THE ACADEMIES FOR CHARACTER AND EXCELLENCE

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  6 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. THE ACADEMIES FOR CHARACTER AND EXCELLENCE 2022-03-25 → present
2. THE ACADEMY FOR CHARACTER AND EXCELLENCE 2016-04-01 → 2022-03-25

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

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Albert Goodman LLP

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.”

Group structure

1. THE ACADEMIES FOR CHARACTER AND EXCELLENCE · parent
   1. ACE Enhanced Services Limited · operate pre-schools

Significant events

• “The Academy Trust operated 20 Primary schools across the South West of England as at 31 August 2025.”
• “The Trust's academies have a combined capacity of 4027 in Reception to Year 6 and the schools have a roll of 3271 as of 31st October 2025.”
• “ACE has an SLA with Bampton C of E Primary School, Burlescombe C of E Primary School, Combe Martin Primary School, Webber's C of E Primary School and Woolacombe School. These schools are due to join the Trust during the academic year 2025/26.”
• “The focus for the Trust in 2024/25 was to deliver on the first year of the Trust's vision to be an exceptional Trust.”
• “Cross Trust experiences were undertaken such as ACE Olympics and ACE at the Musicals.”
• “The Trust's first SEND base was opened at Hatch Beauchamp in collaboration with Somerset LA.”
• “The role of the Chef Educator has been to pilot a programme in St. Gabriel's, working with the youngest children and their families on healthy food choices, as well as improving the dining experience.”
• “The Trust completed the Holy trinity kitchen build, enabling the launch of a new in-house catering service.”
• “Major capital projects include the re-location of Shaldon pre-school and the development of an in-house kitchen at Holy Trinity. We were pleased to have been awarded 3 CIF bids: addressing fire safety (Newtown); heating upgrade (Baltonsborough); and critical drainage repairs at St Gabriels.”
• “During the 24/25 financial year, the Trust were successful in securing 3 Condition improvement fund bids (CIF), totalling £906,831.”
• “Funding was awarded through the School Based Nursery and Capital Expansion Nursery grant programmes, with £150,000 received from the Department of Education (DfE) and £439,789 from Devon County Council (DCC) totalling £589,789.”
• “This investment enabled the development of a new modular preschool building at Shaldon Primary School, providing high-quality early years facilities on the school site.”
• “During a year of continued growth, three schools transferred into the Trust, and a total of £8,970,731 conversion income was received.”
• “On 1 March 2025 the Milborne Port Primary School converted to academy status under the Academies Act 2010 and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to The Academies for Character and Excellence from the Somerset Council Local Authority for £Nil consideration.”
• “On 1 March 2025 the Baltonsborough C of E VC Primary School converted to academy status under the Academies Act 2010 and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to The Academies for Character and Excellence from the Somerset Council Local Authority for £Nil consideration.”
• “On 1 March 2025 the Stoberry Park School converted to academy status under the Academies Act 2010 and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to The Academies for Character and Excellence from the Somerset Council Local Authority for £Nil consideration.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

14

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

5

last 12 months

Officers resigned

6

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +28.8%

  £17,604,503 → £22,670,580

• Cash

  +24.8%

  £2,139,040 → £2,670,191

• Net assets

  +73.7%

  £13,117,272 → £22,783,480

• Employees

  +24.4%

  443 → 551

• Profit before tax

  +84.1%

  £5,400,368 → £9,940,208

• Wages

  +31.3%

  £10,447,910 → £13,718,543

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