VICTORIOUS ACADEMIES TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-05 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-21
Watchouts
Cash
£4M
+5.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£51M
+29.2% vs 2024
Employees
592
-3.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£12M
+114.4% vs 2024
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.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- VICTORIOUS ACADEMIES TRUST 2018-01-16 → present
- CARILLION ACADEMIES TRUST 2014-11-21 → 2018-01-16
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 | £23,399,798 | £27,289,707 | |
| Operating profit | £5,780,151 | £12,339,168 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,700,151 | £12,218,331 | |
| Net profit | £3,962,151 | £11,461,331 | |
| Cash | £3,870,500 | £4,068,475 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £39,801,104 | £51,184,137 | |
| Net assets | £39,296,854 | £50,758,185 | |
| Equity | £39,296,854 | £50,758,185 | |
| Average employees | 614 | 592 | |
| Wages | £14,017,516 | £16,330,729 |
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 | 24.7% | 45.2% | |
| Net margin | 16.9% | 42.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 14.5% | 24.1% | |
| Current ratio | 3.44x | 3.41x | |
| Interest cover | 72.25x | 88.14x |
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
- Murray Smith 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.”
Significant events
- “Arundale and Pinfold Primary Schools joined the Trust in March 2025.”
- “St Annes Primary School joined on 1st September 2025.”
- “Catering services were brought in-house across 11 schools, with 33 staff TUPE'd in.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WISE, Nicola | Secretary | 2025-02-21 | — | — |
| BOOKER, Michael | Director | 2022-06-16 | Jan 1955 | English |
| BURNS, Karen Louise | Director | 2018-01-01 | Oct 1976 | British |
| FARQUHAR, Sarah | Director | 2026-01-16 | Jul 1979 | British |
| HODGKINSON, Andrew Paul, Dr | Director | 2019-03-25 | Sep 1973 | British |
| MCDONAGH, Dean | Director | 2018-01-10 | Apr 1989 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAMSAY, Anne Catherine | Secretary | 2015-02-25 | 2018-01-10 |
| APTHOMAS, John | Director | 2020-06-20 | 2021-12-31 |
| BERRY, Leanne | Director | 2018-06-11 | 2020-07-20 |
| BERRY, Sally Elisabeth | Director | 2019-11-07 | 2021-11-21 |
| BUXTON, Gary | Director | 2021-07-09 | 2025-08-31 |
| DOLAN, Ruth Anne | Director | 2018-01-10 | 2020-12-14 |
| HEWITT-LEE, Victoria Clare Samantha | Director | 2018-01-10 | 2026-01-15 |
| HOLT, Robert Duncan | Director | 2018-03-27 | 2018-12-07 |
| HOLT, Robert Duncan | Director | 2017-03-27 | 2017-03-27 |
| HOLT, Robert Duncan | Director | 2014-11-21 | 2018-01-10 |
| JACKSON, Charlotte Alexandra | Director | 2022-07-05 | 2023-04-12 |
| NICOLA, George | Director | 2020-07-20 | 2022-07-25 |
| SPRUCE, David Edward | Director | 2021-12-13 | 2022-08-31 |
| SUMMERLIN, Tracey | Director | 2018-09-17 | 2019-02-22 |
| WHITE, Robert Garry | Director | 2018-01-10 | 2020-01-06 |
| WILLIAMS, Andrew Milburn | Director | 2022-11-21 | 2026-01-15 |
| WILLIAMS, David Alexander | Director | 2023-06-12 | 2026-01-15 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 74 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-21 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-01-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
+16.6%
£23,399,798 £27,289,707
-
Cash
+5.1%
£3,870,500 £4,068,475
-
Net assets
+29.2%
£39,296,854 £50,758,185
-
Employees
-3.6%
614 592
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Operating profit
+113.5%
£5,780,151 £12,339,168
-
Profit before tax
+114.4%
£5,700,151 £12,218,331
-
Wages
+16.5%
£14,017,516 £16,330,729
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