RICHARD HALE SCHOOL

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  4 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

Price Bailey 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, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “The Articles of Association were amended on 14 July 2025 to reflect the latest guidance from the DfE.”
• “Former Chair of Governors, Barbara Holm, left the Governing Body in October 2024 and was thanked for her enormous contribution to the school.”
• “Also departing the Board during the year were Susan Brooks, Roger Gambles and Vice-Chair, Louise Riley. In line with the new Articles of Association, they were replaced by Rachael Adler and Maxine Webb.”
• “Also during the year, Staff Trustees were appointed and the resigned in line with the new Articles of Association which were approved by the DfE and adopted in August 2025.”
• “These bids for CIF funding were, disappointingly, unsuccessful in 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 and the inconsistency in the marking process is concerning. We need to continue to focus on securing funds for this refurbishment.”
• “Due to a change in actuarial assumptions the Local Government Pension Scheme valuation has increased from a deficit position of £537,000 to an asset position of £334,000. This does not result in any reduction in contributions or repayments to the Academy and therefore an asset ceilling of £334,000 calculated by the actuary has resulted in a value of £NIL being recognised in these financial statements (2024 deficit of £537,000).”

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

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +6.6%

  £8,786,106 → £9,365,152

• Cash

  +1.7%

  £1,111,461 → £1,130,818

• Net assets

  +2.2%

  £17,214,689 → £17,588,118

• Employees

  +1.7%

  121 → 123

• Profit before tax

  +2.3%

  -£156,166 → -£152,571

• Wages

  +7.8%

  £4,929,378 → £5,311,544

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