DIOCESE OF ST ALBANS MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-09 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-26
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+37% vs 2024
Net assets
£10M
+12.5% vs 2024
Employees
555
+16.1% 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 | £22,072,000 | £25,367,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£745,000 | £221,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £630,000 | £1,618,000 | |
| Cash | £2,511,000 | £3,441,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,709,000 | £9,741,000 | |
| Net assets | £8,589,000 | £9,659,000 | |
| Equity | £8,589,000 | £9,659,000 | |
| Average employees | 478 | 555 | |
| Wages | £13,053,000 | £14,345,000 |
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 | -3.4% | 0.9% | |
| Net margin | 2.9% | 6.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -8.6% | 2.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.97x | 1.74x | |
| Interest cover | -1.06x | 0.26x |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As such, after making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Directors 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
- “As of September 2025, DSAMAT now represents 15 schools, over 550 employees and over 3,500 children from nursery through to sixth form. The Trust welcomed a further primary school after the year-end.”
- “Six Ofsted inspection took place in 2024/25. Thomas Whitehead CE Academy gained good in all areas, having previously been graded Requires Improvement.”
- “A key focus of the Board of Directors during the year was growth of the Trust and onboarding St Leonards school for the next academic year.”
- “On 1 September 2025, St Leonards, Heath and Reach, VA Lower School, converted to an Academy (as St Leonards CE Academy) and joined the Trust.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHARON, Alice | Director | 2023-02-27 | Jan 1982 | British |
| CARLYON, Sharon | Director | 2022-01-04 | Nov 1968 | British |
| ELLIS, Elizabeth Anne | Director | 2024-09-16 | Jul 1963 | British |
| GAULD, Duncan Charles | Director | 2025-10-14 | Jan 1973 | British |
| JENKINS, Jennifer Clare | Director | 2021-09-01 | Nov 1971 | British |
| JOHNSON, Janice Veronica | Director | 2025-07-09 | Aug 1962 | British |
| MACKENZIE, Janet, Archdeacon | Director | 2025-09-12 | Dec 1962 | British |
| MCCARTHY, Brian Joseph | Director | 2026-03-02 | May 1965 | Irish |
| RICHARDS, Alison Margaret | Director | 2020-11-01 | Nov 1955 | British |
| SALEM, Simon Joseph Ernest | Director | 2025-08-01 | May 1957 | British |
| SIZER, Helen | Director | 2023-09-21 | Apr 1971 | British |
| UNSWORTH, Lindsay Greta | Director | 2023-03-01 | Aug 1958 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORTON, David | Secretary | 2016-10-27 | 2019-07-09 |
| ATKINSON, Richard William Bryant, Revd | Director | 2016-10-27 | 2025-09-01 |
| BAILEY, Michael John | Director | 2019-09-01 | 2022-08-31 |
| BENNETT, Carole Anne | Director | 2019-03-04 | 2023-03-31 |
| COLEY, Lee | Director | 2016-10-27 | 2016-11-17 |
| COWAN, Daniel | Director | 2023-11-27 | 2024-12-20 |
| DALVAREZ, Natalie Marie | Director | 2023-04-01 | 2024-03-31 |
| DALVAREZ, Natalie Marie | Director | 2018-01-10 | 2019-07-09 |
| DICKENS, Paul Michael John | Director | 2017-04-27 | 2023-07-16 |
| FRASER, Lindsay Margaret | Director | 2016-11-09 | 2021-08-31 |
| HOARE, Norman Frederick | Director | 2016-10-27 | 2016-11-17 |
| HUMBER, Robin John | Director | 2016-11-09 | 2021-02-12 |
| MARSH, Jennifer Ruth | Director | 2020-02-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| MARTIN, Andrew Paul | Director | 2019-09-01 | 2023-07-16 |
| MORRIS, William George | Director | 2016-11-09 | 2018-05-06 |
| MORTON, David John | Director | 2016-11-09 | 2024-10-04 |
| WELLBELOVED, Andrew James | Director | 2016-10-27 | 2016-11-17 |
| WHALES, Shirley Barbara | Director | 2016-10-27 | 2016-11-17 |
| WILLIAMS, Anthony David | Director | 2016-10-27 | 2019-01-01 |
| DIOCESE OF ST ALBANS EDUCATIONAL TRUST | Corporate Director | 2016-10-27 | 2016-11-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diocese Of St Albans Educational Trust | Corporate entity | Appoints directors | 2016-11-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 73 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-03-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-03 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-11-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 5
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
+14.9%
£22,072,000 £25,367,000
-
Cash
+37%
£2,511,000 £3,441,000
-
Net assets
+12.5%
£8,589,000 £9,659,000
-
Employees
+16.1%
478 555
-
Operating profit
+129.7%
-£745,000 £221,000
-
Wages
+9.9%
£13,053,000 £14,345,000
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