THE BRICKFIELDS TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-18 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
-14.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£22M
-0.9% vs 2024
Employees
235
+1.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£48K
-100.4% 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 | £20,015,740 | £9,800,638 | |
| Operating profit | £10,945,389 | -£92,997 | |
| Profit before tax | £10,970,577 | -£47,978 | |
| Net profit | £10,970,577 | -£47,978 | |
| Cash | £2,081,454 | £1,779,250 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £22,791,299 | £22,574,804 | |
| Net assets | £22,705,055 | £22,490,076 | |
| Equity | £22,705,055 | £22,490,076 | |
| Average employees | 231 | 235 | |
| Wages | £5,329,456 | £5,904,727 |
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 | 54.7% | -0.9% | |
| Net margin | 54.8% | -0.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 48.0% | -0.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 2.2% | 2.4% | |
| Current ratio | 6.80x | 4.70x |
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
- MWS Accountants Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that The Brickfields 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
- “In September 2023, The Brickfields Trust formally merged with HERA Academy Trust based in Chelmsford, including Kings Road Primary School and Lawford Mead Primary & Nursery School.”
- “All four trust schools received an Ofsted inspection in 2025 and were judged to have taken effective action to maintain the Good standards identified in the previous inspections.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOTTRILL-LAWSON, Tommas Philip | Director | 2026-01-23 | May 1983 | British |
| BROWN, Antony Martin | Director | 2023-09-01 | Sep 1969 | British |
| BURROWS, Andrew James | Director | 2022-02-09 | May 1981 | British |
| CARROLL, James Ian | Director | 2026-01-17 | Nov 1987 | British |
| GAITELY, Caroline Pauline | Director | 2024-09-16 | Sep 1958 | British |
| LAMONT, Nicolette Joan | Director | 2019-12-13 | Mar 1957 | British |
| LINES, Jake Harrison, Lord | Director | 2025-11-05 | Sep 1993 | British |
| MORRIS, Rebecca Elizabeth | Director | 2022-02-09 | Jun 1983 | British |
| PIERCE, David Richard, Rev | Director | 2025-09-08 | Jun 1949 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL-SHAAR, Moira Helen | Director | 2017-01-31 | 2018-10-10 |
| BAKER, Dawn Michelle | Director | 2019-07-11 | 2024-07-16 |
| DABBS, Joanne Lyn | Director | 2016-12-23 | 2019-07-11 |
| GIDDENS, Josh Daniel James | Director | 2019-04-04 | 2025-03-10 |
| HIRSCH, Daniel | Director | 2022-02-09 | 2024-10-07 |
| JUDGE, Adam | Director | 2016-12-23 | 2017-03-30 |
| KNIGHT, Andrew Dennis | Director | 2017-05-26 | 2021-11-03 |
| MONTAGUE, Andrew | Director | 2023-10-08 | 2025-03-10 |
| NORMAN, Marianne Louise | Director | 2016-12-23 | 2022-02-09 |
| O'DEA, Hayley | Director | 2017-02-01 | 2023-08-31 |
| O'DEA, Hayley | Director | 2016-12-23 | 2023-09-01 |
| PARTRIDGE, Sally | Director | 2023-09-01 | 2023-09-01 |
| PAVELIN, Georgina Lauren | Director | 2021-09-14 | 2024-01-05 |
| PUDDICK, Judith | Director | 2016-12-23 | 2018-10-18 |
| RICHARDSON, Karen Julia | Director | 2023-09-06 | 2024-03-27 |
| SMITH, Daniel | Director | 2016-12-23 | 2020-09-14 |
| STOKES, Anna Eileen | Director | 2016-12-23 | 2019-09-12 |
| THREADGOLD, Sarah | Director | 2019-07-11 | 2025-08-31 |
| WELLS, Graham Kenneth | Director | 2019-04-04 | 2020-12-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 70 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-03-12 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-02-03 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-02-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-06 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2026-01-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-12 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-03-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-03 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-17 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-07-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- 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
-51%
£20,015,740 £9,800,638
-
Cash
-14.5%
£2,081,454 £1,779,250
-
Net assets
-0.9%
£22,705,055 £22,490,076
-
Employees
+1.7%
231 235
-
Operating profit
-100.8%
£10,945,389 -£92,997
-
Profit before tax
-100.4%
£10,970,577 -£47,978
-
Wages
+10.8%
£5,329,456 £5,904,727
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