DURRINGTON MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

Kreston Reeves Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the Academy 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. DURRINGTON MULTI ACADEMY TRUST · parent
   1. Durrington High School 100% · England and Wales · Educational operations
   2. Laurels Primary School 100% · England and Wales · Educational operations
   3. Oak Tree Primary School 100% · England and Wales · Educational operations
   4. Ringmer Primary and Nursery School 100% · England and Wales · Educational operations

Significant events

• “Durrington High School was successful in its 2023/24 CIF bids; this follows success on a previous bid in 2021. The application was to: 1. Address the aged and obsolete electrical systems across the school and the fire alarm system. Funded value £1,700,000, Trust contribution £747,000. 2. Replacement of three boilers and the associated heating and control system. Funded value £807,000, trust contribution £345,000.”
• “Oak Tree Primary School joined DMAT in 2025, the site has suffered from many years of under investment and is in poor condition. The roof was dangerous, not watertight and in need of immediate replacement. DMAT secured £525,000 of SSICB funding towards the roof costs but have had to resolve the gap of £279,000 to ensure the project proceeded.”
• “In addition to these major projects, a continued focus on STEM subjects at Durrington High School led to the full refurbishment of three Science labs in 2024. This was a self-funded project. We hope to continue to invest in STEM subjects over the next few years.”
• “IT related risks; Cyber-attack, system failure, and the use of artificial intelligence remain as core underlying risks which in the case of cyber risk and Al are rapidly evolving. The trust capacity to understand and mitigate these risks, as well as support our school has been significantly reduced with the resignation of the DMAT Director of IT Services.”
• “Inappropriate trust growth plan (too much, too little, wrong school). Growth falls behind the agreed plan and the loss of Arunside Primary at a late stage of the academisation process has been both financially and operationally challenging.”
• “Systems and processes - ongoing payroll issues, the protracted implementation and integration of SAM People and the integration of established systems and process across the trust. This has led to a lack of consistency and centralisation, leading to reduced strategic oversight and inefficiency.”

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

Filings

13

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +69.3%

  £16,053,600 → £27,173,465

• Cash

  +22.1%

  £3,431,503 → £4,188,821

• Net assets

  +32.4%

  £32,069,369 → £42,460,264

• Employees

  +21.6%

  245 → 298

• Operating profit

  +270.3%

  £2,906,243 → £10,762,895

• Wages

  +22.4%

  £7,460,588 → £9,132,747

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