THE BATH AND WELLS DIOCESAN ACADEMIES TRUST

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  5 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Bishop Fleming Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees make this assessment in respect of a period of at least one year from the date of authorisation for issue of the financial statements and have concluded that the Academy Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and there are no material uncertainties about the Academy Trust's ability to continue as a going concern, thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. THE BATH AND WELLS DIOCESAN ACADEMIES TRUST · parent
   1. Bath and Wells Education Services Limited

Significant events

• “This has been a year of transition for the Trust, marked by significant changes in membership of the Board. Interim arrangements were established to cover Board leadership once the existing Chair reached the end of his term of office in November 2024.”
• “At 31 August 2025 the Trust operated 45 primary aged academies (42 in 2023-24) in three Local Authorities, Somerset, North Somerset, and Bath & North East Somerset. It had a combined pupil roll of 8,010 at August 2025 (8,052 at August 2024).”
• “The Trust's local governance arrangements were subject to an extensive review and consultation process in 23/24 and, as a result of this, the Trust is moving towards the establishment of Trust Local Committees (TLCs). The majority of schools moved to the new TLC model in 24/25, with the final schools converting in November 25.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

12

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +1%

  £71,171,000 → £71,905,000

• Cash

  +15.2%

  £6,541,000 → £7,537,000

• Net assets

  +9.4%

  £122,733,000 → £134,253,000

• Employees

  -0.8%

  1,577 → 1,565

• Operating profit

  -32.2%

  £12,765,000 → £8,650,000

• Profit before tax

  -32.2%

  £12,765,000 → £8,650,000

• Wages

  +5.7%

  £31,759,000 → £33,566,000

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