L.E.A.D. ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-30 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£7M
-5.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£118M
+1.7% vs 2024
Employees
1,690
+5.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£801K
-93.7% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- L.E.A.D. ACADEMY TRUST 2019-01-17 → present
- L.E.A.D. MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST 2012-11-16 → 2019-01-17
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 | £80,173,000 | £85,956,000 | |
| Operating profit | £12,670,000 | £598,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £12,723,000 | £801,000 | |
| Net profit | £12,723,000 | £801,000 | |
| Cash | £7,708,000 | £7,300,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £118,950,000 | £118,309,000 | |
| Net assets | £116,316,000 | £118,309,000 | |
| Equity | £116,316,000 | £118,309,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,604 | 1,690 | |
| Wages | £46,287,000 | £50,033,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 15.8% | 0.7% | |
| Net margin | 15.9% | 0.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 10.7% | 0.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | -1.8% | -4.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.50x | 1.48x | |
| Interest cover | 109.22x | 16.61x |
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
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the L.E.A.D. Academy Trust and its subsidiary companies have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- L.E.A.D. ACADEMY TRUST · parent
- L.E.A.D. Services Limited 100%
- L.E.A.D. Teaching School Hub Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “The Trust has plans in place for further growth during the 2025/26 financial year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIRD, Louise Victoria | Secretary | 2015-09-01 | — | — |
| BLOIS, Mark Jonathan | Director | 2012-11-16 | May 1970 | British |
| BUCK, Andrew | Director | 2020-11-24 | Sep 1963 | British |
| FARRAR, Maggie | Director | 2021-12-08 | Nov 1955 | British |
| GRAHAM, Paul Richard | Director | 2018-09-01 | Jul 1971 | British |
| MCNAMARA, Helen | Director | 2019-11-29 | Nov 1978 | British |
| MYERS, Shaheen Akhtar | Director | 2025-08-04 | Oct 1976 | British |
| OWEN, Diana | Director | 2012-11-16 | May 1964 | British |
| SPICER, Christopher James | Director | 2024-03-12 | Nov 1979 | British |
| TWEEDALE, John Christopher | Director | 2025-08-04 | Dec 1956 | British |
| YDLIBI, Nicholas Abdo Rodney | Director | 2016-05-11 | Mar 1966 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWNE, Angela Margaret | Director | 2021-11-16 | 2023-03-12 |
| CHURCH, Martin | Director | 2017-03-29 | 2018-04-10 |
| EASTGATE, Anna Louise | Director | 2014-06-09 | 2015-09-22 |
| HANCOCKS, Ian | Director | 2014-11-06 | 2019-12-18 |
| HARVEY, Deryn | Director | 2012-11-16 | 2014-11-26 |
| HOBSON, John Frederick | Director | 2020-03-01 | 2022-09-07 |
| KENYON, Melvin Thomas | Director | 2016-01-20 | 2021-12-03 |
| POMEROY, Dean Stewart | Director | 2013-09-17 | 2015-03-18 |
| RICHARDS, Christopher Ernest | Director | 2012-11-16 | 2019-01-02 |
| SHRESTHA, Teresa Anne | Director | 2016-05-11 | 2018-10-04 |
| WILLIAMS, David Vaughan | Director | 2018-09-01 | 2025-07-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Toby Dominic Brodigan Salt | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2023-10-21 | Active |
| Ms Anne Elizabeth Frost | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2020-11-24 | Active |
| Mr Andrew Buck | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2020-07-23 | Ceased 2020-11-24 |
| Ms Liz Talmadge | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2018-02-06 | Ceased 2020-07-27 |
| Mr Peter John Berry | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-09-01 | Ceased 2023-10-22 |
| Mr Howard William Dowell | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-09-01 | Ceased 2019-02-04 |
| Ms Diana Owen | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-08-31 |
| Mr Mark Blois | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-08-31 |
| Mrs Deryn Harvey | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 82 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-11-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-11-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-11-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-07 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-11-07 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-11-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-02-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-12-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-12-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-11-29 | 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
- 2
- 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
+7.2%
£80,173,000 £85,956,000
-
Cash
-5.3%
£7,708,000 £7,300,000
-
Net assets
+1.7%
£116,316,000 £118,309,000
-
Employees
+5.4%
1,604 1,690
-
Operating profit
-95.3%
£12,670,000 £598,000
-
Profit before tax
-93.7%
£12,723,000 £801,000
-
Wages
+8.1%
£46,287,000 £50,033,000
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