CATALYST ACADEMIES TRUST

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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

MWS Accountants Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the academy 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.”

Significant events

• “The trust decided to re-structure the entire organisation. This process was completed in July 2024 and was in place for 1st September 2024.”
• “The appointment of a Chief Executive Officer has meant that there is clear strategic direction for the Executive headteacher / Head of School at each of the Academies.”
• “The Trust has also appointed two Executive Headteachers.”
• “The team have successfully co-ordinated shared learning events between the five academies, and these have proven highly successful and impacted positively on all stakeholders.”
• “Benyon Primary School: School still through expansion and will be full 2 form entry school and expanding provision to cater for 2-year-olds from Spring 2026.”
• “Somers Heath Primary: The school has begun plans. to extend its nursery offer and is currently planning to refurbish its old site manager bungalow to house its nursery provision.”
• “Quarry Hill Academy has applied for CIF funding to repair the subsiding playground and collapsed drains on its Dell Road site.”
• “Aveley Primary has applied for CIF funding to replace the roof on its KS1 block due to a leak causing damage to the underfloor area in two classrooms.”
• “All schools expanded pupil numbers in KS2 classes and after consultation have increased PAN from 30 to 32 per class.”
• “used the DfE's energy grants to invest in solar panels on all schools. After these successful solar projects, two schools have extended their solar arrays this year with further expansions planned in 2025/26.”
• “To support employees with EVs four Trust schools have accessed grants for EV charging points.”
• “The Trust is in the process of assessing whether a swimming pool for Trust and community use is feasible.”

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

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  +7.7%

  £3,671,162 → £3,954,544

• Net assets

  +2.6%

  £24,849,238 → £25,504,439

• Employees

  +1.3%

  316 → 320

• Profit before tax

  -11.5%

  £1,179,437 → £1,044,201

• Wages

  +10.3%

  £8,086,489 → £8,918,302

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