EKO TRUST

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  Material uncertainty over going concern

  With effect from 1 April 2026, in accordance with a legal transfer of undertakings, all assets, liabilities and activities associated with Eko Trust will be transferred to Compass Partnership. For this reason, the Trustees do not deem it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a basis other than going concern.

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  11 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

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Buzzacott Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Material uncertainty disclosed

“With effect from 1 April 2026, in accordance with a legal transfer of undertakings, all assets, liabilities and activities associated with Eko Trust will be transferred to Compass Partnership. For this reason, the Trustees do not deem it appropriate to adopt the going concern basis and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a basis other than going concern.”

Significant events

• “In September 2024 three new schools joined the Trust. This increased the total energy use and gas emission but there has been a reduction in the CO2e per pupil.”
• “In 2024/25 the Trust operated 10 academies for pupils aged 4 to 18 in East London, Suffolk and Brighton & Hove. It has a pupil capacity of 3,290 and had a roll of 2,963 in the school census on 7th October 2024.”
• “The most significant growth decision taken by the Board of Trustees and Executive team during 2024-25 was to agree to a merger of Eko Trust with The Compass Partnership of Schools.”
• “On 1 September 2024, Ravenswood Community Primary School, Benfield Primary School and Hangleton Primary School transferred into Eko Trust. At the date of transfer, the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to the MAT for £nil consideration.”
• “The Trust also explored the use of AI to boost efficiency and reduce workload. A beta trial of Google Gemini with selected staff was extended into the summer term to gather more feedback, which will inform the decision on whether to commission a Trust-wide AI platform from September 2025.”

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

Filings

15

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

11

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +36.7%

  £21,973,000 → £30,030,000

• Cash

  +39%

  £1,911,000 → £2,657,000

• Net assets

  +10.4%

  £114,077,000 → £125,975,000

• Employees

  +56.4%

  337 → 527

• Operating profit

  -75.1%

  £44,774,000 → £11,137,000

• Wages

  +39.9%

  £11,667,000 → £16,319,000

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