KINGFISHER LEARNING TRUST
Get an alert when KINGFISHER LEARNING TRUST files next
Leroy will email you the moment a new filing lands at Companies House — one short note per filing, nothing else.
Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-17 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-03
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+68.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£59M
+22.7% vs 2024
Employees
464
+18.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£2M
-0.5% vs 2024
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 | £16,011,496 | £21,286,265 | |
| Operating profit | -£2,314,640 | -£2,257,861 | |
| Profit before tax | -£2,419,078 | -£2,430,977 | |
| Net profit | £14,782,302 | £13,169,447 | |
| Cash | £2,185,298 | £3,689,915 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £48,093,338 | £58,998,786 | |
| Net assets | £47,958,658 | £58,864,106 | |
| Equity | £47,958,658 | £58,864,106 | |
| Average employees | 391 | 464 | |
| Wages | £9,077,803 | £11,810,963 |
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 | -14.5% | -10.6% | |
| Net margin | 92.3% | 61.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -4.8% | -3.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 5.2% | 5.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.68x | 1.71x | |
| Interest cover | -20.30x | -11.18x |
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
- Auditor
- Xeinadin Audit Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trust Board 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.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| REDMOND, Anne Sheila | Secretary | 2016-09-01 | — | — |
| ARTHUR, Eileen | Director | 2017-11-09 | Nov 1949 | British |
| AWAN, Nighat | Director | 2020-08-26 | Mar 1955 | British |
| BADOO, Henry | Director | 2025-07-16 | Mar 1982 | British |
| BRADBURY, Mark | Director | 2020-10-20 | Jun 1980 | British |
| CRABTREE, Helen Claire | Director | 2016-03-07 | Jan 1949 | British |
| DUNCAN, Ian | Director | 2017-11-07 | Apr 1956 | British |
| LUCAS, Deborah Jayne | Director | 2016-07-06 | Aug 1968 | British |
| MCGUIRK, Melanie Rose | Director | 2016-09-01 | Sep 1976 | British |
| MILBURN, Matthew Kenneth | Director | 2025-10-02 | Nov 1965 | British |
| SIMPSON, Danny | Director | 2020-10-20 | May 1981 | British |
| WALSH, Ian | Director | 2023-07-18 | Jun 1958 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FENNELLY, Kevin | Director | 2016-03-07 | 2016-05-19 |
| JACQUES, Paul Jean | Director | 2020-10-20 | 2025-08-31 |
| KOSTICK, Bernice | Director | 2023-10-18 | 2025-12-17 |
| MARK, Phillip James, Dr | Director | 2023-07-18 | 2023-11-01 |
| PEARSON, Philip Morgan | Director | 2016-07-06 | 2017-03-27 |
| REDMOND, Anne Sheila | Director | 2016-03-07 | 2023-12-12 |
| SUTCLIFFE, Jeremy Michael Tweedale | Director | 2016-09-01 | 2022-12-08 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 51 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-04-20 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2026-04-20 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2026-03-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-11-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-18 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-09-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
+32.9%
£16,011,496 £21,286,265
-
Cash
+68.9%
£2,185,298 £3,689,915
-
Net assets
+22.7%
£47,958,658 £58,864,106
-
Employees
+18.7%
391 464
-
Operating profit
+2.5%
-£2,314,640 -£2,257,861
-
Profit before tax
-0.5%
-£2,419,078 -£2,430,977
-
Wages
+30.1%
£9,077,803 £11,810,963
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