HARPENDEN SECONDARY EDUCATION TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-14 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-30
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
-17.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£25M
-1.1% vs 2024
Employees
194
+22% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £8,231,058 | £9,034,463 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £594,000 | -£156,594 | |
| Cash | £1,320,743 | £1,087,935 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £24,884,752 | £24,613,158 | |
| Net assets | £24,884,752 | £24,613,158 | |
| Equity | £24,884,752 | £24,613,158 | |
| Average employees | 159 | 194 | |
| Wages | £4,025,067 | £4,935,933 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 7.2% | -1.7% | |
| Current ratio | 2.98x | 2.38x |
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
- Auditor
- Moore Kingston Smith LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trust Board 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
- “In September 2024, we opened our Sixth Form KWSixth.”
- “Funding was also used to support our new 3G all weather pitch which opened in January 2024.”
- “Phase 1 of the project was complete and in operation as of 1st September 2025 which has created an overflow Car Park at the end of our Rugby Pitch, improvements to the Main Car Park remaining ongoing.”
- “The School has also secured Planning Permission for a Sixth Form Block consisting of study space, social space and 3 general classrooms. This was secured in July 2025 following unanimous approval by the St Albans Planning Development Committee.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
14 active · 30 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INNS, Dean | Secretary | 2022-12-07 | — | — |
| HOWARTH, Jennifer Laura | Director | 2019-01-22 | Feb 1977 | British |
| HUNT, Nicola | Director | 2025-05-08 | Mar 1981 | British |
| LARGE, Catherine Amanda | Director | 2026-03-16 | Jul 1981 | British |
| LAWRENCE, Suzanne Elizabeth Campin | Director | 2022-01-07 | Oct 1982 | British |
| MARTIN, David Alexander | Director | 2023-09-21 | Aug 1980 | British |
| MCGUINNESS, Charlotte Katherine | Director | 2024-09-27 | May 1973 | British |
| NOAKES, Colin Frederick | Director | 2024-11-12 | Aug 1952 | British |
| PEARSON, Sally Elizabeth | Director | 2022-08-29 | Jul 1960 | British |
| SMITH, Louise | Director | 2024-01-05 | May 1980 | British |
| VICKERS, Alexander Michael | Director | 2020-11-13 | Jan 1983 | British |
| WASHBURN, Jamie Benjamin | Director | 2022-05-10 | Jan 1986 | British |
| WILSON, Elizabeth | Director | 2024-01-05 | Jul 1979 | British |
| WITTER, Donna | Director | 2019-10-15 | Dec 1970 | British |
Show 30 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIKMAN, Grace | Director | 2019-10-15 | 2021-07-31 |
| ANGUS, Steven David | Director | 2015-12-04 | 2020-12-09 |
| BADI, Adam | Director | 2023-03-05 | 2025-12-19 |
| BARTON, Helen Jane | Director | 2017-09-13 | 2022-08-31 |
| BRADY, Gerard | Director | 2022-06-20 | 2023-03-06 |
| BURT, John Bohun | Director | 2020-07-20 | 2022-07-29 |
| COOK, Dani | Director | 2022-05-10 | 2026-05-09 |
| DERVIN, Karen Elizabeth | Director | 2025-09-01 | 2026-03-04 |
| FISH, Helen Louise | Director | 2015-02-05 | 2020-06-17 |
| GRIMES, Ian James | Director | 2019-09-24 | 2022-01-12 |
| HAYNES, Fiona | Director | 2020-01-21 | 2020-10-12 |
| HENSHALL, Alan Charles | Director | 2014-09-29 | 2022-08-31 |
| HIGGINS, Julia | Director | 2021-01-29 | 2021-11-12 |
| HOCKLEY, Ryan Paul | Director | 2019-01-22 | 2019-12-10 |
| JAMES, Stephen | Director | 2014-09-29 | 2015-07-14 |
| KARP, Angela, Professor | Director | 2017-04-04 | 2022-08-31 |
| LAING, Simon | Director | 2021-09-07 | 2025-09-06 |
| MCGOVERN, Raymond | Director | 2014-09-29 | 2017-08-31 |
| MISTRY, Dimple | Director | 2020-06-22 | 2022-03-20 |
| NEWLAN, Julie Ann | Director | 2014-09-29 | 2022-08-31 |
| PARKAR, Heena Kausar | Director | 2021-12-08 | 2022-04-19 |
| PARKINSON, Helen | Director | 2015-02-05 | 2021-11-14 |
| PETTENGELL, Glen | Director | 2019-09-24 | 2021-07-31 |
| ROBINS, Claire Elizabeth | Director | 2014-09-29 | 2022-08-31 |
| SMILLIE, Laura | Director | 2015-09-08 | 2017-01-31 |
| SMITH, Anthony Kenneth | Director | 2017-06-27 | 2023-07-31 |
| TOBIN, Neal | Director | 2019-10-15 | 2023-10-14 |
| WALL, Sonia | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2024-03-28 |
| WATERS, Philip Edward | Director | 2014-09-30 | 2021-07-31 |
| ZACHARIA, Charlotte | Director | 2020-11-13 | 2024-10-08 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 120 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-30 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-12-21 CC04 Statement of companys objects
- 2025-12-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-30 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-21 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2025-12-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-10-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 12
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 4
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
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Turnover
+9.8%
£8,231,058 £9,034,463
-
Cash
-17.6%
£1,320,743 £1,087,935
-
Net assets
-1.1%
£24,884,752 £24,613,158
-
Employees
+22%
159 194
-
Wages
+22.6%
£4,025,067 £4,935,933
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