LIME TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-19 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-05
Watchouts
Cash
£6M
+1.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£75M
+13.4% vs 2024
Employees
742
+4.2% 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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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- LIME TRUST 2017-06-15 → present
- THE LIME ACADEMY TRUST 2014-11-05 → 2017-06-15
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 | £35,262,000 | £44,220,000 | |
| Operating profit | £117,000 | £5,774,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £117,000 | £5,774,000 | |
| Cash | £6,005,000 | £6,117,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £70,887,000 | £75,939,000 | |
| Net assets | £65,806,000 | £74,625,000 | |
| Equity | £65,806,000 | £74,625,000 | |
| Average employees | 712 | 742 | |
| Wages | £18,527,000 | £23,279,000 |
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 | 0.3% | 13.1% | |
| Net margin | 0.3% | 13.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.2% | 7.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 10.7% | 6.6% | |
| Current ratio | 3.23x | 2.52x | |
| Interest cover | 0.39x | 26.61x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Buzzacott Audit 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
- “On 1 April 2025, Lime Academy Hartwell (formerly Windmill Hill School), a Local Authority school, joined the MAT.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 29 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, Kelly | Secretary | 2023-03-29 | — | — |
| CASEY, Eamonn Tomas | Director | 2026-03-17 | Aug 1982 | Irish |
| COLE, Christopher | Director | 2015-11-26 | Aug 1966 | British |
| CRIPPS, Joanne Claire | Director | 2025-12-17 | Nov 1973 | British |
| CURTIS, Samantha Emma | Director | 2019-03-05 | Sep 1978 | British |
| GADD, Gillian | Director | 2023-05-10 | Mar 1985 | Irish |
| GREEN, Peter Alfred | Director | 2026-03-17 | Jan 1982 | British |
| KAMAL, Ahmed Deedat | Director | 2025-12-17 | Feb 1993 | British |
| MORGAN SMITH, Holly | Director | 2019-10-29 | Jul 1984 | British |
Show 29 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| KARAPETYAN, Irena | Secretary | 2017-10-10 | 2023-03-29 |
| LITTMAN, Joanne | Secretary | 2015-07-02 | 2016-11-24 |
| ALLISTER, Leonie | Director | 2014-12-22 | 2016-02-29 |
| BALL, Barbara | Director | 2015-11-26 | 2016-09-22 |
| BATE, Lawrence Michael | Director | 2017-06-16 | 2019-04-08 |
| CARDWELL, Sheryl | Director | 2017-06-16 | 2019-10-29 |
| CASSELS, John Wilson | Director | 2016-11-24 | 2017-06-16 |
| CASSELS, John Wilson | Director | 2015-01-08 | 2015-02-03 |
| CHURCHMAN, Lynn | Director | 2014-12-22 | 2017-06-16 |
| COLLISON, Lisa | Director | 2017-06-16 | 2017-11-29 |
| COLLISON, Lisa Anne | Director | 2014-12-22 | 2015-02-03 |
| CONSTANTI, Christina Ann | Director | 2014-11-05 | 2016-09-22 |
| DAOUD, Amanda Jane | Director | 2014-12-22 | 2017-11-29 |
| FLOOD, Sean | Director | 2019-07-17 | 2020-03-10 |
| GRAHAM, Natasha Shaneen | Director | 2014-12-22 | 2018-07-03 |
| HARROWELL, Lynne | Director | 2014-11-05 | 2018-03-23 |
| JENNINGS, Amanda Lee | Director | 2022-09-12 | 2026-04-13 |
| KOUMADITIS, Markos, Dr | Director | 2021-11-18 | 2023-02-03 |
| LEASK, William | Director | 2019-10-29 | 2025-07-31 |
| MARCHAND, Hugues Albert | Director | 2018-07-03 | 2019-04-08 |
| MCDONNELL, Bernard | Director | 2018-07-03 | 2019-07-17 |
| MILLER, Neil Ian | Director | 2023-03-21 | 2024-03-28 |
| MURPHY, Lisa | Director | 2019-03-05 | 2022-04-20 |
| NEO, Hwee-Ching Ching | Director | 2019-10-29 | 2021-11-18 |
| ORLOVSKY, Marcus | Director | 2015-11-26 | 2017-11-28 |
| REYNOLDS, Terence | Director | 2018-01-01 | 2019-03-12 |
| SARRE, Hugh Colin Alexander | Director | 2019-10-29 | 2025-10-30 |
| SHAPIRO, Jonathan | Director | 2018-07-03 | 2019-04-05 |
| TAYLOR, Jaynn | Director | 2014-11-05 | 2015-07-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ms Alison Luise Durban | Individual | Appoints directors | 2024-05-22 | Active |
| Mr Mike Thomas | Individual | Appoints directors | 2024-04-30 | Active |
| Mr Gary Redhead | Individual | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2024-02-07 | Active |
| Mr James Edward Sanderson | Individual | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2021-05-13 | Active |
| Mrs Christina Ann Constanti | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2020-03-10 | Ceased 2025-12-09 |
| Mr Ilker Hasan Yoney | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2020-03-10 | Ceased 2024-02-07 |
| Mrs Catherine Lee Lewis | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2020-03-10 | Ceased 2021-07-08 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 107 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-09 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-01 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-30 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-02 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-04-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-08 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-02-08 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
+25.4%
£35,262,000 £44,220,000
-
Cash
+1.9%
£6,005,000 £6,117,000
-
Net assets
+13.4%
£65,806,000 £74,625,000
-
Employees
+4.2%
712 742
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Operating profit
+4,835%
£117,000 £5,774,000
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Wages
+25.6%
£18,527,000 £23,279,000
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