HCAT
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-25 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-11
Watchouts
Cash
£7M
+8.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£27M
+16.4% vs 2024
Employees
634
-3.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£5M
+119.3% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HCAT 2018-06-19 → present
- HOYLAND COMMON PRIMARY SCHOOL 2013-08-16 → 2018-06-19
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 | £30,779,637 | £34,330,377 | |
| Operating profit | £2,047,750 | £4,565,637 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,082,475 | £4,567,056 | |
| Net profit | £1,844,475 | £4,188,056 | |
| Cash | £6,102,745 | £6,594,397 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £23,288,893 | £27,102,288 | |
| Net assets | £23,288,893 | £27,097,949 | |
| Equity | £23,288,893 | £27,097,949 | |
| Average employees | 655 | 634 | |
| Wages | £16,957,643 | £18,639,986 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.7% | 13.3% | |
| Net margin | 6.0% | 12.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.8% | 16.8% | |
| Current ratio | 3.77x | 4.98x | |
| Interest cover | 26.17x | 33.25x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Forrester Boyd Robson Limited
- 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. Further details regarding the adoption of the going concern basis can be found in the Statement of Accounting Policies.”
Significant events
- “On 1st September 2025, five academies from the St Mary's Academy Trust (Company number - 07917752) transferred to HCAT. The five academies that transferred to the Trust were; Queens Road Academy, West Meadows Primary School, Darton Primary School, The Mill Academy and Summer Lane Primary. The operations, assets and liabilties were transferred to HCAT for £nil consideration.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 33 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WOOD, Victoria | Secretary | 2013-08-16 | — | — |
| ASTIN-FRANCE, Gemma | Director | 2025-12-08 | Dec 1983 | British |
| BAILEY, Sandra Lesley | Director | 2026-02-09 | Feb 1952 | British |
| BOWEN, Michelle | Director | 2025-10-20 | Mar 1968 | British |
| GALLAGHER, Stephen | Director | 2016-10-01 | Dec 1955 | British |
| KENT, Andrew | Director | 2016-10-01 | Jun 1953 | British |
| KNIGHT, Michael Thomas | Director | 2024-03-18 | Jan 1988 | British |
| UTLEY, Mark | Director | 2022-03-21 | May 1970 | British |
Show 33 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDREWS, James Gregory | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2016-10-01 |
| BANHAM, Thomas William | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2016-09-30 |
| BINNS, Michelle | Director | 2023-09-18 | 2025-02-10 |
| CAULFIELD, Janet Norma | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2014-02-07 |
| CLEGG, Erika | Director | 2013-12-12 | 2016-10-03 |
| DICKINSON, Ian | Director | 2021-03-15 | 2025-04-13 |
| FEARN, Adrian Mark | Director | 2019-05-20 | 2023-12-31 |
| FLANAGAN, Kerri | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2016-10-01 |
| GOSTELOW, Margaret Alexandra | Director | 2018-10-01 | 2025-09-22 |
| GREENHOFF, Wayne | Director | 2016-10-01 | 2019-03-20 |
| GREENWOOD, Anthony | Director | 2016-10-01 | 2018-03-12 |
| HASTEY, Alan | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2016-10-01 |
| HILL, Lee James | Director | 2024-06-13 | 2025-11-07 |
| HIRST, James Andrew | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2015-04-27 |
| JOHN ROSS, Melanie | Director | 2022-06-20 | 2023-12-31 |
| KILBURN, Janet Christine | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2019-05-28 |
| MANN, Lee Philip | Director | 2017-03-06 | 2019-09-02 |
| MARLOW, Clair Patricia | Director | 2013-12-12 | 2016-10-01 |
| MARSH, Dee Elizabeth, Mrs. | Director | 2016-10-01 | 2025-06-09 |
| MARSH, Margaret | Director | 2016-06-27 | 2016-10-01 |
| MITCHELL, Diane | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2013-11-19 |
| MORRIS, Trudy | Director | 2021-12-06 | 2023-12-31 |
| NIXSON, Joanne | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2019-01-29 |
| ONEILL, Ruby | Director | 2015-06-08 | 2016-10-01 |
| PADDOCK, Rebecca Louise | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2016-10-01 |
| PEET, Traci | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2015-04-27 |
| PRIESTLEY, Melanie | Director | 2019-05-20 | 2021-03-15 |
| RICHARDS, Alan James | Director | 2019-05-20 | 2025-06-09 |
| ROBINSON, Glynn David | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2014-07-07 |
| SALTER, Claire | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2014-01-20 |
| SINCLAIR, Gillian | Director | 2013-08-16 | 2014-11-25 |
| WATTS, Hannah | Director | 2015-12-07 | 2016-10-01 |
| WEBB, Chris William | Director | 2019-10-07 | 2021-03-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Susan Harrison | Individual | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2023-12-18 | Active |
| Mrs Helen Marie Bellinger | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2022-10-17 | Active |
| Mr Nick Bowen | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2021-12-13 | Active |
| Mrs Julie Brown | Individual | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2019-10-09 | Ceased 2021-03-05 |
| Mrs Sharon Ramskill | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2016-09-19 | Ceased 2023-07-01 |
| Mrs Geraldine Foster Wilson | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2016-09-19 | Active |
| Mrs Joanne Nixson | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2016-06-30 | Ceased 2019-01-29 |
| Mr James Gregory Andrews | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2016-06-30 | Ceased 2016-10-01 |
| Mrs Janet Christine Kilburn | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2016-06-30 | Ceased 2016-09-19 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 115 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-24 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-02-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-02-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-28 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-12-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-06 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-09-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-03 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-04-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 16
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 4
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
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Turnover
+11.5%
£30,779,637 £34,330,377
-
Cash
+8.1%
£6,102,745 £6,594,397
-
Net assets
+16.4%
£23,288,893 £27,097,949
-
Employees
-3.2%
655 634
-
Operating profit
+123%
£2,047,750 £4,565,637
-
Profit before tax
+119.3%
£2,082,475 £4,567,056
-
Wages
+9.9%
£16,957,643 £18,639,986
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