ORCHARD HILL COLLEGE ACADEMY TRUST

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  3 PSCs ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

1. ORCHARD HILL COLLEGE ACADEMY TRUST 2013-04-16 → present
2. ORCHARD HILL ACADEMY TRUST 2013-04-05 → 2013-04-16

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

Buzzacott Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Board has considered the going concern assessment which includes the principal financial uncertainties facing the Academy Trust between now and December 2026, and feels the Trust has adequately protected its position to continue operating with appropriate reserve levels for at least a 12-month period from the date of approval of this report and there are no material uncertainties in this regard.”

Significant events

• “The Trust operated 14 schools during 2024-25: 13 special academies and one alternative provision academy.”
• “Brantridge School secondary co-ed provision paused due to West Sussex County Council (WSCC) withdrawal of funding, refocusing on primary provision.”
• “No new schools joined the Trust in 2024-25. The Trust was awarded an additional free school project in Merton, due to open in September 2028.”
• “The PRIDE Academy and The Skills Hub, which reopened as free schools in 2022 and 2023 respectively, received their first inspections as new schools during the period under discussion.”
• “Carew Academy moved into its new Free School building over Easter 2025.”
• “Grafham Grange School was inspected by Ofsted in March 2024 and received a judgement of Inadequate with serious weaknesses; the school was re-brokered to London South East Academies Trust, with transfer completed on 1 September 2025.”
• “Wings Academy, Hounslow: a new 90 place special school for pupils aged 11-19 is anticipated to open in September 2027.”
• “Meadow Brook Academy, Merton: a new co-educational special school is scheduled to open in September 2028.”
• “Grafham Grange School transferred out of the Trust on 1 September 2025.”

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

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +9.4%

  £80,914,000 → £88,550,000

• Cash

  +45.4%

  £12,830,000 → £18,656,000

• Net assets

  +19%

  £138,606,000 → £164,921,000

• Employees

  +6.4%

  1,301 → 1,384

• Operating profit

  -171.5%

  -£1,939,000 → -£5,264,000

• Profit before tax

  -79.8%

  -£4,287,000 → -£7,706,000

• Wages

  +8.5%

  £42,765,000 → £46,391,000

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