WITHINGTON GIRLS' SCHOOL
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-20 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-06
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
+147.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£15M
+0.5% vs 2023
Employees
148
-2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-08-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £8,540,951 | £9,299,166 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£266,796 | £41,891 | |
| Cash | £1,849,569 | £4,570,724 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,898,559 | £14,900,859 | |
| Net assets | £14,707,455 | £14,775,777 | |
| Equity | £14,707,455 | £14,775,777 | |
| Average employees | 151 | 148 | |
| Wages | £5,418,525 | £5,906,866 |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -3.1% | 0.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.53x | 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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Governors and the Senior Leadership Team consider that the School is a Going Concern and is able to meet its obligations as they fall due.”
Significant events
- “The main school boilers have been replaced and the Food and Nutrition room has been completely refurbished.”
- “The School has completed an upgrade to the Wi-Fi system, and the replacement of hardware continues on its normal cycle. The School has completed a new website, launched in the Summer Term...”
- “Philanthropic income totaled £617,461 in the year to 31 August 2024 which marks a near doubling from the previous year. This was largely due to a legacy bequest of over £282,000 from the husband of a former Withington pupil.”
- “We held Withington's second Giving Day in March 2024...we raised more than £84,000 for the Marjorie Hulme Bursary Fund...”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
14 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CROSS, Carl | Secretary | 2025-05-01 | — | — |
| ALLRED, Jane Patricia, Dr | Director | 2015-08-31 | Nov 1953 | British |
| CHICKEN, Andrew Hamilton | Director | 2018-09-01 | Jun 1960 | British |
| GRIFFIN, Martin James | Director | 2021-06-14 | May 1961 | British |
| HAWKINS, Diane Mary | Director | 2017-09-01 | Dec 1956 | British |
| LEIGH, David, Professor | Director | 2020-01-13 | May 1963 | British |
| MAYNARD-ATEM, Louise, Dr | Director | 2022-12-12 | Jan 1986 | British |
| PATHAK, Ashvin Rao | Director | 2015-08-31 | Sep 1950 | British |
| PIKE, Malcolm John | Director | 2014-06-12 | Aug 1959 | British |
| POSTON, Christopher Michael | Director | 2019-08-28 | Jan 1967 | British |
| SINCLAIR, Howard Philip | Director | 2015-08-31 | Dec 1958 | British |
| STUFFINS, Sally Jane | Director | 2018-01-05 | Nov 1979 | British |
| TANNA, Shivani, Dr | Director | 2026-01-01 | Oct 1981 | British |
| TOREVELL, Martyn Philip | Director | 2023-03-23 | Feb 1967 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COHEN, Anna Catherine | Secretary | 2021-09-01 | 2025-05-01 |
| SENN, Sharon | Secretary | 2014-06-12 | 2021-08-31 |
| ADLESTONE, Mark Isaac | Director | 2015-08-31 | 2020-11-23 |
| BYROM, Gwen Marie | Director | 2016-09-21 | 2018-08-31 |
| DEV-JAIRATH, Rashmi, Dr | Director | 2020-09-01 | 2025-06-09 |
| EL-GHONEMY, Malak | Director | 2020-01-13 | 2022-05-22 |
| EVANS, Carole Haldora | Director | 2015-08-31 | 2016-05-13 |
| FURBER, Stephen Byram | Director | 2015-08-31 | 2017-06-19 |
| GRIGORIEVA, Irina, Professor | Director | 2017-09-27 | 2019-08-30 |
| ILLINGWORTH, David Jeremy | Director | 2014-06-12 | 2019-08-30 |
| JOHNSON MANNING, Sasha Perdita Elizabeth | Director | 2015-08-31 | 2017-11-13 |
| KINNEY, Joanne Frances | Director | 2015-08-31 | 2020-08-31 |
| KIRKHAM, Anne, Dr | Director | 2015-08-31 | 2017-08-31 |
| LEE, Elisabeth Lindsay | Director | 2014-06-12 | 2017-08-31 |
| MCVEIGH, Anita Merna | Director | 2015-08-31 | 2016-03-21 |
| MICHAEL, Melanie Sarah | Director | 2018-01-05 | 2023-10-31 |
| SABBAGH, Lena | Director | 2015-08-31 | 2017-11-13 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 84 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-02-19 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-02-03 MA Memorandum articles
- 2026-01-21 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-04-08 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-04-08 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-19 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-02-03 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-01-21 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-01-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-13 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-05-13 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-08 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-04-08 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-06-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
-
Turnover
+8.9%
£8,540,951 £9,299,166
-
Cash
+147.1%
£1,849,569 £4,570,724
-
Net assets
+0.5%
£14,707,455 £14,775,777
-
Employees
-2%
151 148
-
Wages
+9%
£5,418,525 £5,906,866
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