MARYLEBONE SCHOOL LTD

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  Material uncertainty over going concern

  With effect from 1 February 2026, in accordance with a legal transfer of undertakings, all assets, liabilities and activities associated with Marylebone School Limited are expected to transfer to United Learning Trust. For this reason, the governors do not deem it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a basis other than going concern.

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  10 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Buzzacott Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Material uncertainty disclosed

“With effect from 1 February 2026, in accordance with a legal transfer of undertakings, all assets, liabilities and activities associated with Marylebone School Limited are expected to transfer to United Learning Trust. For this reason, the governors do not deem it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a basis other than going concern.”

Significant events

• “In August 2025 MBS received its fifth set of A Level results. There was a particularly strong performance in Economics: 68% received A*-B, Business: 61% received A*-B, Sociology: 92% received A* - C”
• “In summer 2025, with funding from Westminster Council, we developed two outdoor classrooms for our students with autism to have one-to-one counselling and to learn how to tend a garden and grow provisions such as strawberries.”
• “With effect from 1 February 2026, in accordance with a legal transfer of undertakings, all assets, liabilities and activities associated with Marylebone School Limited are expected to transfer to United Learning Trust.”
• “In November 2025 the school began a consultation to admit female students from year 7 in September 2027. The results of the consultation will be published in February 2026.”
• “The Headteacher, Richard Ardon, has announced his retirement from headship and will leave in August 2026, at the end of the 25/26 academic year.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

14

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

10

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +1.9%

  £7,779,000 → £7,925,000

• Cash

  +86%

  £523,000 → £973,000

• Net assets

  -1.6%

  £33,693,000 → £33,138,000

• Employees

  -8.5%

  94 → 86

• Operating profit

  -108.2%

  -£305,000 → -£635,000

• Profit before tax

  -94.4%

  -£287,000 → -£558,000

• Wages

  -1.4%

  £3,966,000 → £3,910,000

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