CENTRAL REGION SCHOOLS TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-27 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
-16.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£77M
-3.6% vs 2024
Employees
990
+2.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£2M
-237.8% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- CENTRAL REGION SCHOOLS TRUST 2021-08-09 → present
- CENTRAL RSA ACADEMIES TRUST 2017-08-24 → 2021-08-09
- REDDITCH RSA ACADEMIES TRUST 2012-08-02 → 2017-08-24
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 | £56,551,000 | £57,343,000 | |
| Operating profit | £2,709,000 | -£968,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,580,000 | -£2,177,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,580,000 | -£2,177,000 | |
| Cash | £6,953,000 | £5,807,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £79,390,000 | £76,525,000 | |
| Net assets | £79,380,000 | £76,518,000 | |
| Equity | £79,380,000 | £76,518,000 | |
| Average employees | 965 | 990 | |
| Wages | £29,469,000 | £32,011,000 |
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 | 4.8% | -1.7% | |
| Net margin | 2.8% | -3.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.4% | -1.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 5.5% | 5.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.99x | 1.74x | |
| Interest cover | 1.91x | -0.63x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Dains Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the academy has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The Trust will continue to grow with Matchborough First School joining in January 2026.”
- “Waseley Hills is close to completion of phase one of its School Rebuild Programme supported by the DfE, with the occupation anticipated to be September 2025. Phase 2 is due to be completed February 2027.”
- “Arrow Vale has further been confirmed in a later phase of the School Rebuild Programme and the initial discussion with regards to the extent of the new build will commence in 2027.”
- “On 1 September 2025, Phase 1 of the new build was signed over to the Trust.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, Rita | Secretary | 2025-08-02 | — | — |
| AHMED, Nasa | Director | 2025-01-09 | Jan 1992 | British |
| BOWER, Gareth | Director | 2023-01-04 | Nov 1973 | British |
| CLIFFORD, Nicholas Raymond, Dr | Director | 2020-01-10 | May 1950 | British |
| DAVIES, Richard | Director | 2025-03-10 | Sep 1969 | British |
| GRAINGER, Claire | Director | 2023-09-04 | Feb 1975 | British |
| GRIFFITHS, Eric Leslie | Director | 2012-08-02 | Sep 1947 | British |
| HOWARD, John | Director | 2022-03-30 | Feb 1950 | British |
| MACSHERRY, Orla Marie | Director | 2018-03-21 | Mar 1969 | Irish |
| SMITH, Christopher Peter | Director | 2023-06-19 | Jan 1974 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOMER, Jennie | Secretary | 2022-08-04 | 2025-08-01 |
| ADAMS, William Thomas, Reverend | Director | 2014-12-10 | 2022-09-28 |
| ALLEN, Lorraine Faith | Director | 2012-08-02 | 2016-07-31 |
| ATKINSON, Catherine | Director | 2017-02-07 | 2018-01-17 |
| BATES, Sarah Anne | Director | 2018-08-22 | 2021-11-11 |
| BRADLEY, Dominic James | Director | 2022-03-30 | 2023-09-12 |
| CHIKOWORE, Wilfred | Director | 2019-10-02 | 2021-12-31 |
| CHOWDHURY, Mohammed Emtiyaz Raza | Director | 2020-06-15 | 2023-07-12 |
| CRITCHLEY, Alison Gwyneth | Director | 2012-08-02 | 2016-12-31 |
| CROCKETT, Elizabeth Ruth | Director | 2012-08-02 | 2014-12-10 |
| HARRIS, Sumandeep Kaur | Director | 2025-03-18 | 2026-03-05 |
| HOWARD, John | Director | 2017-03-27 | 2020-03-10 |
| HOWELLS, John Gunter | Director | 2019-03-20 | 2022-03-23 |
| KEATES, Elizabeth Jayne | Director | 2017-09-20 | 2025-03-12 |
| NASH, Paul | Director | 2016-03-01 | 2019-02-04 |
| REDFERN, Peter | Director | 2014-12-10 | 2017-07-31 |
| RILEY, Nicole | Director | 2022-09-07 | 2023-10-01 |
| STEPHENSON, John | Director | 2021-10-28 | 2023-01-01 |
| STEPHENSON, John | Director | 2016-11-28 | 2017-11-22 |
| WOODCOCK, Joanna | Director | 2020-03-19 | 2024-02-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Peter Charles Slough | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2019-06-10 | Ceased 2019-06-10 |
| Mr Malcolm Napier Forbes | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2018-07-13 | Ceased 2019-06-10 |
| Ms Susan Jeanne Hind Woodward | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2018-07-13 | Ceased 2019-06-10 |
| Reverend William Thomas Adams | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-06-10 |
| Dr Susan Margaret Horner | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-06-10 |
| Mr Eric Leslie Griffiths | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-11-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 108 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-13 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-08-13 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
+1.4%
£56,551,000 £57,343,000
-
Cash
-16.5%
£6,953,000 £5,807,000
-
Net assets
-3.6%
£79,380,000 £76,518,000
-
Employees
+2.6%
965 990
-
Operating profit
-135.7%
£2,709,000 -£968,000
-
Profit before tax
-237.8%
£1,580,000 -£2,177,000
-
Wages
+8.6%
£29,469,000 £32,011,000
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