YOUTH ENGAGEMENT SCHOOLS TRUST

1. YOUTH ENGAGEMENT SCHOOLS TRUST 2018-07-12 → present
2. EAST CHESHIRE YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT FREE SCHOOL LTD 2013-12-30 → 2018-07-12

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

Murray Smith LLP

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.”

Group structure

1. YOUTH ENGAGEMENT SCHOOLS TRUST · parent
   1. Cornerstone Alternative Education Ltd 100% · England and Wales · alternative education provision for vulnerable young people

Significant events

• “During the 2024-2025 academic year the Trust was delighted to open its latest brand-new SEN Free School, The Raise Academy. The school opened with 36 pupils, and 20 new staff.”
• “The Trust was also able to welcome their first convertor Academies during the financial year ending 31.08.2025, with 3 PRU's converting to Academy status and joining the Trust on 1st December 2024. These Alternative Provision Academies have all been renamed to; The Vireo Academy; The Kairos Academy (KS3); and The Kairos Academy (KS4).”
• “The central team has also been working on its other ongoing academy conversion project - Ridgewood Community High School. Unfortunately delays due to various PFI contract issues and legal wranglings, have meant that this project has hit pause.”
• “In terms of further Free School growth, the Trust was delighted to have been awarded two brand new Free Schools in the latest wave of AP Schools announced in Spring 2024. However, since the new government came in to power in 2024, the Trust has heard nothing more of these schools and there is a concern that both schools will be closed before they are opened.”

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

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +99.5%

  £7,763,878 → £15,488,163

• Cash

  +514.5%

  £404,561 → £2,486,047

• Net assets

  +60.3%

  £29,849,048 → £47,841,416

• Employees

  +85.9%

  135 → 251

• Operating profit

  +51.9%

  £310,556 → £471,855

• Profit before tax

  +21%

  £278,390 → £336,762

• Wages

  +111.2%

  £3,778,521 → £7,979,158

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