FLOURISH LEARNING TRUST
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Next accounts due
2026-11-30 (in 6mo)
Last filed for 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-17 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-03
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£98K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£0
Equity attributable
Employees
200
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£49K
Period ending 2025-02-28
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- FLOURISH LEARNING TRUST 2023-07-28 → present
- FLOURISH LEARNING TRUST LTD 2023-07-20 → 2023-07-28
- WHITEFIELD ACADEMY TRUST 2014-02-06 → 2023-07-20
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-02-28
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £17,902,000 | £5,895,000 | |
| Operating profit | £421,000 | -£54,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£481,000 | -£49,000 | |
| Net profit | -£481,000 | -£18,943,000 | |
| Cash | £948,000 | £98,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £24,819,000 | £0 | |
| Net assets | £18,943,000 | £0 | |
| Equity | £18,943,000 | £0 | |
| Average employees | 326 | 200 | |
| Wages | £10,244,000 | £3,347,000 |
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 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.4% | -0.9% | |
| Net margin | -2.7% | -321.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.7% | — | |
| Current ratio | -0.62x | -1.00x | |
| Interest cover | 0.46x | — |
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
- Auditor
- Kreston Reeves LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The trust will continue to exist as a dormant entity beyond this reporting period, for a period of at least 12 months from the signing date. For this reason, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The Board made the decision during the 2023/24 academic year to transfer its schools to Learning in Harmony Multi Academy Trust, and to close Flourish Learning Trust. The transfer of schools took place on 1 January 2025.”
- “The trust will continue to exist as a dormant entity beyond this reporting period, for a period of at least 12 months from the signing date in order to receive any future litigation claims that may arise from an historic safeguarding case.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 40 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRANWELL, Philip Alex Edward | Director | 2025-04-01 | Mar 1967 | British |
| GATHER, Rupert Edinmore | Director | 2024-04-22 | May 1962 | British |
| HABBAS, Mohammad Jamil Saud | Director | 2025-04-12 | Aug 1968 | British |
Show 40 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANSONG, George | Secretary | 2014-02-06 | 2021-03-01 |
| CLARKE, Suzanne | Secretary | 2021-03-01 | 2021-11-29 |
| LAWSON, Paul | Secretary | 2021-11-29 | 2024-08-31 |
| BILSON, Rachel | Director | 2021-12-13 | 2024-04-12 |
| BURNAGE, Sarah | Director | 2023-03-29 | 2024-04-26 |
| COLQUHOUN, Elaine Mary | Director | 2014-02-06 | 2020-09-11 |
| ELLIS-STYGAL, Cathy | Director | 2023-01-09 | 2023-03-26 |
| ELLIS-STYGAL, Cathy | Director | 2022-12-13 | 2023-02-03 |
| FULTHORPE, Kirstie Louise | Director | 2020-09-15 | 2024-08-31 |
| GREEN, Melanie | Director | 2021-11-11 | 2022-01-07 |
| GREEN, Melissa | Director | 2021-12-11 | 2022-10-03 |
| GREEN, Melissa Alysia. | Director | 2021-11-11 | 2023-01-15 |
| HARVEY, Cathy | Director | 2024-05-07 | 2025-04-01 |
| HOGAN, John Charles, Dr | Director | 2014-02-10 | 2021-09-30 |
| HOPE, Sophie | Director | 2023-04-21 | 2023-10-16 |
| HOWAT, Andrew Neil | Director | 2019-09-16 | 2021-08-24 |
| HOWELL, Rachael | Director | 2024-05-07 | 2025-04-01 |
| HUTCHINSON, Louise Margaret | Director | 2015-07-13 | 2021-09-30 |
| JARVIS, Shaun | Director | 2024-04-22 | 2025-04-01 |
| JESSIE, Frances Ward | Director | 2023-11-01 | 2024-04-24 |
| KARIM, Zakir | Director | 2021-11-25 | 2024-04-11 |
| KNIGHTS, Jeannette | Director | 2021-09-29 | 2022-02-01 |
| KRAMER, Richard Leslie | Director | 2015-01-21 | 2021-07-20 |
| LAWSON, Paul | Director | 2021-11-29 | 2021-11-29 |
| LLOYD, Ken | Director | 2021-09-29 | 2023-03-24 |
| MACLAREN, Amy | Director | 2019-03-18 | 2022-09-21 |
| MEYER, John Leonard | Director | 2014-02-06 | 2017-05-16 |
| O'REGAN, Owen David | Director | 2014-02-06 | 2021-08-31 |
| PAIK, Jasvinder Singh | Director | 2019-03-18 | 2023-03-17 |
| RUSLING, Sara | Director | 2021-11-15 | 2023-07-10 |
| SAMS, Philip John, Dr | Director | 2014-11-26 | 2020-09-28 |
| SCOTT, George Rupert Hird | Director | 2022-05-13 | 2024-04-12 |
| SHANKS, Laura | Director | 2024-04-15 | 2024-04-30 |
| SHEPPARD, Caroline Diana Burnell | Director | 2014-02-06 | 2020-01-27 |
| SHRIVELL, Thomas | Director | 2024-04-12 | 2025-04-01 |
| STEEL, Daniel | Director | 2022-12-13 | 2024-03-28 |
| SWIFT, Neil Stuart | Director | 2019-09-16 | 2022-05-12 |
| TURNER, Robert David | Director | 2022-05-06 | 2024-03-19 |
| WASHINGTON, Vicki-Ann | Director | 2021-12-17 | 2023-01-11 |
| WOOD, Julian Esem | Director | 2022-05-06 | 2024-04-11 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miss Pauline Collier | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2025-04-01 | Active |
| Mr Paul William Hill | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2025-04-01 | Active |
| Richard Matthew | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2025-04-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 119 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-04 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-04 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-04 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-04-04 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-04-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-28 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2025-02-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-04 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 1
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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 2025-02-28 vs 2024-08-31