EQUALS TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-27 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-13
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
+13.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£53M
+13.2% vs 2024
Employees
641
+12.5% 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 | £23,015,000 | £27,964,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £2,095,000 | £5,617,000 | |
| Cash | £3,303,000 | £3,748,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £47,356,000 | £52,736,000 | |
| Net assets | £46,569,000 | £52,736,000 | |
| Equity | £46,569,000 | £52,736,000 | |
| Average employees | 570 | 641 | |
| Wages | £13,707,000 | £16,622,000 |
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 | 9.1% | 20.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 6.4% | 5.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.69x | 1.63x |
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
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquires, the Board of Trustees has reasonable expectation that the Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- EQUALS TRUST · parent
- Equals Trading Company Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “The Trust's fourteenth school, Sutton Bonington Primary School joined on 1st September 2024 and has been followed by Normanton on Soar Primary School on 1st October 2024, Round Hill Primary School on 1st February 2025, and both Kinoulton Primary School and Wadsworth Fields Primary School.”
- “Heymann Primary and Nursery School - Inspected October 2024 - Outstanding in Behaviour and attitudes, Personal Development and Early Years Provision. Good in Quality of Education, Leadership and Management.”
- “Brookside Primary School Inspected - November 2024 - Maintained standards identified at the previous inspection.”
- “Crossdale Primary School - December 2024 - Outstanding in Personal Development. Good in Quality of Education, Behaviour and Attitudes, Leadership and Management, Early Years Provision.”
- “Burton Joyce Primary School - January 2025 - Maintained standards identified at the previous inspection.”
- “Robert Miles Junior School - February 2025 - Maintained standards identified at the previous inspection.”
- “Keyworth Primary and Nursery School - March 2025 - Good in all areas.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 13 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COX, Catherine Emma | Secretary | 2016-09-07 | — | — |
| BINES, Richard Darren | Director | 2023-04-04 | Nov 1976 | British |
| COOK, Jenny | Director | 2025-09-01 | Dec 1976 | British |
| FOALE, Peter John | Director | 2016-07-14 | Apr 1954 | British |
| GILBEY, Robert | Director | 2025-09-16 | Apr 1966 | British |
| HAYLES, Victoria | Director | 2021-09-26 | Aug 1969 | British |
| KEAST, Christopher | Director | 2016-09-07 | Jan 1967 | British |
| MILLAR, Natalie Anne | Director | 2025-05-20 | Apr 1980 | British |
| PANAGAMUWA, Jean | Director | 2018-11-21 | Jan 1981 | British |
| WALKER, Bernard Ian | Director | 2016-07-14 | Dec 1953 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Lyndon Wyn | Director | 2016-07-14 | Nov 1969 | British |
Show 13 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAM, Zubair | Director | 2018-10-10 | 2021-08-31 |
| COOK, Tara | Director | 2016-09-07 | 2016-11-16 |
| DEMETRIOU, Alexander Sotiris | Director | 2016-09-07 | 2018-07-19 |
| HUGHES, John | Director | 2019-02-28 | 2024-05-13 |
| JAQUES, Susan Mary | Director | 2016-07-14 | 2021-07-14 |
| JOHNSON, David | Director | 2016-07-14 | 2018-12-12 |
| KENT, Barnaby Luke | Director | 2021-09-26 | 2025-01-01 |
| LAVENDER, Karen Elizabeth | Director | 2016-07-14 | 2018-03-06 |
| MORLEY, Lucy Anne, Dr | Director | 2016-07-14 | 2018-10-08 |
| PALMER, Philip Duncan Victor | Director | 2016-09-07 | 2025-08-31 |
| PATEL, Rashmi Morarbhai | Director | 2018-02-28 | 2022-05-27 |
| PLATTS, Kim Adele | Director | 2019-03-07 | 2021-05-20 |
| UNSWORTH, Philip | Director | 2021-10-13 | 2025-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 54 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-02-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-11-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
+21.5%
£23,015,000 £27,964,000
-
Cash
+13.5%
£3,303,000 £3,748,000
-
Net assets
+13.2%
£46,569,000 £52,736,000
-
Employees
+12.5%
570 641
-
Wages
+21.3%
£13,707,000 £16,622,000
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