INSPIRE LEARNING TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-14 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-01-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-19.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£52M
+1% vs 2024
Employees
528
+2.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- INSPIRE LEARNING TRUST 2023-09-29 → present
- LEADERS IN LEARNING MULTI ACADEMY TRUST 2015-03-10 → 2023-09-29
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 | £1,077,000 | £1,290,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £36,977,000 | -£294,000 | |
| Cash | £2,934,000 | £2,349,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £52,481,000 | £51,965,000 | |
| Net assets | £51,429,000 | £51,955,000 | |
| Equity | £51,429,000 | £51,955,000 | |
| Average employees | 516 | 528 | |
| Wages | £15,462,000 | £16,402,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 3433.3% | -22.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.16x | 2.41x |
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
- Marriott Gibbs Rees Wallis Limited
- 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
- “Inspire Learning Trust was formed from the merger of two existing Trusts, Leaders in Learning Multi Academy Trust and Inspire Trust, with effect from 1 September 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOOTH, Charles Adrian | Director | 2015-03-10 | Apr 1959 | British |
| HINDS, Anne Elizabeth | Director | 2015-03-10 | Sep 1960 | British |
| LEESON, Tracey Ann | Director | 2023-09-01 | Apr 1965 | British |
| MOODY, Mark Thomas | Director | 2025-11-26 | May 1974 | British |
| NAISBITT, David Michael | Director | 2023-09-01 | Nov 1967 | British |
| SAWYER, Jon Paul | Director | 2025-11-26 | Oct 1976 | British |
| SHELDON, Peter | Director | 2023-09-01 | Jun 1965 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTTERWORTH, Holly | Director | 2021-01-25 | 2025-01-24 |
| CATER-WHITHAM, Robert | Director | 2015-03-10 | 2018-03-13 |
| JAGGER, Paul Edward | Director | 2023-09-01 | 2024-09-03 |
| RHODES, Stephen | Director | 2016-06-01 | 2023-08-31 |
| ROBINSON, Steven Paul | Director | 2019-07-03 | 2024-01-18 |
| STAVELEY, John | Director | 2018-03-13 | 2020-09-23 |
| WOODHOUSE, Drew Christian | Director | 2020-09-23 | 2024-05-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr David Michael Naisbitt | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2025-12-16 | Active |
| Miss Anne Elizabeth Hinds | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-10-15 |
| Mr Martin Povey | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-10-15 |
| Mr Robert Cater-Whitham | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-03-13 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 62 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-12-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-03-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-07 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-12-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-17 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-02-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-02-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
+19.8%
£1,077,000 £1,290,000
-
Cash
-19.9%
£2,934,000 £2,349,000
-
Net assets
+1%
£51,429,000 £51,955,000
-
Employees
+2.3%
516 528
-
Wages
+6.1%
£15,462,000 £16,402,000
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