-04 |
| WALTERS, Patricia Susan | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2016-04-11 |
| WALTERS, Patricia Susan | Director | 2012-07-10 | 2015-08-31 |
| WEDGWOOD, Susan Marie | Director | 2016-09-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| WESTERMAN, Alan | Director | 2012-07-10 | 2015-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diocese Of Lichfield Education Trust Ltd | Corporate entity | Appoints directors | 2016-06-30 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 108 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-02-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-05 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-09-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-08-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-06 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
+6.7%
£7,758,511 £8,275,488
-
Cash
+2.9%
£956,247 £984,066
-
Net assets
+6.1%
£6,162,080 £6,540,174
-
Employees
-7.4%
122 113
-
Wages
+4.4%
£4,360,559 £4,552,246
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