AMBITIOUS ABOUT AUTISM SCHOOLS TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-23 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£658K
-10.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£11M
+1.9% vs 2024
Employees
143
+7.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£395K
+3.4% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- AMBITIOUS ABOUT AUTISM SCHOOLS TRUST 2017-03-24 → present
- AUTISM SCHOOLS TRUST 2012-12-18 → 2017-03-24
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 | £8,148,000 | £9,628,000 | |
| Operating profit | £382,000 | £395,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £382,000 | £395,000 | |
| Net profit | £382,000 | £395,000 | |
| Cash | £732,000 | £658,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,116,000 | £11,323,000 | |
| Net assets | £11,116,000 | £11,323,000 | |
| Equity | £11,116,000 | £11,323,000 | |
| Average employees | 133 | 143 | |
| Wages | £4,019,000 | £4,823,000 |
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 | 4.7% | 4.1% | |
| Net margin | 4.7% | 4.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.4% | 3.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 24.3% | 25.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.35x | 2.29x |
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
- Crowe UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the trustees have 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
- “Spring School opened in September 2023 in a temporary site in Norbiton, with the intention for the permanent site to be ready for 2027.”
- “The Trust continued to work with the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames and the Department for Education (DfE) to finish the build of Spring School at the Moor Lane Centre in Chessington.”
- “The Trust's activities in the year were focused on continuing to provide high-quality education, as well as the expansion of the Trust through the opening of a new free school, the Spring School.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 28 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAYLOR, Lindsay | Secretary | 2025-08-01 | — | — |
| BISHOP, Robert Ludo James | Director | 2024-11-01 | Jul 1970 | Canadian |
| BUXTON, Angela Margaret | Director | 2023-12-08 | Jun 1973 | British |
| CLARK, Michael Andrew | Director | 2019-10-07 | Feb 1973 | British |
| FAWCETT, Mary Elizabeth | Director | 2023-09-01 | Jun 1953 | British |
| FORBES, Andrew Fraser | Director | 2024-07-19 | Mar 1955 | British |
| GUTIERREZ-GARCIA, Eduardo | Director | 2023-07-22 | Nov 1967 | British |
| JEFFRIES, Helen | Director | 2022-12-09 | Apr 1977 | British |
| KLEIN, Anastasia | Director | 2024-03-22 | Oct 1978 | British |
| O'KELLY, Mark Charles | Director | 2023-06-02 | Nov 1960 | British |
| PALMER, Laura | Director | 2021-12-10 | Apr 1984 | British |
Show 28 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRECKELL, Paul Anthony | Secretary | 2025-03-14 | 2025-07-31 |
| BRECKELL, Paul | Secretary | 2021-10-09 | 2023-09-01 |
| BRECKELL, Paul | Secretary | 2018-08-31 | 2019-09-10 |
| FLETCHER, Jacqueline Linda | Secretary | 2013-04-08 | 2017-03-31 |
| HONEYSETT, Louise Mary | Secretary | 2022-03-25 | 2025-03-14 |
| POSOCCO, Louise | Secretary | 2017-09-01 | 2021-10-08 |
| ANDERSON, Koral | Director | 2019-12-13 | 2021-01-01 |
| BAKER, Helen Mary | Director | 2013-06-07 | 2017-04-01 |
| CONSTANTINE, John Lupton | Director | 2012-12-18 | 2015-07-27 |
| DISLEY-TINDELL, Paul | Director | 2021-12-10 | 2022-07-22 |
| DODGE, Tanith Claire | Director | 2019-10-07 | 2022-03-03 |
| GOULDEN, Neil Geoffrey | Director | 2015-09-28 | 2024-12-13 |
| HEALEY, Joanna | Director | 2015-11-23 | 2024-12-13 |
| HOPKINS, Lisa | Director | 2012-12-18 | 2015-09-28 |
| LASOTA, Jolanta | Director | 2012-12-18 | 2020-04-20 |
| LONGSTONE, Lesley Carol | Director | 2017-04-01 | 2023-07-21 |
| LUSK, Andrew Scott | Director | 2012-12-18 | 2013-07-01 |
| MORHALL, Isabelle Marie-Noelle | Director | 2015-01-19 | 2015-11-02 |
| NUTT, Jennifer Lucy Alison | Director | 2015-06-29 | 2024-07-19 |
| O'BRIEN, Kevin | Director | 2013-07-05 | 2014-03-26 |
| OAKHILL, Kevin Robert | Director | 2015-06-29 | 2017-06-30 |
| PAULSON, Mark Ellis | Director | 2012-12-18 | 2019-04-26 |
| PINK, Nigel James | Director | 2012-12-18 | 2013-05-14 |
| PUNSHON, Matthew Guy | Director | 2013-06-07 | 2015-03-23 |
| SCOWN, Stephen Wayne | Director | 2012-12-18 | 2017-04-01 |
| STANTON, Elizabeth | Director | 2017-04-01 | 2023-09-01 |
| TANGRI, Kumar | Director | 2021-12-10 | 2023-03-24 |
| WARNER, Charlotte Emma | Director | 2012-12-18 | 2021-12-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambitious About Autism | Corporate entity | Voting 75–100%, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2017-04-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 106 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-19 | AAMD | accounts | Accounts amended with accounts type full | |
| 2026-02-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-11 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-08-11 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-26 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-03-26 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-01 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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
+18.2%
£8,148,000 £9,628,000
-
Cash
-10.1%
£732,000 £658,000
-
Net assets
+1.9%
£11,116,000 £11,323,000
-
Employees
+7.5%
133 143
-
Operating profit
+3.4%
£382,000 £395,000
-
Profit before tax
+3.4%
£382,000 £395,000
-
Wages
+20%
£4,019,000 £4,823,000
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