REACH SOUTH ACADEMY TRUST

• ⚠

  Confirmation statement overdue

  Due 2026-05-09.

• ◆

  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Bishop Fleming Audit 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, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “The Regional Director for the South West notified the Trust on 6 March 2024 that the Secretary of State had approved Reach South to run the proposed new special free school in Gloucestershire. The school will provide 200 places for pupils with moderate learning difficulties and is expected to open in January 2027.”
• “The Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing, wrote to the Trust on 8 March 2024 to advise that the Secretary of State had decided that our application to establish an Alternative Free School for Wiltshire should proceed to the next stage of the process. It is anticipated that the new provision will open in 2027.”
• “Following a lengthy process with the DfE and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Local Authority, and following a listening period, final Ministerial approval for the phased closure of Parkfield School was granted following the general election in June 2024. Parkfield closed for all pupils except the current year-11s, on 23rd July 2024. 57-pupils in year-11 completed their GCSE courses during the academic year and the school closed fully in August 2025.”
• “The Trust is in advanced negotiations with the Transforming Futures Trust (TFT) Home Transforming Futures Trust and the DfE for the transfer of all of the TFT academies to Reach South. If all parties agree and the transfer is finally approved, then it is expected that the academies will join Reach South in February 2026.”

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

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +8.8%

  £48,666,158 → £52,965,632

• Cash

  -2.3%

  £8,227,685 → £8,035,342

• Net assets

  +0.3%

  £120,582,848 → £120,965,843

• Employees

  +6.6%

  926 → 987

• Wages

  +9.5%

  £26,262,888 → £28,767,520

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