BIRKETT HOUSE SCHOOL
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-05 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-21
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
+14.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£8M
+0.3% vs 2024
Employees
198
-3.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 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 | £5,886,000 | £6,557,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£77,000 | £288,000 | |
| Cash | £2,146,000 | £2,463,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £7,768,000 | £7,794,000 | |
| Equity | £7,768,000 | £7,794,000 | |
| Average employees | 206 | 198 | |
| Wages | £4,148,000 | £4,290,000 |
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 | -1.3% | 4.4% | |
| Current ratio | 2.07x | 2.08x |
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
- MHA
- 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
- “The principal risks facing the Academy Trust are: Reputational risk - Internal risk factors might include lack of policies and procedures... Performance risk - In a special School performance of a pupil learning is very individual... Financial Risk - The principal financial risks are a reduction in pupil numbers, reduction in central government funding, unbudgeted increase in teaching or support staff costs, or unbudgeted major capital repairs.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
14 active · 37 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE, Christopher John | Secretary | 2018-08-28 | — | — |
| BANKS, Alison Mae | Director | 2024-06-12 | Mar 1966 | British |
| BENHAM, Chris | Director | 2025-03-05 | Jan 1972 | British |
| BINGLEY, Olivia | Director | 2023-11-08 | Nov 1977 | British |
| FINDLEY, Sarah Jane | Director | 2024-09-30 | Jul 1994 | British |
| HAMMOND, Justin | Director | 2024-06-12 | Mar 1975 | British |
| HODGES, Victoria | Director | 2025-03-05 | Dec 1979 | British |
| KOPACZEL, Kathryn Louise | Director | 2022-11-09 | May 1980 | British |
| LEVY, Sarah Catherine Mary, Dr | Director | 2023-09-13 | Sep 1971 | British |
| MASOOD, Mehwish | Director | 2023-09-13 | Nov 1986 | Pakistani |
| PEARCE, Timothy Robert | Director | 2020-09-16 | Mar 1962 | British |
| SMITH, Mark James | Director | 2024-09-11 | Apr 1988 | British |
| SPRAY, Sarah Elaine | Director | 2024-03-20 | May 1978 | British |
| WHITE, Christopher John | Director | 2018-08-27 | Apr 1969 | British |
Show 37 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORN, Susan Hilary | Secretary | 2017-12-01 | 2018-08-31 |
| STANFORD SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2012-09-27 | 2017-11-30 |
| AHMED, Ume Sundas | Director | 2022-11-09 | 2024-04-02 |
| BAKER, Alan | Director | 2012-09-27 | 2017-08-31 |
| BANNISTER, Andrew Philip | Director | 2012-11-01 | 2014-06-01 |
| BENTLEY, Julie Anne | Director | 2015-04-01 | 2018-09-28 |
| BENTLEY, Lee | Director | 2012-11-01 | 2020-07-09 |
| BICKLEY, Linda Jane | Director | 2017-11-01 | 2023-11-01 |
| BRADFORD, Jennifer Ruth | Director | 2015-04-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| BROOKS, Catherine | Director | 2012-11-01 | 2015-02-01 |
| BROUGHTON, Samantha | Director | 2023-09-13 | 2025-01-10 |
| COPSON, Richard Adam | Director | 2023-06-14 | 2025-01-09 |
| CROOK, Stephen Paul | Director | 2013-11-21 | 2015-12-31 |
| DESAI, Raithatha | Director | 2013-01-03 | 2015-12-31 |
| DILKES, Emily | Director | 2024-10-11 | 2025-06-10 |
| FARR, Iain Richard | Director | 2024-06-12 | 2026-02-05 |
| FOSTER, Kate | Director | 2016-03-21 | 2020-09-16 |
| FREESTONE, Lynda | Director | 2015-06-01 | 2020-09-30 |
| HACKETT, Elaine Catherine | Director | 2022-11-09 | 2024-01-12 |
| HIGGINSON, Alexandra Alice | Director | 2022-11-09 | 2024-07-20 |
| HORN, Susan Hilary | Director | 2012-11-01 | 2018-08-31 |
| JOHNSON, Jennifer | Director | 2012-11-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| LAMBERT, Maureen | Director | 2016-10-01 | 2023-05-11 |
| LIGHTBOWN, Fiona Barbara | Director | 2012-09-27 | 2017-02-28 |
| LOCKETT-BATES, Hannah | Director | 2020-11-11 | 2024-05-14 |
| LOWE, Rosemary | Director | 2012-09-27 | 2018-07-13 |
| MCQUAID, Andrew Michael | Director | 2013-10-01 | 2022-08-31 |
| PERCIVAL, Sophie Elizabeth | Director | 2018-05-01 | 2022-08-31 |
| ROBERTSHAW, Emily Rose | Director | 2023-09-13 | 2025-05-19 |
| ROBERTSHAW, Emily Rose | Director | 2018-12-19 | 2022-12-22 |
| ROGERS, Karl | Director | 2012-11-01 | 2015-03-01 |
| ROYLEY, James Kevin | Director | 2016-05-01 | 2023-05-20 |
| RUFFETT, David | Director | 2019-02-27 | 2023-02-15 |
| SIMMONS, Jane | Director | 2020-11-11 | 2021-03-03 |
| STARMER, Kathryn | Director | 2020-11-11 | 2024-10-28 |
| TYLER, William | Director | 2017-11-01 | 2020-03-27 |
| WHITTINGHAM, John Hallimond | Director | 2023-11-08 | 2024-11-07 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 117 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-14 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
+11.4%
£5,886,000 £6,557,000
-
Cash
+14.8%
£2,146,000 £2,463,000
-
Net assets
+0.3%
£7,768,000 £7,794,000
-
Employees
-3.9%
206 198
-
Wages
+3.4%
£4,148,000 £4,290,000
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