OLIVE ACADEMIES
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-07 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-24
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+83.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£20M
+45.6% vs 2024
Employees
118
+18% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£60K
+372.7% vs 2024
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 | £9,188,000 | £11,057,000 | |
| Operating profit | £90,000 | £106,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£22,000 | £60,000 | |
| Net profit | £309,000 | £6,557,000 | |
| Cash | £1,210,000 | £2,225,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,083,000 | £20,464,000 | |
| Net assets | £14,054,000 | £20,458,000 | |
| Equity | £14,054,000 | £20,458,000 | |
| Average employees | 100 | 118 | |
| Wages | £4,803,000 | £5,787,000 |
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 | 1.0% | 1.0% | |
| Net margin | 3.4% | 59.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.6% | 0.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 5.9% | 9.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.98x | 2.71x | |
| Interest cover | 0.78x | 2.12x |
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
- Buzzacott Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the board has a reasonable expectation that the academy 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
- OLIVE ACADEMIES · parent
- Olive Academies Independent Schools 100%
Significant events
- “Two Bridges Tunbridge Wells became Olive Academy Tunbridge Wells (OA-TW) on 1st June 2025.”
- “On 1 June 2025 Two Bridges School converted to academy status.”
- “Olive Academies Independent Schools (OAIS)... became a subsidiary of Olive Academies on 2 September 2025.”
- “OA - North View, has now been added to the Register of Independent Schools on 24 November 2025 as an independent special school.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, Matthew Ian | Director | 2023-10-02 | May 1972 | English,Australian |
| DICKENSON, Andrew Charles | Director | 2024-12-11 | Oct 1968 | British |
| JAMES, Kingsley | Director | 2015-11-17 | Apr 1967 | British |
| KNOX-MACAULAY, Huxley Edward Farrell | Director | 2024-07-03 | Jun 1963 | British |
| LEEKE, Rosemary Ann | Director | 2016-09-28 | May 1956 | British |
| LOWE, Jeanette Anne | Director | 2019-10-15 | May 1964 | British |
| NEHME-PATSALOS, Maria | Director | 2020-01-29 | Nov 1980 | British |
| SHUKLA, Deepa Harshadrai, Dr | Director | 2025-04-02 | Jun 1981 | British |
| WHALL, Philip Alan | Director | 2013-10-24 | Nov 1966 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, Arwyn Rhys | Secretary | 2013-10-24 | 2019-01-31 |
| CAMPBELL, Janette Elizabeth | Director | 2013-10-24 | 2021-10-24 |
| DARWOOD, Lisa | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2025-09-01 |
| FITZGERALD, Katherine Mary | Director | 2020-01-29 | 2023-10-10 |
| GENTLES, Marie | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2021-11-26 |
| SEDDON, Alexander Edward | Director | 2015-10-03 | 2024-07-03 |
| TEMPANY, Angela | Director | 2022-04-26 | 2024-12-11 |
| WEST-BURNHAM, John Haydn | Director | 2013-10-24 | 2019-01-30 |
| WILLIAMS, Amanda Elizabeth Watkin | Director | 2013-10-24 | 2021-10-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 57 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-02-11 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-08 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-12-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-11-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-11 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-01-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
+20.3%
£9,188,000 £11,057,000
-
Cash
+83.9%
£1,210,000 £2,225,000
-
Net assets
+45.6%
£14,054,000 £20,458,000
-
Employees
+18%
100 118
-
Operating profit
+17.8%
£90,000 £106,000
-
Profit before tax
+372.7%
-£22,000 £60,000
-
Wages
+20.5%
£4,803,000 £5,787,000
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