ORCHARD ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-25 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-11
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
+16.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£8M
-2.5% vs 2024
Employees
126
+2.4% 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 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ORCHARD ACADEMY TRUST 2016-05-11 → present
- ALLINGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL 2012-10-11 → 2016-05-11
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 | £5,284,000 | £5,585,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£174,000 | -£153,000 | |
| Cash | £931,000 | £1,085,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,544,000 | £8,329,000 | |
| Net assets | £8,544,000 | £8,329,000 | |
| Equity | £8,544,000 | £8,329,000 | |
| Average employees | 123 | 126 | |
| Wages | £3,000,000 | £3,170,000 |
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 | -3.3% | -2.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 3.8% | 4.4% | |
| Current ratio | 3.34x | 3.35x |
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
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the trustees have 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
- “Allington Primary School is oversubscribed and the Number on Roll at Barming has increased to full capacity.”
- “Trustees have allocated additional resource to fund teaching support.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 29 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCHOFIELD SWEENEY LLP | Corporate Secretary | 2012-10-11 | — | — |
| CRITTENDEN, Ashley Sarah | Director | 2023-09-01 | Aug 1972 | British |
| JOHNSON, David | Director | 2021-12-09 | Oct 1981 | British |
| KNIGHT, Christopher Graham | Director | 2021-09-13 | Jul 1968 | British |
| MAILING, Anne Elizabeth | Director | 2012-12-01 | Jan 1961 | British |
| SALTER, Lynn Deana Elizabeth | Director | 2023-05-25 | May 1962 | British |
| SHIMMIN, Lucy | Director | 2023-12-06 | Jul 1987 | British |
| SMETHAM, Nigel Bernard, Dr | Director | 2012-10-11 | Oct 1956 | British |
| STEPNEY, Ben | Director | 2020-11-19 | Jan 1984 | British |
Show 29 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, Jonathan David | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2016-06-27 |
| BRISTOW, Stella Maureen | Director | 2012-10-11 | 2015-09-16 |
| COLLINGS, Andrew Christopher | Director | 2018-04-06 | 2018-04-21 |
| COLLINS, Gavin | Director | 2021-12-09 | 2025-12-11 |
| CONNELL, Matthew David | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2015-01-01 |
| COUCHMAN, Jonathan Blake | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2016-01-16 |
| CRAMPTON, Helen Patricia | Director | 2016-07-20 | 2018-09-23 |
| CRITTALL, Hazel | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2021-07-12 |
| DOLTON, Josephine | Director | 2012-10-11 | 2016-05-18 |
| GAZET, Amanda Jane | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2014-12-17 |
| GEADAH, Mark David | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2014-08-24 |
| GILBY, Kelvin Robert | Director | 2018-04-06 | 2018-11-09 |
| GRANT, Neil | Director | 2019-05-14 | 2023-05-25 |
| HAYES, Julia May | Director | 2015-02-04 | 2016-06-27 |
| HIGGS, Michael Edward | Director | 2015-02-27 | 2016-03-29 |
| HOWSON, Carolyn | Director | 2015-09-16 | 2016-06-27 |
| JULIUS, Olagbade Janet | Director | 2021-07-12 | 2023-07-13 |
| MCGRATH, Gerard Christopher | Director | 2021-09-13 | 2021-09-22 |
| MOFFATT, Anthony Francis | Director | 2016-06-27 | 2017-07-12 |
| NORTH, William Walter, Reverend | Director | 2018-06-18 | 2021-07-21 |
| PRICE, Mark John | Director | 2012-10-11 | 2015-05-20 |
| RAZEY, Graham Gordon | Director | 2016-06-27 | 2017-07-19 |
| ROBERTS, Marie | Director | 2018-02-09 | 2019-07-01 |
| ROBERTSON, Paul Ian | Director | 2016-11-01 | 2018-04-27 |
| SARGEANT, Julia | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2016-06-27 |
| SMITH, Michelle Cesarina | Director | 2016-06-27 | 2018-03-26 |
| SMITH, Russell | Director | 2019-05-14 | 2021-12-09 |
| WINDER, Mary | Director | 2019-10-02 | 2020-03-25 |
| YOUNG, Jennifer Jane | Director | 2015-01-01 | 2023-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Edward Costello | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2025-11-10 | Active |
| Ms Rachel Emma Gordon | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2025-11-10 | Active |
| Dr Nigel Bernard Smetham | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2025-11-10 | Active |
| Michael Edward Costello | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2024-12-11 | Ceased 2025-03-28 |
| Dr Nigel Bernard Smetham | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2024-12-11 | Ceased 2025-03-28 |
| Ms Rachel Emma Gordon | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2024-12-11 | Ceased 2025-03-28 |
| Mrs Julia May Hayes | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-07-01 | Ceased 2019-07-01 |
| Michael Edward Costello | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-07-01 | Ceased 2019-07-01 |
| Dr Nigel Bernard Smetham | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-07-01 | Ceased 2019-07-01 |
| Mrs Julia May Hayes | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-12-07 |
| Ms Josephine Dolton | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-12-07 |
| Dr Nigel Bernard Smetham | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-12-07 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 134 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-04-20 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-03-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-03-18 | RP01PSC01 | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2026-03-18 | RP01PSC01 | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2026-03-18 | RP01PSC01 | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2025-12-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-14 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-14 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-14 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-14 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-10-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company | |
| 2025-04-02 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-04-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-15 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-15 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 13
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
+5.7%
£5,284,000 £5,585,000
-
Cash
+16.5%
£931,000 £1,085,000
-
Net assets
-2.5%
£8,544,000 £8,329,000
-
Employees
+2.4%
123 126
-
Wages
+5.7%
£3,000,000 £3,170,000
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