HORIZONS SPECIALIST ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-26 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
+48.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£40M
+30.2% vs 2024
Employees
534
+3.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
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 | £24,902,142 | £37,558,499 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£132,974 | £8,665,457 | |
| Cash | £4,116,659 | £6,102,929 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £30,865,392 | £39,611,849 | |
| Net assets | £30,426,392 | £39,604,849 | |
| Equity | £30,426,392 | £39,604,849 | |
| Average employees | 517 | 534 | |
| Wages | £14,835,776 | £16,838,956 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -0.5% | 23.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 8.1% | 8.1% | |
| Current ratio | 2.89x | 2.48x |
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
- Azets Audit Services
- 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 addition of The Meadows Academy in February 2025 brings the number of academies within HSAT to 8. Given the positive outcome of the MATSE in September 2022 and subsequent outcomes of the Trust's academies Ofsted Inspections, it is recognised that HSAT is in a strong position to grow and develop as a MAT.”
- “The successful application from the Trust to open a Specialist Free School in Middlesbrough for primary-aged children with neurodiverse conditions is further confirmation of HSAT's readiness for further expansion. However, the development of the Special Free School has been placed on hold by the Government.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASCOUGH, Alison Ruth | Secretary | 2013-09-19 | — | — |
| HORN, Christopher | Director | 2025-02-01 | Sep 1967 | British |
| JONES, Maurice Davison | Director | 2013-07-12 | Jan 1947 | British |
| NEW, David | Director | 2021-09-01 | Jul 1966 | British |
| SINHA, Baxi Neeraj Prasad | Director | 2014-12-16 | Sep 1972 | British |
| THOMPSON, Alastair James | Director | 2024-10-01 | Apr 1976 | British |
| WALKER, David | Director | 2019-09-01 | May 1954 | British |
| WARD, Anna Jane | Director | 2022-10-03 | Dec 1970 | British |
| WHITTAKER, Colin James | Director | 2013-07-12 | Dec 1946 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARROWSMITH, Margaret | Director | 2013-07-12 | 2015-02-17 |
| BARKER, Graham Michael | Director | 2013-07-12 | 2016-08-03 |
| BROMILEY, James | Director | 2015-05-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| CHAPMAN, Alan Carr | Director | 2014-10-08 | 2015-12-17 |
| DAVISON, Sharon | Director | 2013-07-12 | 2017-07-11 |
| DYSON, Helen | Director | 2015-03-02 | 2019-12-31 |
| EVANS, Deborah | Director | 2013-07-12 | 2013-12-09 |
| HORNE, Elizabeth Anne | Director | 2013-07-12 | 2025-12-31 |
| HUNTER, Michael John | Director | 2013-07-12 | 2014-07-25 |
| LAIDLER, Linda | Director | 2013-07-12 | 2021-07-11 |
| NICHOLLS, Rosemary | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2024-02-07 |
| RICHARDSON, Susan | Director | 2016-07-18 | 2020-12-07 |
| WATT, Bridget Mary Elizabeth | Director | 2025-03-03 | 2026-03-30 |
| WILSON, Siân | Director | 2018-04-30 | 2022-04-22 |
| YATES, Barbara | Director | 2014-01-31 | 2014-12-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice Davison Jones | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2017-07-07 | Ceased 2017-09-01 |
| Martin Clinton | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-09-01 |
| Dame Dela Smith | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-09-01 |
| Colin James Whittaker | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-07-07 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 80 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-13 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2024-02-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-07-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-07-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
-
Turnover
+50.8%
£24,902,142 £37,558,499
-
Cash
+48.2%
£4,116,659 £6,102,929
-
Net assets
+30.2%
£30,426,392 £39,604,849
-
Employees
+3.3%
517 534
-
Wages
+13.5%
£14,835,776 £16,838,956
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