THE PILGRIM MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-02 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£500K
+50.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£11M
0% vs 2024
Employees
112
+13.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£21K
-99.8% vs 2024
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 | £4,362,000 | £5,385,000 | |
| Operating profit | £10,472,000 | £31,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £10,462,000 | £21,000 | |
| Net profit | £10,462,000 | £21,000 | |
| Cash | £333,000 | £500,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £11,168,000 | £11,166,000 | |
| Net assets | £11,168,000 | £11,166,000 | |
| Equity | £11,168,000 | £11,166,000 | |
| Average employees | 99 | 112 | |
| Wages | £2,592,000 | £3,101,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 240.1% | 0.6% | |
| Net margin | 239.8% | 0.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 93.8% | 0.3% | |
| Current ratio | 2.09x | 2.18x | |
| Interest cover | 1047.20x | 3.10x |
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
- Affinia (Orpington)
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that The Pilgrim Multi Academy Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, the Board of Trustees continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The Trust has seen pupils in its academies making good and outstanding progress during the year. Assessments until the end of July 2025 suggested that all schools were on-track to meet or exceed their targets.”
- “Rochester Riverside opened in its new building with 119 pupils, which has risen sharply to 235 by the end of this period. GAG income continues to be based on estimates but any shortfall come census is paid in the Spring of the following year.”
- “The Trust is growing more rapidly now Rochester Riverside's site is open, we are looking to again expand the central office team for September 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRADLEY, Katharine Marie, Dr | Director | 2017-06-01 | Oct 1977 | British |
| DEARDS, Nicole | Director | 2023-10-16 | Dec 1978 | English |
| GARDINER, Edward James | Director | 2018-09-01 | Jul 1983 | British |
| SMITH, Michael James | Director | 2016-12-06 | Jan 1949 | British |
| SWAIN, Sarah | Director | 2020-10-01 | Aug 1981 | British |
| TAYLOR, Janet Elizabeth | Director | 2016-09-19 | Mar 1964 | British |
| THORNELOE, Harriet | Director | 2017-09-22 | Nov 1977 | British |
| WILKES, Mark | Director | 2016-09-19 | Apr 1975 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENNETT, Anne Yvonne, Rev | Director | 2016-09-19 | 2020-09-18 |
| WOOD, Brenda | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2023-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 34 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-10-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-09-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-04-04 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2019-01-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
+23.5%
£4,362,000 £5,385,000
-
Cash
+50.2%
£333,000 £500,000
-
Net assets
0%
£11,168,000 £11,166,000
-
Employees
+13.1%
99 112
-
Operating profit
-99.7%
£10,472,000 £31,000
-
Profit before tax
-99.8%
£10,462,000 £21,000
-
Wages
+19.6%
£2,592,000 £3,101,000
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