SHARPLES SCHOOL A MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-17 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-03
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
-13.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£14M
+0.4% vs 2024
Employees
146
+3.5% 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 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
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 | £9,122,905 | £9,571,692 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £193,493 | £212,186 | |
| Cash | £2,054,508 | £1,781,537 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,344,725 | £14,384,111 | |
| Net assets | £14,333,925 | £14,384,111 | |
| Equity | £14,333,925 | £14,384,111 | |
| Average employees | 141 | 146 | |
| Wages | £4,765,721 | £5,285,158 |
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 | 2.1% | 2.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 5.3% | 4.1% | |
| Current ratio | 3.46x | 4.50x |
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
- Xeinadin Audit Ltd
- 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
- “Significant work on further developing the curriculum has taken place over 2024-25 to ensure that it is broad, ambitious and challenging for all students.”
- “In November 2023 Sharples won the gold award for 'Making a Difference - Secondary School of the Year' in the Pearson National Teaching Awards.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INGRAM, Catherine | Secretary | 2017-06-01 | — | — |
| BABARIYA, Afzal | Director | 2024-12-16 | Aug 1981 | British |
| CHEL, Rayaz Ali | Director | 2024-10-10 | Nov 1978 | British |
| GIJA, Sazid | Director | 2024-10-10 | May 1978 | British |
| HARBOT TAYLOR, Andrew | Director | 2025-07-10 | Jun 1980 | British |
| HART, Lesley Ann | Director | 2015-07-08 | Nov 1966 | British |
| MAKA, Idris | Director | 2025-07-10 | Dec 1983 | British |
| MOLYNEUX, Caroline | Director | 2024-09-01 | Mar 1977 | British |
| MORTON, Anne | Director | 2024-12-16 | Mar 1955 | British |
| SHEPLEY, John Kirk | Director | 2015-07-08 | Nov 1944 | British |
| SLATER, Martyn | Director | 2025-03-07 | Jan 1982 | British |
| VALLANCE, Leigh, Dr | Director | 2018-07-12 | Jan 1961 | British |
| VEPARI, Farhana | Director | 2024-12-12 | Jul 1977 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENTLEY, Joanne Christine | Secretary | 2016-10-24 | 2017-02-07 |
| ATKINSON, Charles Robert | Director | 2018-07-12 | 2018-07-18 |
| CULL, Michael Charles | Director | 2018-07-12 | 2018-07-18 |
| HART, Lesley Ann | Director | 2015-07-08 | 2018-07-12 |
| HART, Lesley Ann | Director | 2015-07-08 | 2019-07-15 |
| HEAD, Julia | Director | 2020-03-11 | 2025-09-23 |
| HEYES, James | Director | 2018-07-12 | 2024-09-19 |
| HIGGINGBOTTOM, Lynne | Director | 2020-03-11 | 2022-09-15 |
| QUESNEL, Rachel Marie | Director | 2015-07-08 | 2017-04-30 |
| SHEPLEY, John Kirk | Director | 2015-07-08 | 2018-07-12 |
| SMITH, Lynne Susanne | Director | 2015-07-08 | 2018-03-22 |
| WEBSTER, Ann | Director | 2017-05-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| WILD, Christine | Director | 2015-07-08 | 2020-02-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ms Kelly Jane James | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2025-09-18 | Active |
| Ms Alison Jane Brennan | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2024-12-16 | Active |
| Mr James Heyes | Individual | Voting 25–50%, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2024-10-10 | Active |
| Dr Eda Gliga-Baubec | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2024-10-10 | Active |
| Mr Paul Humphreys | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2020-12-15 | Ceased 2025-06-27 |
| Mrs Hilary Fairclough | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2020-12-15 | Ceased 2024-12-16 |
| Mr Robert Atkinson | Individual | Significant influence | 2019-09-01 | Ceased 2024-12-16 |
| Mr Julian Paul Gilbert | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2019-08-13 | Ceased 2021-12-12 |
| Mr Michael Charles Cull | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2017-09-01 | Ceased 2020-12-12 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 72 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-18 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-27 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-17 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-17 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-17 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-15 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-15 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-20 | 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
- 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
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Turnover
+4.9%
£9,122,905 £9,571,692
-
Cash
-13.3%
£2,054,508 £1,781,537
-
Net assets
+0.4%
£14,333,925 £14,384,111
-
Employees
+3.5%
141 146
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Wages
+10.9%
£4,765,721 £5,285,158
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