MINERVA LEARNING TRUST

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

Hart Shaw 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. MINERVA LEARNING TRUST · parent
   1. Barrow Hill Primary Academy
   2. Chapeltown Academy
   3. Dunston Primary & Nursery Academy
   4. Ecclesfield School
   5. Handsworth Grange Community Sports College
   6. High Storrs School
   7. Netherthorpe School
   8. Stocksbridge High School
   9. Woodthorpe Primary School
   10. Whittington Moor Nursery and Infant Academy

Significant events

• “The Academy Trust operates five Secondary Schools, one Post 16 Academy and four Primary School in Sheffield City and Chesterfield Town.”
• “The merger with Cavendish Learning Trust in December 2024 introduced many new opportunities and challenges”
• “planned expansion of Chapeltown Academy to support student number growth for September 2027.”
• “The Trust continued processes to support further expansion of the provision at Chapeltown Academy and student numbers are in line with predictions for September 2025.”
• “The transfer of Woodthorpe Community Primary School into the trust has evidenced the impact of working across school phases and the trust has now set the foundations to further enhance a primary hub. Onboarding an additional three primary schools in North Derbyshire has grown the trust's primary hub”
• “Managing the HR, financial and estates risks associated with the PFI Exit programme of Ecclesfield School which has been ongoing during the reporting period and will complete in 2026.”
• “On 1 December 2024 Whittington Moor Nursery and Infant Academy transferred all operations and assets and liabilities to Minerva Learning Trust for £nil consideration.”
• “On 1 December 2024 Dunston Primary and Nursery Academy transferred all operations and assets and liabilities to Minerva Learning Trust for £nil consideration.”
• “On 1 December 2024 Barrow Hill Primary School transferred all operations and assets and liabilities to Minerva Learning Trust for £nil consideration.”
• “On 1 December 2024 Netherthorpe School transferred all operations and assets and liabilities to Minerva Learning Trust for £nil consideration.”
• “On 1 December 2024 all the schools within Cavendish Learning Trust (being Barrow Hill Primary Academy, Dunston Primary and Nursery Academy, Netherthorpe School and Whittington Moor Nursery and Infant Academy) were rebrokered into Minerva Learning Trust.”

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

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +30.2%

  £42,076,134 → £54,772,183

• Cash

  -35.4%

  £6,895,252 → £4,456,725

• Net assets

  +27.2%

  £81,419,441 → £103,554,689

• Employees

  +29.9%

  749 → 973

• Operating profit

  -17.2%

  -£3,424,147 → -£4,014,516

• Profit before tax

  +935.8%

  -£2,458,325 → £20,546,248

• Wages

  +30.4%

  £24,103,565 → £31,439,659

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