MARITIME ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-19 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-05
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
-29.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£112M
+1% vs 2024
Employees
733
+1.8% 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 | £36,729,000 | £40,854,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £219,000 | £1,551,000 | |
| Cash | £7,638,000 | £5,385,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £111,326,000 | £112,453,000 | |
| Net assets | £111,326,000 | £112,453,000 | |
| Equity | £111,326,000 | £112,453,000 | |
| Average employees | 720 | 733 | |
| Wages | £20,220,000 | £21,537,000 |
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 | 0.6% | 3.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 1.3% | 2.0% | |
| Current ratio | 6.00x | 4.72x |
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
- Kreston Reeves Audit 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.”
Significant events
- “Maritime Children's Foundation is an independent registered charity that was set up in 2023/24 to ensure every Maritime Academy Trust child can have the support they need to ensure they thrive and realise their full potential.”
- “Continued investment in our facilities with three year capital plans in place and a rolling programme of major projects underway including new roofs in a number of our schools.”
- “The Trust's reputation has been further enhanced through its involvement in two forward-thinking initiatives. The CEO contributed to a national report on the future of Al in education and partnered with the British Council on a comparative study examining how technology is used in the UK and Singapore to support learning.”
- “Detailed condition surveys were carried out in September 2021. We have addressed the key concerns highlighted in this report with a set of roofing projects at Millennium; Bligh; Barnsole; Greenacres and Nightingale.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, Shafiq | Director | 2025-07-22 | Apr 1982 | British |
| ARMSTRONG-TAYLOR, Sarah Wendy | Director | 2019-12-17 | Apr 1975 | British |
| BECK, Tiffany | Director | 2016-07-06 | Jun 1981 | American |
| CHATLEY, Mark Alan | Director | 2024-02-19 | Aug 1983 | British |
| CROSSLEY, Nicola Jane, Dr | Director | 2025-12-17 | Nov 1974 | British |
| LU, Xinglin | Director | 2023-01-19 | Jun 1979 | Chinese |
| OBI-DRAKE, Louise | Director | 2020-04-08 | Jan 1985 | British |
| OSBORNE, Nicky Patrick | Director | 2016-07-06 | Feb 1978 | British |
| ZUCCOLLO, James | Director | 2025-12-22 | Apr 1983 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEVENS, Rachelle Christine | Secretary | 2020-09-01 | 2021-12-17 |
| ANDREW-PHILLIP, Jonas | Director | 2023-01-19 | 2023-09-12 |
| CAMPBELL, Thomas John | Director | 2020-09-22 | 2022-09-01 |
| COCKCROFT, David | Director | 2018-10-16 | 2022-09-01 |
| DHOLAKIA-WELLENS, Nidhi, Dr | Director | 2023-01-19 | 2024-12-18 |
| FITZWILLIAM, Martin | Director | 2023-01-19 | 2025-03-25 |
| GILLIFORD, Tom | Director | 2016-07-06 | 2022-08-31 |
| HASAN, Munir | Director | 2023-03-20 | 2023-11-01 |
| KORIN, Astrid Jeannette | Director | 2016-07-06 | 2023-09-01 |
| MILLER, Terry | Director | 2016-07-06 | 2018-10-16 |
| MYERS, Martin Antony Peter | Director | 2016-07-06 | 2021-03-02 |
| VACHHA, Pia | Director | 2016-07-06 | 2019-05-19 |
| VALENTINE, David | Director | 2021-02-09 | 2021-04-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Tiffany Beck | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-07-06 | Ceased 2018-01-10 |
| Mr Ben Hutchings | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-07-06 | Ceased 2018-01-10 |
| Mr Brian Valley | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2016-07-06 | Ceased 2018-01-10 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 66 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-01 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-02-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-03-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- 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
+11.2%
£36,729,000 £40,854,000
-
Cash
-29.5%
£7,638,000 £5,385,000
-
Net assets
+1%
£111,326,000 £112,453,000
-
Employees
+1.8%
720 733
-
Wages
+6.5%
£20,220,000 £21,537,000
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