VERITAS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-30 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£593K
-5.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£8M
-4.6% vs 2024
Employees
201
+6.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£245K
+71.4% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- VERITAS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST 2016-10-11 → present
- WARDEN HOUSE TRUST 2015-07-17 → 2016-10-11
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 | £6,354,284 | £7,194,607 | |
| Operating profit | -£867,984 | -£274,238 | |
| Profit before tax | -£856,984 | -£245,238 | |
| Net profit | -£856,984 | -£245,238 | |
| Cash | £626,294 | £593,285 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,337,254 | £7,948,011 | |
| Net assets | £8,291,166 | £7,909,928 | |
| Equity | £8,291,166 | £7,909,928 | |
| Average employees | 189 | 201 | |
| Wages | £4,220,413 | £4,482,639 |
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 | -13.7% | -3.8% | |
| Net margin | -13.5% | -3.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -10.4% | -3.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.03x | 2.34x | |
| Interest cover | -3.65x | -1.08x |
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
- Xeinadin Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the academy trust's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “During the year of reporting the Trust entered into an exploration of merger with another Trust. Veritas MAT Board withdrew from negotiations in June 2025.”
- “Headteacher Robert Hackett, resigned his position as Headteacher on 31 August 2025.”
- “In July 2024, the CEO became the Interim CEO for Rainham Mark Education Trust for which Veritas MAT invoiced Rainham Mark Education Trust via a Service Level Agreement (SLA). This was a temporary role, in place until 30 June 2025.”
- “In March 2025, Warden House underwent an external Ofsted Inspection. Govemance and Trust were recognised as having a clear plan in place... The Trust has appointed a new Head Teacher, who took up role in September 2025.”
- “The new build for Pilgrims' Way School, Canterbury, is on track for completion in November 2025. The school will be open to pupils from January 2026.”
- “Successful application to open a pre-school at Mundella School enabled the provision to begin operating in January 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 21 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHEPPARD, Stephanie Lynne Pamela | Secretary | 2025-01-01 | — | — |
| AFFUM, Yasmin | Director | 2023-10-17 | Sep 1985 | British |
| DUNCAN, Hannah Elizabeth | Director | 2022-10-11 | Sep 1990 | British |
| HASELTINE, Simon John | Director | 2022-10-11 | Jun 1959 | British |
| HOEKMAN-TUCKFIELD, Sarah | Director | 2024-11-07 | Dec 1979 | British |
| JOLLY, Heather | Director | 2024-11-07 | Dec 1982 | British |
| JORDAN-DAUS, Kerry Dawn | Director | 2022-09-01 | Sep 1963 | British |
| OLIVIER, Jeannine Chantel | Director | 2026-01-09 | Jul 1974 | British,South African |
| OWORU, Oluyinka | Director | 2023-05-23 | Aug 1981 | Nigerian |
| SHEARMAN, Jennifer Fenwick, Dr | Director | 2022-10-11 | Oct 1980 | British |
| SIBBICK, Gavin Andrew | Director | 2023-05-23 | Jan 1983 | British |
Show 21 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOON, Alison Marie | Secretary | 2015-10-14 | 2025-02-20 |
| BRISTOW, Gary Robert | Director | 2018-05-22 | 2023-09-01 |
| CHISNELL, Graham Mcpherson | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2022-08-31 |
| COYSTON, Christopher Brian | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2019-12-31 |
| DRISCOLL, Patricia, Dr | Director | 2017-10-10 | 2020-07-14 |
| JOHNS, Anna Louise | Director | 2020-05-20 | 2021-12-14 |
| KING, Jeremy Nicholas Russell | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2018-01-30 |
| LISTER, David Henry | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2018-03-27 |
| MIDDLETON, Anne-Marie Michelle | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2018-03-27 |
| MOON, Alison Marie | Director | 2018-05-22 | 2021-07-28 |
| MOORE, Lynne Louise | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2016-07-12 |
| MORRIS, Richard John | Director | 2020-07-14 | 2024-08-31 |
| MUGFORD, Robert James | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2016-07-12 |
| PARKES, Angela Victoria | Director | 2019-12-11 | 2022-12-16 |
| PRICE, Douglas William | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2020-03-11 |
| PRICE, Mandy | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2016-12-10 |
| SMITH, Simon Paul | Director | 2018-01-30 | 2022-12-13 |
| STEELE, Rebecca Anne | Director | 2023-05-23 | 2024-09-16 |
| UTTING, John Christopher | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2017-10-10 |
| WERTH, Louie Abraham | Director | 2018-01-30 | 2021-03-30 |
| WOOD, Tamzin Jane | Director | 2020-04-01 | 2024-07-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Finley Issac Lawson | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2025-11-01 | Active |
| Mr Douglas Little | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2025-11-01 | Active |
| Ms Louisa Horner | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2025-11-01 | Active |
| Ms Gillian May Rowland | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2019-02-13 | Ceased 2021-03-30 |
| Ms Louisa Horner | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2019-02-13 | Ceased 2021-03-30 |
| Mr Cliff Collins | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2019-02-13 | Ceased 2021-03-30 |
| Mr Christopher Brian Coyston | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-05-03 | Ceased 2021-03-30 |
| Mr David Henry Lister | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-05-03 | Ceased 2019-02-13 |
| Mr John Christopher Utting | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-05-03 | Ceased 2019-02-13 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 86 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-08-09 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-08-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-07-29 CC04 Statement of companys objects
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-16 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-12-10 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-12-10 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-27 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-07-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-20 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-13 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-11-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-09 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-08-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-07-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-29 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2024-07-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
+13.2%
£6,354,284 £7,194,607
-
Cash
-5.3%
£626,294 £593,285
-
Net assets
-4.6%
£8,291,166 £7,909,928
-
Employees
+6.3%
189 201
-
Operating profit
+68.4%
-£867,984 -£274,238
-
Profit before tax
+71.4%
-£856,984 -£245,238
-
Wages
+6.2%
£4,220,413 £4,482,639
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