BLESSED CHRISTOPHER WHARTON CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST

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  3 PSCs 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

BHP 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, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “The Directors confirm that, as previously announced, by The Diocese of Leeds, there is a planned restructure of the Educational Trusts across the Diocese with a number of transferring and receiving trust activities planned to create two Multi Academy Trusts from the current five structure. The current plans include the transfer of The Blessed Christopher Wharton Trust into a receiving Trust and the Diocese is actively progressing with a planned merger with other Trusts to form a larger Catholic Education Trust. There is no specific date for this transaction to complete.”

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

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -1.4%

  £52,125,695 → £51,416,958

• Cash

  -19.9%

  £9,844,492 → £7,882,638

• Net assets

  +2.6%

  £12,849,490 → £13,188,973

• Employees

  +3.3%

  1,146 → 1,184

• Operating profit

  -90%

  £3,571,102 → £356,678

• Profit before tax

  -91.2%

  £3,526,950 → £309,483

• Wages

  +4.3%

  £28,452,899 → £29,668,413

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