MESSENGER EDUCATION TRUST
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-11 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-27
Watchouts
Cash
£317K
+104.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
-2% vs 2023
Employees
48
+29.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- MESSENGER EDUCATION TRUST 2024-11-27 → present
- HOULTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND MULTI ACADEMY TRUST 2016-11-28 → 2024-11-27
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,587,735 | £2,289,840 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £2,511,903 | -£123,732 | |
| Cash | £154,638 | £316,559 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,478,323 | £7,326,591 | |
| Net assets | £7,478,323 | £7,326,591 | |
| Equity | £7,478,323 | £7,326,591 | |
| Average employees | 37 | 48 | |
| Wages | £954,694 | £1,306,678 |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 158.2% | -5.4% | |
| Current ratio | 2.60x | 1.92x |
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
- Ellacotts Audit Services Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees, including all Committees, 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
- “On 22 May 2018 the Academy Trust had committed to a 125 year lease of the land it occupies from Warwickshire County Council for a peppercorn rent.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CULLEN, Bethan Louise | Director | 2024-09-16 | Oct 1977 | British |
| GIBSON, Helen Diane | Director | 2024-02-06 | Sep 1966 | British |
| GOLD, Stephen Eric, Rev | Director | 2016-12-05 | Feb 1967 | British |
| NAISH, Anna Lesley | Director | 2024-04-17 | Mar 1988 | British |
| NEWTON, Georgina Clare | Director | 2023-09-26 | Jan 1969 | British |
| WAINSCOT, Linda | Director | 2023-02-02 | May 1957 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAPTISTE, Samuel Winston | Director | 2022-06-14 | 2025-03-18 |
| COLEY, Lee | Director | 2016-11-28 | 2016-12-05 |
| DEDMAN, Timothy | Director | 2021-01-04 | 2021-12-16 |
| MORLEY-MCKAY, Yolanda Elizabeth | Director | 2022-08-05 | 2024-01-02 |
| NEELD, Daniel James | Director | 2020-12-09 | 2024-12-09 |
| O'BRIEN, Anthony | Director | 2017-03-01 | 2020-12-17 |
| POGSON, Rex Hartley | Director | 2016-12-05 | 2022-12-31 |
| SAWTELL, Christopher Hugh | Director | 2016-12-19 | 2023-09-28 |
| SIMMONS, Margaret Irene, Rev | Director | 2016-12-05 | 2019-07-19 |
| TAYLOR, Andrew Maurice Harcourt | Director | 2016-12-05 | 2025-01-02 |
| THOMAS, Johanne Elizabeth | Director | 2016-12-05 | 2025-01-31 |
| TRIBE, Paul Douglas Franklin | Director | 2016-12-05 | 2023-09-28 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban & Civic Group Limited | Corporate entity | Voting 25–50% | 2016-11-28 | Ceased 2025-01-02 |
| Coventry Diocesan Board Of Education | Corporate entity | Voting 25–50% | 2016-11-28 | Active |
| The Bishop Of Coventry | Legal person | Voting 25–50% | 2016-11-28 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 57 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-01-02 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-01-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-30 CC04 Statement of companys objects
- 2024-11-27 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2024-11-27 NE01 Change of name exemption
- 2024-11-27 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-27 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-02 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-01-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-30 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2024-12-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-27 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-11-27 | NE01 | change-of-name | Change of name exemption | |
| 2024-11-27 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2024-10-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
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Turnover
+44.2%
£1,587,735 £2,289,840
-
Cash
+104.7%
£154,638 £316,559
-
Net assets
-2%
£7,478,323 £7,326,591
-
Employees
+29.7%
37 48
-
Wages
+36.9%
£954,694 £1,306,678
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