HARTLEPOOL ASPIRE 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

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Azets Audit Services

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.”

Group structure

1. HARTLEPOOL ASPIRE TRUST · parent
   1. Catcote Futures 100% · United Kingdom · educational resource for students age 19 and beyond

Significant events

• “An action plan has been developed following an external growth review, which will inform the three-year strategic plan.”
• “The CPD programme has been further enhanced to ensure it is fully responsive to trust priorities, quality assurance insights, individual profiles, and emerging needs of new and existing students.”
• “A comprehensive wellbeing strategy has been established following a review of the Trust's People Strategy.”
• “The Careers and Enterprise programme has been successfully embedded across the Yellow and Blue pathways.”
• “Significant progress has been made in embedding streamlined systems to improve operational consistency. Online purchasing and digital approvals are reducing manual processes and improving efficiency.”
• “An enhanced MIS system is now in place to manage staff and student data and a new HR system is ready for implementation.”
• “The refurbishment programme is nearing completion, with several teaching spaces and hygiene areas upgraded to a high standard throughout the year.”

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

0

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

  +7.4%

  £7,988,073 → £8,576,551

• Cash

  -16.2%

  £1,591,810 → £1,334,666

• Net assets

  -0.9%

  £7,596,503 → £7,529,466

• Employees

  +5.5%

  200 → 211

• Profit before tax

  -68.4%

  £293,757 → £92,963

• Wages

  +4.3%

  £4,967,023 → £5,181,721

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