EPWORTH EDUCATION TRUST

1. EPWORTH EDUCATION TRUST 2020-10-26 → present
2. ACORN TRUST 2013-08-05 → 2020-10-26

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

Cooper Parry Group Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries and reviewing the 3 year budget, 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, the Board of Trustees continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the accounts.”

Significant events

• “On 1 February 2024, Bakewell Methodist Academy became an academy as part of an academy order and joined the Epworth Education Trust (as its sponsor).”
• “On 1 April 2024 Leyland Methodist Infant School joined the Trust as a convertor academy and commenced its activities on transfer on the Local Authority on the conversion date stated above.”
• “On 1 April 2024 Leyland Methodist Junior School joined the Trust as a convertor academy and commenced its activities on transfer on the Local Authority on the conversion date stated above.”
• “On 1 April 2024 Wheatley Lane Methodist Primary School joined the Trust as a convertor academy and commenced its activities on transfer on the Local Authority on the conversion date stated above.”
• “On 1 May 2024 Hey-with-Zion Primary School joined the Trust as a convertor academy and commenced its activities on transfer on the Local Authority on the conversion date stated above.”

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

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

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

  +37.7%

  £12,407,174 → £17,085,092

• Cash

  +130.8%

  £1,520,964 → £3,509,848

• Net assets

  +5.8%

  £24,581,890 → £26,015,471

• Employees

  +1.5%

  333 → 338

• Wages

  +34.6%

  £7,035,806 → £9,468,951

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