LEARNING IN HARMONY MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-03 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
-39.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£121M
+22.7% vs 2024
Employees
1,350
+32.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£17M
+174.5% vs 2024
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 | £49,075,123 | £64,948,462 | |
| Operating profit | -£3,482,767 | -£244,674 | |
| Profit before tax | £6,310,972 | £17,323,428 | |
| Net profit | £2,369,972 | £17,719,428 | |
| Cash | £5,729,251 | £3,474,949 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £98,872,533 | £121,489,961 | |
| Net assets | £98,872,533 | £121,274,961 | |
| Equity | £98,872,533 | £121,274,961 | |
| Average employees | 1,018 | 1,350 | |
| Wages | £31,893,709 | £36,584,482 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -7.1% | -0.4% | |
| Net margin | 4.8% | 27.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | -3.5% | -0.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 3.7% | 5.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.87x | 1.35x | |
| Interest cover | -2.70x | -0.10x |
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
- Kreston Reeves Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the board of Trustees agreed on 30 September 2025 that it 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.”
Significant events
- “The Trust operates 14 schools across the City of Southend, the London Boroughs of Islington, Newham and Waltham Forest. Two schools, Joseph Clarke School and Whitefield Special School, joined the Trust on 1 January 2025.”
- “During 2023-24 we had been working towards a merger with another MAT based in East London; during the 2024-25 financial year this work continued into the year but drew to a close without the merger being completed.”
- “Whilst the onboarding of the two schools which were formerly part of the Flourish Learning Trust was successfully completed on 1st January 2025, the unforeseen impact of the BBC Panorama investigation into the use of calming rooms in schools and the historical safeguarding abuse claims at the Whitefield School, created an added complexity to the situation that required careful and sensitive management.”
- “The financial situation for the Trust following the negative reserves transferred along with Joseph Clarke School and Whitefield School and the limitations that this created for the Trust financially during the year, required careful management.”
- “We received four Ofsted inspections within six school weeks, including two on the same day during the academic year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 21 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARTMELL, Lesley Jayne | Director | 2020-09-11 | Jul 1958 | British |
| HABBAS, Mohammad Jamil Saud | Director | 2023-11-23 | Aug 1968 | British |
| HART, Tomas Charles | Director | 2026-01-05 | Aug 1983 | British |
| HINCHLIFFE, Heidi | Director | 2014-07-28 | Nov 1969 | British,Australian |
| KADER, Gulbanu Yusuf | Director | 2022-09-28 | Sep 1972 | British |
| MULENGA, Chilufya Nkole | Director | 2021-11-19 | Aug 1991 | British |
| SPINKS, Ben | Director | 2020-09-11 | Feb 1977 | British |
| SWAIN, Penelope | Director | 2022-12-07 | May 1971 | British |
| WILKIE, Gary Roland | Director | 2014-09-01 | Feb 1966 | British |
Show 21 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALADE, Shakirudeen Adewale | Director | 2014-07-28 | 2016-05-09 |
| BROWN, Jo-Anne | Director | 2017-10-17 | 2019-06-28 |
| DARLEY, Charles Henry | Director | 2015-07-08 | 2016-12-13 |
| FIELD, Robert John | Director | 2016-07-14 | 2018-07-02 |
| HASLETT, Philip John | Director | 2015-10-13 | 2023-10-11 |
| JONES OBE, Rosemary | Director | 2019-09-02 | 2022-03-25 |
| KELLER, Robert Stanford | Director | 2018-10-30 | 2022-02-23 |
| KING, John | Director | 2014-07-28 | 2019-09-29 |
| MARRIOTT, Julianne | Director | 2015-10-13 | 2018-05-12 |
| MCCLAY, Leilah | Director | 2015-01-01 | 2016-08-31 |
| MILES, Marijke Dominique | Director | 2019-09-09 | 2022-03-10 |
| MORROW, Dan | Director | 2022-12-07 | 2024-01-23 |
| MUSSA, Ishmat | Director | 2015-02-04 | 2017-10-17 |
| PRUDHOE, Daniel | Director | 2025-04-30 | 2025-11-25 |
| QUINN, Paul Andrew | Director | 2014-09-09 | 2019-02-21 |
| ROCHFORD, Diane Mary | Director | 2014-09-01 | 2019-07-15 |
| ROTHERAM, Kelly Joanne | Director | 2017-10-17 | 2020-05-13 |
| SAVILLE, Peter Mark | Director | 2018-12-10 | 2023-12-20 |
| SEWELL, Katherine Ria | Director | 2017-10-17 | 2018-05-12 |
| TURVEY, Nicholas Peter | Director | 2015-10-13 | 2019-07-15 |
| UDENWOKE, Laura | Director | 2018-03-20 | 2021-09-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miss Pauline Collier | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-06-01 | Ceased 2016-10-02 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 83 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-11-15 MA Memorandum articles
- 2022-11-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-15 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2022-11-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-10-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
-
Turnover
+32.3%
£49,075,123 £64,948,462
-
Cash
-39.3%
£5,729,251 £3,474,949
-
Net assets
+22.7%
£98,872,533 £121,274,961
-
Employees
+32.6%
1,018 1,350
-
Operating profit
+93%
-£3,482,767 -£244,674
-
Profit before tax
+174.5%
£6,310,972 £17,323,428
-
Wages
+14.7%
£31,893,709 £36,584,482
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