ASPIRE MULTI - ACADEMY TRUST

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  1 PSC ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

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

Streets Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Aspire MAT 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

• “A new converter academy, Muskham Primary School is scheduled to join Aspire on 1 September 2025.”
• “The eight academies have a combined pupil capacity of 1,771 and had 1,455 on roll (1,531 including nursery places) on 5 October 2024.”
• “After two years of preliminary discussions, the Trust Board have reached an agreement in principle for another trust, The Shine Multi-Academy Trust, to merge into Aspire, retaining Aspire as the receiving trust for the six non-church primary schools in Shine...A formal application for the merger was submitted to the DfE in June 2025, with a positive outcome received in October. The target for the merger is spring 2026.”
• “Two Church of England primary schools have expressed a strong interest in joining Aspire but are currently hindered by the Government's removal of the £25,000 academy conversion grant. The trust is looking to support these schools through a different arrangement until a pathway for academisation can be identified.”
• “Currently there are two Local Authority schools who are interested in joining the Trust and growth is expected in 2025/26. Underwood CofE Primary School and Christ Church CofE Primary School have both expressed an interest in becoming part of Aspire and we are developing an associate membership style agreement with both schools.”
• “The Trust is collaborating with Langar C of E Primary School to implement a recovery plan aimed at returning the school to a surplus position.”

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

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

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

  +2.1%

  £10,407,010 → £10,626,199

• Cash

  -32.4%

  £3,076,455 → £2,078,711

• Net assets

  +5.6%

  £19,379,694 → £20,456,895

• Employees

  -2.9%

  272 → 264

• Operating profit

  +9.7%

  -£183,469 → -£165,646

• Profit before tax

  -51.6%

  £1,684,705 → £816,201

• Wages

  +1.4%

  £6,223,434 → £6,307,658

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