BIG CREATIVE ACADEMY
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-28 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
-21.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£15M
+0.4% vs 2024
Employees
56
+7.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£188K
+1,102.6% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BIG CREATIVE ACADEMY 2015-03-16 → present
- DV8 ACADEMY 2012-12-17 → 2015-03-16
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 | £3,493,974 | £4,161,573 | |
| Operating profit | -£120,576 | £151,619 | |
| Profit before tax | -£18,778 | £188,273 | |
| Net profit | -£18,778 | £188,273 | |
| Cash | £1,379,362 | £1,078,064 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,841,664 | £14,857,937 | |
| Net assets | £14,803,664 | £14,857,937 | |
| Equity | £14,803,664 | £14,857,937 | |
| Average employees | 52 | 56 | |
| Wages | £1,768,823 | £1,971,244 |
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 | -3.5% | 3.6% | |
| Net margin | -0.5% | 4.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -0.8% | 1.0% | |
| Current ratio | 4.59x | 5.58x | |
| Interest cover | -40.19x | 30.32x |
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
- Menzies LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the governing body 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
- “During the academic year 2024-25, the academy was able to over recruit our steady state figure of 440 students with 480 recruited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
14 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHAW, Mark Raymond | Secretary | 2022-11-01 | — | — |
| CHALKLEY, Lee Adam | Director | 2022-07-11 | Dec 1986 | British |
| CHARLES, Sherilee | Director | 2022-11-01 | Nov 1987 | British |
| CORCORAN, Sacha | Director | 2015-09-01 | Feb 1971 | British |
| COUPE, Gisele Lucy | Director | 2026-04-16 | Apr 1969 | British |
| GREGORY, Sarah Louise | Director | 2022-07-11 | Jun 1968 | British |
| HAGELMANN, Lars | Director | 2023-02-19 | Jul 1971 | German |
| MORTON, Ian | Director | 2023-11-21 | May 1973 | British |
| SALMON, James Edward Vernon | Director | 2020-02-18 | Jun 1982 | British |
| SIMPSON, Amani Masula | Director | 2020-10-21 | Mar 1990 | British |
| SITAL-SINGH, Darren Joel | Director | 2026-03-17 | Nov 1977 | British |
| STONE, Michael John | Director | 2019-05-31 | Dec 1950 | British |
| TAYLOR, Adam | Director | 2026-04-08 | Oct 1969 | British |
| VALERY GIL, Yolanda Odette | Director | 2024-10-01 | Apr 1973 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLIER, Barnaby James | Director | 2014-07-11 | 2019-05-06 |
| DAWORAZ, Dev Kumar | Director | 2018-06-15 | 2022-10-31 |
| GAUKROGER, Joanna Mary | Director | 2013-12-05 | 2017-12-04 |
| HILTON, Benjamin James | Director | 2018-06-15 | 2019-05-07 |
| LARTEY, Lawrence Ebenezer | Director | 2012-12-17 | 2019-05-08 |
| MICHAELIDES, Alexis Sam, Managing Director | Director | 2013-07-17 | 2022-09-16 |
| OGINSKY, Paul Edward | Director | 2013-10-01 | 2017-10-11 |
| PREDDIE OBE, Chris | Director | 2019-11-23 | 2020-10-20 |
| REDDY, Elaine | Director | 2012-12-17 | 2019-05-06 |
| SRINIVASAN, Raguraman | Director | 2014-01-28 | 2019-11-13 |
| STEVENSON, Caryn | Director | 2012-12-17 | 2014-10-08 |
| TAYLOR, Adam, Mr. | Director | 2018-01-25 | 2026-03-23 |
| WARD, Tracy Ann | Director | 2022-07-11 | 2024-10-08 |
| WHITTAKER, Megan Rosemary | Director | 2013-11-01 | 2019-05-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 95 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-05-01 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-23 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2026-03-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-01 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-04-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-15 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-11-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- 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
+19.1%
£3,493,974 £4,161,573
-
Cash
-21.8%
£1,379,362 £1,078,064
-
Net assets
+0.4%
£14,803,664 £14,857,937
-
Employees
+7.7%
52 56
-
Operating profit
+225.7%
-£120,576 £151,619
-
Profit before tax
+1,102.6%
-£18,778 £188,273
-
Wages
+11.4%
£1,768,823 £1,971,244
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