THE CHERRY TREE TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£442K
-17.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£4M
+5.3% vs 2024
Employees
100
-6.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£85K
+172.3% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE CHERRY TREE TRUST 2017-04-20 → present
- BRITE TRUST 2015-09-25 → 2017-04-20
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 | £4,887,600 | £5,064,549 | |
| Operating profit | -£117,672 | £85,120 | |
| Profit before tax | -£117,672 | £85,120 | |
| Net profit | -£117,672 | £85,120 | |
| Cash | £537,285 | £442,001 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,474,991 | £4,524,598 | |
| Net assets | £4,244,510 | £4,467,630 | |
| Equity | £4,244,510 | £4,467,630 | |
| Average employees | 107 | 100 | |
| Wages | £3,194,881 | £3,346,645 |
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 | -2.4% | 1.7% | |
| Net margin | -2.4% | 1.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | -2.6% | 1.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 9.0% | 5.8% | |
| Current ratio | 3.46x | 3.45x | |
| Interest cover | -8.41x | 14.19x |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- 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, the board of trustees continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHAPMAN, Mark John | Director | 2023-10-05 | Nov 1976 | British |
| REYNOLDS, Joanne | Director | 2021-05-01 | Aug 1971 | British |
| RUDD, Sarah | Director | 2015-09-25 | Sep 1968 | British |
| STONE, Roger | Director | 2022-01-27 | Jun 1963 | British |
| WILD, Andrew Neville | Director | 2015-09-25 | Oct 1957 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAWSON, Barry Simon | Director | 2015-09-25 | 2020-11-01 |
| DEEGAN, Jennifer Grace | Director | 2018-11-08 | 2023-07-10 |
| ENDRESS, Steven | Director | 2021-07-01 | 2023-10-04 |
| HARROP, Brian Arthur | Director | 2015-09-25 | 2016-05-27 |
| LAMPARD, Dan | Director | 2015-09-25 | 2021-10-15 |
| MCKIE, John David | Director | 2015-09-25 | 2016-05-27 |
| PEAK, Marilyn | Director | 2016-07-04 | 2018-09-25 |
| THOMAS, David Andrew Bernard | Director | 2022-01-27 | 2025-12-02 |
| THOMAS, David Andrew Bernard | Director | 2016-07-04 | 2021-02-12 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Matthew Johnson | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-12-22 | Ceased 2022-02-01 |
| Mrs Leslie Culf | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-12-22 | Ceased 2022-02-01 |
| Mr Phil Moore | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-12-22 | Ceased 2022-02-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 50 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-02-02 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2022-02-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-02-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-02-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-01-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
-
Turnover
+3.6%
£4,887,600 £5,064,549
-
Cash
-17.7%
£537,285 £442,001
-
Net assets
+5.3%
£4,244,510 £4,467,630
-
Employees
-6.5%
107 100
-
Operating profit
+172.3%
-£117,672 £85,120
-
Profit before tax
+172.3%
-£117,672 £85,120
-
Wages
+4.8%
£3,194,881 £3,346,645
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