COMBE PAFFORD SCHOOL
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-15 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-01
Watchouts
Cash
£795K
+66% vs 2024
Net assets
£9M
+4.7% vs 2024
Employees
132
-7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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6 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £5,674,783 | £6,023,871 | |
| Operating profit | £626,622 | £461,275 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | — | — | |
| Cash | £478,807 | £794,651 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,226,702 | £8,616,977 | |
| Net assets | £8,226,702 | £8,616,977 | |
| Equity | £8,226,702 | £8,616,977 | |
| Average employees | 142 | 132 | |
| Wages | £3,376,546 | £3,573,768 |
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 | 11.0% | 7.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.6% | 5.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.11x | 1.66x | |
| Interest cover | 156.66x | 46.13x |
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
- Griffin
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees 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.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 32 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BANFIELD, Sally | Director | 2024-09-01 | Oct 1973 | British |
| BUCK, Sarah | Director | 2024-10-11 | Jan 1953 | British |
| CLARKE, Gareth | Director | 2025-10-20 | Nov 1972 | British |
| GARSIDE, Paul | Director | 2019-04-01 | Jul 1969 | British |
| HALLWOOD, Jane | Director | 2013-03-01 | Oct 1952 | British |
| LOCK, Michael Ernest Charles | Director | 2025-12-18 | Mar 1956 | British |
Show 32 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVERY, Martin | Director | 2015-12-14 | 2024-11-29 |
| BIDDLE, Mandy | Director | 2016-09-26 | 2019-03-30 |
| BINDON, Matthew | Director | 2025-03-14 | 2026-04-27 |
| BOOSEY, Sandra Karen | Director | 2022-07-11 | 2026-02-23 |
| BORRETT, David | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2015-08-31 |
| CONNOLLY, Richard Mark | Director | 2018-12-17 | 2025-07-10 |
| COOPER, Lorna Elizabeth | Director | 2017-09-25 | 2021-08-31 |
| DANKS, Emma Louise | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2025-07-07 |
| DAVIS, Marc | Director | 2014-02-03 | 2015-05-13 |
| DOWALL, Robert | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2024-12-09 |
| DOWNS, Elizabeth Grace | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2014-10-05 |
| EMERY, Elissa Bettina | Director | 2018-09-24 | 2019-08-31 |
| GRIFFITHS, Michael David | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| HAINES, Jonathan | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2026-05-04 |
| HANBURY, Emily | Director | 2014-10-06 | 2017-08-31 |
| HUTCHINS, Peter | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2014-10-05 |
| JAMES, Nicholas | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2019-11-11 |
| LANSLEY, Monica | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2013-12-16 |
| LOCK, Michael Ernest Charles | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| MCEWAN, Jane | Director | 2014-10-06 | 2017-08-31 |
| MILLS, Kirsty | Director | 2022-07-11 | 2024-12-09 |
| MILNER, Caroline Louise | Director | 2019-09-30 | 2022-03-24 |
| MOON, Elizabeth | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| NIXON, Emma | Director | 2017-12-11 | 2019-08-31 |
| PERRYMAN, Peter | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2015-12-14 |
| REDFERN, Jackie | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2019-09-29 |
| ROBERTS, Helen | Director | 2014-07-01 | 2018-08-31 |
| SAVAGE, Robert | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2015-10-11 |
| STOTT, John Eric | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2024-10-11 |
| SWEET, Alison | Director | 2013-03-01 | 2014-02-10 |
| THORNE, Anne | Director | 2019-12-16 | 2021-12-31 |
| WAITE, Andrew | Director | 2025-10-20 | 2026-03-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 86 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-05-08 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2026-05-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 12
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 6
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
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Turnover
+6.2%
£5,674,783 £6,023,871
-
Cash
+66%
£478,807 £794,651
-
Net assets
+4.7%
£8,226,702 £8,616,977
-
Employees
-7%
142 132
-
Operating profit
-26.4%
£626,622 £461,275
-
Wages
+5.8%
£3,376,546 £3,573,768
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