PRESTON HEDGES TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-20 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-06
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+14.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£14M
+0.8% vs 2024
Employees
251
+14.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- PRESTON HEDGES TRUST 2022-10-12 → present
- PRESTON HEDGES ACADEMY TRUST 2016-08-08 → 2022-10-12
- PRESTON HEDGES PRIMARY SCHOOL 2012-11-06 → 2016-08-08
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 | £8,668,000 | £9,625,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£230,000 | £45,000 | |
| Cash | £2,131,000 | £2,434,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £13,991,000 | £13,957,000 | |
| Net assets | £13,850,000 | £13,957,000 | |
| Equity | £13,850,000 | £13,957,000 | |
| Average employees | 220 | 251 | |
| Wages | £5,239,000 | £5,650,000 |
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 | -2.7% | 0.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 6.6% | 6.9% | |
| Current ratio | 2.92x | 2.68x |
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 (Birmingham) LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the 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 Trust is expecting to secure an academy order in 2025 for Broughton Fields Primary School in Milton Keynes.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 24 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAUTREY, Catherine | Secretary | 2018-09-01 | — | — |
| ANDREW, Stevyn | Director | 2023-03-22 | Mar 1981 | British |
| BALAKRISHNAN, Sharanniya | Director | 2022-09-20 | Jan 1985 | British |
| BRINKLEY, Mike | Director | 2021-04-01 | Feb 1982 | British |
| DAWES, Paul | Director | 2021-04-01 | Aug 1979 | English |
| GENTRY, Lee John | Director | 2012-12-01 | Jan 1973 | British |
| HUGHES, David Martin | Director | 2018-09-01 | Jun 1975 | British |
| MURRAY, Jane | Director | 2018-09-01 | Aug 1962 | British |
| NYAMATORE, David | Director | 2021-04-01 | Feb 1981 | British |
| ROWDEN, Paul | Director | 2025-10-01 | Jul 1966 | British |
| SMITH, Linda Sharon | Director | 2018-09-01 | Apr 1965 | British |
| WATSON, Paul | Director | 2012-11-06 | Jun 1977 | British |
| WHITE, Liz | Director | 2021-04-01 | Dec 1975 | British |
Show 24 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVANS, Julie Elsa Louise | Secretary | 2014-12-03 | 2016-09-20 |
| MOORE, Carole Ann | Secretary | 2012-11-06 | 2014-10-31 |
| ARMSTRONG, Katherine | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2016-09-20 |
| BAKER, Tania Clare | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2013-07-19 |
| BROWN, Gary Alexander | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2016-08-20 |
| BUSWELL, Andrew | Director | 2014-11-15 | 2016-09-20 |
| DENTON, Rachel | Director | 2014-11-15 | 2016-09-20 |
| DILLOW, Carl | Director | 2021-04-01 | 2023-11-23 |
| EVANS, Julie Elsa Louise | Director | 2016-09-20 | 2018-10-04 |
| EVANS, Julie Elsa Louise | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2013-05-24 |
| FIDLER, Trevor | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2020-07-07 |
| GYLES, Christopher Alan | Director | 2012-11-06 | 2014-07-18 |
| HICKFORD, Rebecca Joanne | Director | 2013-02-25 | 2022-12-06 |
| HONEYWOOD, Catherine Jane | Director | 2014-10-08 | 2016-09-20 |
| HUGHES, David Martin | Director | 2013-02-25 | 2016-09-20 |
| JOHNSON, Sarah Tracy | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2020-06-29 |
| OLIVER, Claire Louise | Director | 2013-02-25 | 2013-10-25 |
| PALMER, Andrew Simon | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2016-09-20 |
| PEARMAIN, Wendy Alison | Director | 2019-12-01 | 2022-05-01 |
| PRESCOTT, Neal | Director | 2018-09-01 | 2021-07-12 |
| PRESCOTT, Neal James | Director | 2012-11-06 | 2016-09-20 |
| RICKETTS, John | Director | 2020-12-12 | 2021-09-20 |
| SAUNDERS, Sarah Louise | Director | 2013-10-22 | 2016-09-20 |
| STEPHENSON, Esther Clare | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2016-09-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 104 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-10-12 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2022-10-12 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-27 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2024-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-12 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2022-10-12 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2022-09-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
+11%
£8,668,000 £9,625,000
-
Cash
+14.2%
£2,131,000 £2,434,000
-
Net assets
+0.8%
£13,850,000 £13,957,000
-
Employees
+14.1%
220 251
-
Wages
+7.8%
£5,239,000 £5,650,000
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