THE WHERRY SCHOOL TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-22 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£840K
-1.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
+0.1% vs 2024
Employees
82
+5.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
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 | £3,779,256 | £4,214,629 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £103,683 | £72,249 | |
| Cash | £853,901 | £839,962 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,915,320 | £6,919,569 | |
| Net assets | £6,915,320 | £6,919,569 | |
| Equity | £6,915,320 | £6,919,569 | |
| Average employees | 78 | 82 | |
| Wages | £2,197,775 | £2,462,136 |
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 | 2.7% | 1.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 1.8% | 3.0% | |
| Current ratio | 7.41x | 5.26x |
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
- Price Bailey LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the 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 successful application and acceptance from the DfE to become a Sponsoring Academy Trust: an application was made in March 2023 which was successful and the Trust has achieved sponsor status.”
- “GCSE outcomes in 2023/24 were published in 2024, which identified that the school was the strongest performing specialist school in the country at GCSE for outcomes (1/1700 schools) and 2nd for Progress measures.”
- “As a bridging year for pupils seeking mainstream sixth form, college courses of employment based training beyond Year 12 has been further enhanced with a project with Aviva, offering Supported Internships for 2024 onwards.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, Louise Josephine | Director | 2021-09-01 | Aug 1973 | British |
| BURROWS, Kyle Maclean | Director | 2024-11-20 | May 1972 | British |
| BUTWRIGHT, Rachel Mary Courtney Quick | Director | 2017-07-20 | Feb 1969 | British |
| CARR, Marina Joyce | Director | 2026-03-02 | Feb 1959 | British |
| CONWAY, Brian Anthony | Director | 2015-11-23 | Jun 1969 | British |
| JOHNSTON, Sara Louise | Director | 2021-10-04 | Nov 1961 | British |
| KULKARNI, Amrita | Director | 2025-07-01 | Mar 1986 | British |
| MANGKUSASONO, Jennifer Lynn Fagen | Director | 2019-07-10 | Oct 1978 | American |
| ROSEN, Michael | Director | 2022-06-27 | Mar 1959 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLEMAN, Dale Andrew | Secretary | 2014-10-08 | 2021-01-18 |
| BICKNELL, Alan John | Director | 2014-10-08 | 2020-06-30 |
| BUNTON, Ian | Director | 2021-10-04 | 2024-08-31 |
| COLEMAN, Dale Andrew | Director | 2017-07-20 | 2021-01-21 |
| COLLINS, Neil James | Director | 2023-02-06 | 2025-01-07 |
| GARROD, Thomas Steven Charles | Director | 2019-06-18 | 2020-11-02 |
| GILHAM, Richard Geoffrey | Director | 2014-10-08 | 2016-11-16 |
| GOTHARD, Susan | Director | 2014-10-08 | 2019-07-20 |
| HILES, Gillian Audrey | Director | 2017-07-20 | 2019-03-27 |
| JONES, Miriam Catherine | Director | 2018-10-03 | 2022-04-19 |
| MCDONNELL, Susanne Elizabeth | Director | 2019-06-18 | 2021-08-31 |
| MCKENZIE, Victoria | Director | 2019-06-18 | 2023-06-10 |
| PAYNE, Barry Raymond Neil | Director | 2015-01-29 | 2026-02-22 |
| PRICE, Matthew Robert | Director | 2019-07-10 | 2022-07-11 |
| RAND, Joanna Lyn | Director | 2020-09-16 | 2021-03-21 |
| RAYWOOD, Susan May | Director | 2014-10-08 | 2015-04-13 |
| ROBERTS, Rebecca Louise | Director | 2022-04-08 | 2022-05-02 |
| SWEETING, Tim Joseph | Director | 2018-10-30 | 2020-11-02 |
| TINDAL, Susan Patricial | Director | 2019-06-18 | 2020-11-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 70 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-02-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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
+11.5%
£3,779,256 £4,214,629
-
Cash
-1.6%
£853,901 £839,962
-
Net assets
+0.1%
£6,915,320 £6,919,569
-
Employees
+5.1%
78 82
-
Wages
+12%
£2,197,775 £2,462,136
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