WARRINGTON PRIMARY ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-29 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+30.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£25M
+47.3% vs 2024
Employees
351
+15.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
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 | £15,267,008 | £17,153,914 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £32,330 | £8,283,351 | |
| Cash | £1,250,896 | £1,631,478 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £17,355,126 | £25,487,928 | |
| Net assets | £17,212,877 | £25,360,228 | |
| Equity | £17,212,877 | £25,360,228 | |
| Average employees | 304 | 351 | |
| Wages | £8,417,826 | £9,310,957 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 0.2% | 48.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.88x | 2.21x |
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
- Murray Smith LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trust Board has a reasonable expectation that the Academy Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, the Trust Board continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the accounts.”
Group structure
- WARRINGTON PRIMARY ACADEMY TRUST · parent
- Evelyn Street Primary Academy 1%
- Penketh Primary Academy School 1%
- Bruche Primary Academy 1%
- Beamont Primary Academy School 1%
- Alderman Bolton Primary Academy School 1%
- Ditton Primary Academy School 1%
- Kingsway Primary Academy School 1%
- Frodsham Primary Academy 1%
- Callands Primary Academy 1%
Significant events
- “In September 2026, we will open an all-through school as Bruche Primary becomes Bruche Academy. This will expand our provision into key stages 3 and 4 and be the first all-through school in Warrington.”
- “The Trust will also undergo a re-brand to prepare for this exciting development.”
- “On 1 April 2025, Callands Primary School joined the trust and all the operations, assets and liabilities were transferred to Warrington Primary Academy Trust.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KRESSEL, Carsten, Dr | Secretary | 2016-05-16 | — | — |
| BROWN, Alastair Aitken | Director | 2021-04-19 | Feb 1965 | British |
| BROWN, Juliet | Director | 2024-12-16 | Oct 1973 | British |
| CATCHPOLE BCS, Richard | Director | 2018-05-01 | Mar 1966 | British |
| LITTLEWOOD, David Lewis | Director | 2021-09-01 | Mar 1945 | British |
| NICHOLSON, Amanda Dawn Marie, Lady | Director | 2021-06-14 | May 1973 | British |
| PERKINS, Christopher James | Director | 2024-07-16 | Sep 1972 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BISHOP, Phillip Bishop | Director | 2018-05-01 | 2019-01-10 |
| CAHILL, Julie Ann | Director | 2016-05-16 | 2021-02-28 |
| CORLETT, Louise Jane | Director | 2016-05-16 | 2018-07-17 |
| CULL, Christopher | Director | 2019-02-04 | 2020-02-05 |
| DEAN SMITH, Catherine Ann | Director | 2018-04-27 | 2023-02-25 |
| FITZSIMON, Anna Louise | Director | 2023-05-26 | 2025-04-08 |
| FORREST, Christopher Andrew | Director | 2021-06-24 | 2023-07-20 |
| HUSSAIN, Sairah | Director | 2022-09-24 | 2023-05-05 |
| IVES, Andrea | Director | 2019-04-29 | 2020-03-04 |
| JOHNSON, Penelope Ann | Director | 2016-05-16 | 2019-07-16 |
| LENIHAN, Craig Joseph | Director | 2018-12-17 | 2019-09-25 |
| LITTLEWOOD, David Lewis | Director | 2019-07-25 | 2021-04-16 |
| MUIR, James Anderson | Director | 2017-04-26 | 2018-12-03 |
| MUIR, Lacy Nadine | Director | 2016-10-03 | 2017-04-25 |
| MURRAY, Richard Peter | Director | 2019-10-07 | 2019-12-06 |
| ROSS, Audra Bernadette | Director | 2016-05-16 | 2020-07-31 |
| SHARPE, Emma | Director | 2021-04-19 | 2025-04-08 |
| SHEPPEY, Lisa | Director | 2020-09-14 | 2022-03-20 |
| THOMPSON, Dave, Mbe Dl | Director | 2016-05-16 | 2018-12-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Wayne Trafford | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2022-09-07 | Ceased 2023-03-23 |
| Mrs Pauline Blyth | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2020-09-01 | Ceased 2022-01-19 |
| Mrs Diane Williams | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2019-09-16 | Ceased 2023-03-23 |
| Mrs Jill Martin | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2018-04-27 | Ceased 2023-03-23 |
| Mr Justin Collacott | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2018-04-27 | Ceased 2023-03-23 |
| Mrs Jill Patricia Greaves | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2018-04-27 | Ceased 2023-03-23 |
| Ms Julie Ann Cahill | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-05-16 | Ceased 2020-09-01 |
| Mrs Catherine Ann Dean Smith | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-05-16 | Ceased 2018-04-27 |
| Pam Worrall | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-05-16 | Ceased 2017-09-08 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 94 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-04-15 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-05 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-01-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-12 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2025-06-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-15 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-02-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-06-19 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2023-06-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-23 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-23 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-23 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
+12.4%
£15,267,008 £17,153,914
-
Cash
+30.4%
£1,250,896 £1,631,478
-
Net assets
+47.3%
£17,212,877 £25,360,228
-
Employees
+15.5%
304 351
-
Wages
+10.6%
£8,417,826 £9,310,957
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