THE SPECIALIST EDUCATION TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-20 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-06
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+1.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£4M
+14.6% vs 2024
Employees
31
-3.1% 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 | £2,104,378 | £2,503,521 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£168,075 | £198,623 | |
| Cash | £2,349,711 | £2,380,622 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,256,862 | £4,451,485 | |
| Net assets | £3,885,862 | £4,451,485 | |
| Equity | £3,885,862 | £4,451,485 | |
| Average employees | 32 | 31 | |
| Wages | £1,133,642 | £1,129,200 |
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 | -8.0% | 7.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 12.2% | 4.0% | |
| Current ratio | 14.22x | 14.04x |
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
- UHY Hacker Young LLP
- 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.”
Significant events
- “Littledown Special School was inspected by OfSTED in April 2025. Evidence gathered during this ungraded (section 8) inspection suggests that aspects of the school's work may not be as strong as at the time of the previous inspection. The school's next inspection will be a graded inspection.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D'SOUZA, Sandra | Secretary | 2023-06-29 | — | — |
| GARNER, John Frederick | Director | 2023-10-09 | Mar 1969 | British |
| MUMFORD, Angela Jayne | Director | 2020-07-01 | Nov 1975 | British |
| RICHARDS, Deborah Jane | Director | 2017-10-05 | Dec 1959 | British |
| THORPE, Hazel Gillian | Director | 2013-07-15 | Dec 1957 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAKE, Rosemary | Secretary | 2016-07-21 | 2023-02-10 |
| MURRAY, Helen | Secretary | 2016-01-14 | 2016-07-21 |
| BROWN, Alan Robert | Director | 2013-07-15 | 2014-07-16 |
| COVENTRY, Ian | Director | 2016-01-14 | 2017-07-11 |
| HESTER, Elizabeth Arina | Director | 2016-01-14 | 2020-11-08 |
| HUNTLEY, Helen | Director | 2013-07-15 | 2016-01-14 |
| KERR, Paul | Director | 2016-07-21 | 2023-08-31 |
| KERR, Paul Douglas | Director | 2013-07-15 | 2015-10-13 |
| KING-HARRIS, Julian | Director | 2013-07-15 | 2014-06-24 |
| MATTHEWS, Joanne | Director | 2013-07-15 | 2022-07-14 |
| ROCKALL, Joanne | Director | 2014-09-17 | 2016-01-14 |
| TOTTINGHAM, David | Director | 2014-09-17 | 2016-01-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 54 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-01-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-10 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-06 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-19 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2021-01-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-11-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2020-11-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
+19%
£2,104,378 £2,503,521
-
Cash
+1.3%
£2,349,711 £2,380,622
-
Net assets
+14.6%
£3,885,862 £4,451,485
-
Employees
-3.1%
32 31
-
Wages
-0.4%
£1,133,642 £1,129,200
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