THE GOOD SHEPHERD TRUST

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

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 trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. THE GOOD SHEPHERD TRUST · parent
   1. The Good Shepherd Trust Services Limited 1% · Provision of services to Church schools and academies

Significant events

• “St Pauls CofE Primary School (Dorking) joined the trust on 1 November 2024”
• “Eight schools were inspected by Ofsted during the academic year 2024-25: Ottershaw Infant School (Sept 2024), St Mary's Church of England Primary School (Nov 2024), Waverley Abbey Church of England Junior School (Oct 2024), Valley End Church of England Infant School (Dec 2024), Farnborough Grange Nursery & Infant Community School (Jan 2025), Ottershaw Junior School (April 2025), St Andrew's Church of England Infant School (June 2025), Surrey Hills All Saints Primary School (July 2025).”
• “The Trust received total income of £47,849,000 and incurred total expenditure of £45,723,000 giving a total of income over expenditure of £2,126,000 of which £1,950,000 relates to land transferred on conversion.”
• “The LGPS liability has decreased to £Nil (2024 - £1,903,000) driven by movements in the discount rate, general inflation, and increases in the salary and pension rates.”

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

Filings

10

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

6

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +19.7%

  £39,983,000 → £47,849,000

• Cash

  +7.4%

  £4,884,000 → £5,247,000

• Net assets

  +51.3%

  £8,532,000 → £12,905,000

• Employees

  +13%

  879 → 993

• Wages

  +15.3%

  £21,385,000 → £24,654,000

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