CHINGFORD ACADEMIES TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-15 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-01
Watchouts
Cash
£651K
+149.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£33M
+6.4% vs 2024
Employees
260
+1.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£171K
+16.2% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £17,410,000 | £18,669,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£204,000 | -£171,000 | |
| Net profit | -£204,000 | -£171,000 | |
| Cash | £261,000 | £651,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £35,356,000 | £35,077,000 | |
| Net assets | £31,477,000 | £33,497,000 | |
| Equity | £31,477,000 | £33,497,000 | |
| Average employees | 256 | 260 | |
| Wages | £9,621,000 | £9,888,000 |
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 | -1.2% | -0.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 15.0% | 8.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.92x | 2.29x |
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
- UHY Hacker Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After taking appropriate measures, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, despite reductions in external funding. For this reason, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Chingford Foundation School has been selected as part of the Schools Rebuilding Programme which will include new buildings, thereby allowing the Trust to compete with nearby schools in terms of modern buildings and facilities.”
- “Capital investment was made in 2024-25 to South Chingford Foundation School to upgrade to Windows 11, improve the main hall and its sound system as well as re-purpose a workshop into a classroom. At Chingford Foundation School, further capital investment included a new Sixth Form Café.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLIJOHN, Yvonne | Secretary | 2012-08-14 | — | — |
| BAKER, Stuart | Director | 2023-07-07 | Feb 1958 | British |
| NASSIM, Lyndsey | Director | 2025-02-05 | Mar 1975 | British |
| VON MOLLENDORFF, Cornelis Jacobus | Director | 2023-07-07 | Sep 1983 | British |
| WRIGHT, Aaron | Director | 2025-02-21 | Mar 1979 | British |
| YOUNG, Anthony Norman Frederick | Director | 2013-03-08 | May 1949 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENTON, Jane Elizabeth Anne | Director | 2019-09-01 | 2022-08-31 |
| BRUCE, John | Director | 2018-11-29 | 2022-11-28 |
| CARRUTHERS, Henry James | Director | 2016-11-28 | 2019-12-13 |
| CARRUTHERS, Henry James | Director | 2012-08-14 | 2013-10-07 |
| CHOPIN-JOHN, Rosemary Helen | Director | 2012-08-14 | 2020-10-01 |
| DELANEY, Steve | Director | 2018-11-30 | 2025-08-31 |
| EVANS, Geraldine Anne | Director | 2012-08-14 | 2021-08-31 |
| HOWES, Colin George | Director | 2013-03-18 | 2019-08-31 |
| HUTTON-WHITAKER, Aaron Thomas | Director | 2013-03-18 | 2013-10-31 |
| KYRIACOU, Costas | Director | 2023-05-25 | 2024-05-29 |
| LEGGETT, Peter | Director | 2020-10-08 | 2020-10-09 |
| LEGGETT, Peter George | Director | 2013-03-18 | 2020-07-15 |
| MORRALL, Mark Francis Edward George | Director | 2012-09-01 | 2019-08-31 |
| MOTALA, Shakil | Director | 2015-07-08 | 2023-11-15 |
| MUSGRAVE, Andrew Stephen | Director | 2013-10-09 | 2017-07-19 |
| PIETERS, Churnet | Director | 2022-03-20 | 2025-08-31 |
| PRIEST, Daren | Director | 2013-03-18 | 2015-03-24 |
| SMITH, Annalisa | Director | 2025-02-05 | 2026-02-04 |
| TAYLOR, Neil Peter | Director | 2013-03-18 | 2017-02-09 |
| WARD, Katherine | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2025-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Costas Kyriacou | Individual | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2024-12-11 | Active |
| Mr John Bruce | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2022-11-29 | Active |
| Mrs Sheena Hodgson | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2022-05-23 | Ceased 2022-10-13 |
| Mr Alan Smith | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2021-04-06 | Active |
| Mr Peter Leggett | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2020-12-13 | Active |
| Mrs Geraldine Anne Evans | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-08-14 | Ceased 2021-08-31 |
| Mrs Rosemary Helen Chopin-John | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-08-14 | Ceased 2020-10-01 |
| Mr Anthony Norman Frederick Young | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-08-14 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 81 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-12 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 4
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
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Turnover
+7.2%
£17,410,000 £18,669,000
-
Cash
+149.4%
£261,000 £651,000
-
Net assets
+6.4%
£31,477,000 £33,497,000
-
Employees
+1.6%
256 260
-
Profit before tax
+16.2%
-£204,000 -£171,000
-
Wages
+2.8%
£9,621,000 £9,888,000
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