INSPIRE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-21 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-07
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£705K
+51% vs 2024
Net assets
£10M
+2.9% vs 2024
Employees
149
-1.3% 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 | £7,727,000 | £8,717,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£532,000 | £305,000 | |
| Cash | £467,000 | £705,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £9,547,000 | £9,828,000 | |
| Net assets | £9,547,000 | £9,828,000 | |
| Equity | £9,547,000 | £9,828,000 | |
| Average employees | 151 | 149 | |
| Wages | £4,285,000 | £4,387,000 |
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 | -6.9% | 3.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 4.8% | 4.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.95x | 3.38x |
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
- Azets Audit Services
- 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 Trust were awarded a Condition Improvement Fund grant on £567,220 to replace part of the flat roofing system at Farringdon Academy.”
- “£2,607 allocated to Plains Farm to install a leased line to provide superfast broadband to the site (Virgin Media donated £5k towards this cost).”
- “Burnside and Plains Farm academies were inspected by Ofsted in October and December 2024 respectively. The inspections were ungraded and both schools had taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection (good and good with outstanding EYFS).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 23 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLAN, Simon Kenneth | Secretary | 2014-01-01 | — | — |
| BOLTON, Emma Louise | Director | 2020-04-27 | Feb 1980 | British |
| BROWN, Howard William | Director | 2014-03-25 | Sep 1955 | British |
| GRAHAM, Christopher | Director | 2019-01-24 | Jun 1955 | British |
| HARRISON, Paul | Director | 2025-12-16 | Apr 1983 | British |
| PARR, Annette | Director | 2019-01-24 | Jul 1958 | British |
| RUFFELL, Stephen | Director | 2013-11-07 | Apr 1956 | British |
| WEST, Joanne | Director | 2013-04-01 | May 1971 | British |
Show 23 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASHTON, Emma Jayne | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2016-06-23 |
| BROWN, Anthony Alfred | Director | 2012-11-08 | 2014-02-28 |
| BYERS, Melanie | Director | 2017-12-08 | 2021-03-19 |
| CASSIDY, Lesley Ann | Director | 2013-11-01 | 2016-06-23 |
| CHADD, Jeremy Denis, Reverend | Director | 2012-11-08 | 2015-09-29 |
| DORAN, Helen Margaret | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2013-10-31 |
| EARL, Cuthbert Douglas | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2013-10-24 |
| FOSTER, Michael William | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| GILLIGAN, Kim, Dr | Director | 2016-06-23 | 2019-01-24 |
| GRIFFITH, Julie Lilian Marie | Director | 2012-11-08 | 2017-07-07 |
| HENDERSON, Ann Elizabeth | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2017-05-31 |
| LAKEMAN, Keith | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2016-06-23 |
| MCCULLY, Allison | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2020-02-10 |
| MCDERMOTT, Claire | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2016-06-23 |
| MCEVOY, Amanda Judith | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2016-06-23 |
| MUIZELAAR, Gayle | Director | 2015-07-14 | 2016-06-23 |
| ORD, John Robert | Director | 2021-09-09 | 2025-09-09 |
| PIZL, Tracey | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2020-02-10 |
| PORTHOUSE, John Stuart | Director | 2012-12-01 | 2018-03-14 |
| RIDLEY, Irene | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2014-01-01 |
| ROBINSON, Sharon Jane | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2014-12-16 |
| ROBSON, Moya | Director | 2013-04-01 | 2013-10-31 |
| SCRIBBINS, Elizabeth | Director | 2017-12-08 | 2022-09-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Michael William Foster | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2019-06-03 | Ceased 2020-02-10 |
| Reverend Jeremy Denis Chadd | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2019-06-03 | Ceased 2020-02-10 |
| Mr Stephen Ruffell | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2019-06-03 | Ceased 2020-02-10 |
| Mr Stephen Ruffell | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2017-09-01 | Ceased 2017-09-01 |
| Mr Robert Grierson Storey | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-07-13 | Ceased 2017-09-01 |
| Mr Michael William Foster | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-09-01 |
| Reverend Jeremy Chadd | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-09-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 100 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-03-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-11-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-04-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-02-10 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2020-02-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
-
Turnover
+12.8%
£7,727,000 £8,717,000
-
Cash
+51%
£467,000 £705,000
-
Net assets
+2.9%
£9,547,000 £9,828,000
-
Employees
-1.3%
151 149
-
Wages
+2.4%
£4,285,000 £4,387,000
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