THE HARMONY TRUST LTD
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-14 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-30
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
+18.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£93M
+23% vs 2024
Employees
828
+12.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £35,176,839 | £41,035,305 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£1,604,585 | £18,117,143 | |
| Cash | £1,949,659 | £2,317,414 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £76,583,201 | £93,424,115 | |
| Net assets | £75,983,972 | £93,424,115 | |
| Equity | £75,983,972 | £93,424,115 | |
| Average employees | 735 | 828 | |
| Wages | £20,070,246 | £23,420,713 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -4.6% | 44.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.61x | 1.25x |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- 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
- THE HARMONY TRUST LTD · parent
- Harmony Trading Services Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Trust has entered into significant commissioning arrangements with Local Authorities in Derby, Oldham, and Tameside for the delivery of Inclusion Hubs.”
- “The Trust has also substantially expanded further its provision of early years education, including for children under 3.”
- “Harmony Trading Services ceased trading for the purpose of providing meals to Academies in November 2024.”
- “The Trust managed a major procurement exercise for the external delivery of catering and cleaning services.”
- “The Trust has successfully implemented a new delivery partnership with Teach First to run an Initial Teaching Training programme.”
- “On 1 March 2025 Norden Primary Academy converted to academy trust status.”
- “On 1 April 2025 Spotland Primary Academy converted to academy trust status.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 26 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COSTELLO, Sharon | Secretary | 2020-07-06 | — | — |
| BALDERSTONE, Jane Allison | Director | 2025-11-01 | Feb 1981 | British |
| JAY, Timothy Mark Harvey | Director | 2025-02-01 | Nov 1978 | British |
| KAY, Gillian Ann | Director | 2025-11-01 | Apr 1973 | British |
| KEMPTON, Barry James | Director | 2025-11-01 | Sep 1960 | British |
| LITTLEY, Rachael Anthea | Director | 2025-02-01 | Jul 1982 | Maltese |
| MCCULLY, Andrew John | Director | 2023-11-29 | Nov 1963 | British |
| ROBINSON, Ian | Director | 2020-05-11 | Jan 1979 | British |
| SALEH, Nadia | Director | 2023-06-20 | Apr 1987 | British |
| SMYTHE, Olwyn | Director | 2019-05-13 | Nov 1962 | British |
| WILLIS, Stuart | Director | 2025-02-01 | Mar 1953 | British |
Show 26 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMPSON, Suzanne Angela | Secretary | 2015-01-26 | 2020-07-06 |
| ACADEMISE UK LTD | Corporate Secretary | 2017-08-11 | 2018-11-01 |
| AHMAD, Riaz | Director | 2014-01-10 | 2017-08-31 |
| BAKHT, Sajen | Director | 2014-03-21 | 2022-07-05 |
| BASHIR, Sara | Director | 2017-09-18 | 2019-11-25 |
| CAIRNS, Helen | Director | 2022-11-28 | 2024-07-15 |
| FARMER, Emma Louise | Director | 2020-07-20 | 2022-12-31 |
| FLYNN, Ben Edward | Director | 2022-07-13 | 2024-09-27 |
| FORBES, Ashley | Director | 2017-09-18 | 2021-09-11 |
| HAWKINS, Sandy Patricia | Director | 2014-02-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| HOLE, Norman | Director | 2017-09-18 | 2023-07-12 |
| HOPWOOD, Sian | Director | 2021-11-17 | 2022-06-16 |
| HUGHES, Antony Paul | Director | 2014-01-10 | 2019-03-11 |
| IQBAL, Beenash | Director | 2023-04-24 | 2024-07-15 |
| LANT, Angela | Director | 2021-11-29 | 2025-11-28 |
| LAWRENCE, Jayne | Director | 2016-06-13 | 2017-06-19 |
| MAKIN, Paul Anthony | Director | 2016-06-13 | 2020-07-06 |
| MCCORMICK, Kevin Ian | Director | 2014-02-07 | 2017-02-06 |
| MCGUFFIE, Graham William | Director | 2017-09-18 | 2025-09-11 |
| MELLOR, Tracey | Director | 2014-10-17 | 2016-07-12 |
| MOULDEN, Philip | Director | 2019-03-11 | 2021-06-28 |
| PARKER, Michael Henry | Director | 2014-01-10 | 2017-06-22 |
| SIMMONS, Marian Evelyn | Director | 2014-01-10 | 2020-05-12 |
| SMITH, Steven John | Director | 2014-10-17 | 2017-08-31 |
| THORNE, Christopher | Director | 2018-01-05 | 2025-12-02 |
| WEINSTOCK, Anne Josephine | Director | 2018-12-01 | 2023-11-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 103 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-05-18 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-05-18 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-04-15 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-12-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-18 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-05-18 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
+16.7%
£35,176,839 £41,035,305
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Cash
+18.9%
£1,949,659 £2,317,414
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Net assets
+23%
£75,983,972 £93,424,115
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Employees
+12.7%
735 828
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Wages
+16.7%
£20,070,246 £23,420,713
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