HOLYWELL CHURCH OF ENGLAND ACADEMY
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-15 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£535K
+3.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£9M
-1.3% vs 2024
Employees
87
-3.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
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 | £4,396,136 | £4,695,434 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£292,066 | -£95,285 | |
| Cash | £515,217 | £534,859 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £9,278,896 | £9,159,789 | |
| Net assets | £9,277,074 | £9,159,789 | |
| Equity | £9,277,074 | £9,159,789 | |
| Average employees | 90 | 87 | |
| Wages | £2,639,868 | £2,734,490 |
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 | -6.6% | -2.0% | |
| Current ratio | 4.63x | 7.66x |
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
- Duncan & Toplis Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Governing Body has a reasonable expectation that the Academy 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
- “During 2024-2025, the Academy had a number of activities to enhance the curriculum. Various curriculum-linked trips and visits included: Year 5 Life Path, Year 8 visit to Milton Keynes, Curriculum Trips... and a number of theatre visits.”
- “As part of Central Bedfordshire's Local Plan, all schools in the local area are in the process of reorganising schools into a Primary-Secondary structure. The Academy conducted a formal consultation in September 2023 and again in September 2024.”
- “The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025 and all of its functions transferred to the Department for Education (DfE).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 26 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABOOD, Sue | Director | 2018-12-10 | Sep 1976 | British |
| FROSSELL, Fiona Clare | Director | 2023-09-01 | Dec 1960 | British |
| HOOD-SMITH, Lyndsey | Director | 2023-11-16 | Jun 1975 | British |
| JENKINS, Sara | Director | 2016-04-01 | Jun 1956 | British |
| JOHN, Lisa Emma | Director | 2025-09-01 | Sep 1982 | British |
| KENDALL, Pauline (Ex Officio Chair Of Governors) | Director | 2012-10-01 | Aug 1956 | British |
| OKOJIE, Emma Pui-San Lau | Director | 2025-10-22 | Oct 1986 | Chinese |
| PAIN, Isaac Timothy, Reverend | Director | 2021-03-04 | Oct 1986 | British |
| SANDERS, Martin | Director | 2014-09-01 | Feb 1972 | British |
| SIMPSON, Michael Graham | Director | 2017-09-01 | Sep 1964 | British |
| TURNER, Isabel Lloyd | Director | 2012-10-01 | Aug 1970 | British |
| ULPH, James Nicholas | Director | 2025-10-22 | Jul 1975 | British |
| WATSON, Ann | Director | 2025-10-22 | Aug 1969 | British |
Show 26 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACKROYD, Joanna | Director | 2012-10-01 | 2019-06-27 |
| ALDRIDGE, Antony Keith | Director | 2018-12-10 | 2020-11-25 |
| APTED, Steve | Director | 2012-10-01 | 2019-06-27 |
| BACON, Helen Ruth | Director | 2015-09-01 | 2016-04-01 |
| BACON, Rachel | Director | 2014-09-01 | 2020-03-05 |
| BILLINGTON, Jonathan Kimber | Director | 2012-09-21 | 2014-10-31 |
| BUTTERWICK, Emma | Director | 2016-05-01 | 2019-09-30 |
| COLBOURNE, Neil | Director | 2021-11-25 | 2025-02-07 |
| COLLINS, Lynn | Director | 2023-01-16 | 2024-12-31 |
| COLLINS, Lynn | Director | 2012-10-01 | 2020-09-30 |
| COOK, Elaine | Director | 2012-09-21 | 2019-06-07 |
| FROSSELL, Fiona Clare | Director | 2019-09-17 | 2023-08-31 |
| HADDON, Peter Laurence Walby | Director | 2012-09-21 | 2017-08-31 |
| HALL, David Richard | Director | 2012-10-01 | 2015-08-31 |
| HUBBARD, Simon James | Director | 2020-10-21 | 2024-10-20 |
| KING, Sarah | Director | 2014-10-21 | 2018-10-20 |
| KING, Selina | Director | 2014-09-01 | 2018-11-19 |
| MCVITIE, Michael | Director | 2014-10-21 | 2019-05-09 |
| POWELL, Toni | Director | 2020-12-10 | 2025-02-07 |
| SHEHAB, Essam Marmoud Hassan, Professor | Director | 2017-11-08 | 2018-11-26 |
| SINGH, Kamaljit Bains | Director | 2018-12-10 | 2020-02-03 |
| SPELMAN, John | Director | 2012-10-01 | 2017-05-11 |
| STEPHENSON, Sarah | Director | 2020-10-01 | 2022-08-31 |
| STEWART, Alsion | Director | 2014-01-01 | 2016-04-01 |
| SYMES-THOMPSON, Hugh, Rev | Director | 2012-10-01 | 2019-06-27 |
| ULPH, James Nicholas | Director | 2018-11-26 | 2021-11-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wootton Parochial Church Council | Corporate entity | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2020-10-01 | Active |
| Cranfield Parochial Church Council (Rev Isaac Pain ) | Corporate entity | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2020-10-01 | Active |
| Ms Pauline (Ex Officio Chair Of Governors) Kendall | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2020-09-01 | Active |
| Ms Pauline (Ex Officio Chair Of Governors) Kendall | Individual | Appoints directors | 2019-05-09 | Ceased 2020-10-01 |
| Diocese Of St Albans | Corporate entity | Appoints directors | 2019-05-09 | Active |
| Mr Martin Sanders | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-10-01 |
| Rev Hugh Kynard Symes-Thompson | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-06-27 |
| Mrs Elaine Cook | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-05-09 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 108 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-20 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 10
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- 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
+6.8%
£4,396,136 £4,695,434
-
Cash
+3.8%
£515,217 £534,859
-
Net assets
-1.3%
£9,277,074 £9,159,789
-
Employees
-3.3%
90 87
-
Wages
+3.6%
£2,639,868 £2,734,490
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