STEPHENSON MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-29 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2026-01-15
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
+87.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£25M
+7.3% vs 2024
Employees
160
+3.9% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£601K
-54.6% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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6 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- STEPHENSON MULTI ACADEMY TRUST 2018-06-19 → present
- RAINHILL LEARNING VILLAGE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST 2017-01-16 → 2018-06-19
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 | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £1,323,342 | £601,341 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,323,342 | £601,341 | |
| Net profit | £1,323,342 | £601,341 | |
| Cash | £1,504,850 | £2,816,638 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £24,269,705 | £24,758,779 | |
| Net assets | £23,075,372 | £24,749,713 | |
| Equity | £23,075,372 | £24,749,713 | |
| Average employees | 154 | 160 | |
| Wages | £6,358,548 | £6,541,126 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 5.5% | 2.4% | |
| Current ratio | 2.47x | 2.12x | |
| Interest cover | 22.43x | 12.03x |
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
- Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees 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.”
Group structure
- STEPHENSON MULTI ACADEMY TRUST · parent
- Rainhill Arts College CIC 100%
Significant events
- “The school has experienced a devastating ransomware attack (July 2021).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 15 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLACK, Kelley Lesley | Secretary | 2024-07-09 | — | — |
| BOYER, David Thomas | Director | 2017-01-16 | Jul 1965 | British |
| KAVANAGH, Connor | Director | 2025-03-07 | Feb 1996 | British |
| MELLOR, Maureen Kathleen | Director | 2023-12-15 | Apr 1947 | British |
| ROBERTS, Philip | Director | 2024-12-04 | Nov 1977 | British |
| SUDWORTH, Sophie Juliana | Director | 2023-09-01 | Jan 1994 | British |
| TAMBLINGSON, Sarah | Director | 2024-09-11 | Dec 1981 | British |
| THOMSON, Sylvia | Director | 2024-01-08 | Sep 1969 | British |
Show 15 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOROGOOD, Josephine | Secretary | 2023-07-13 | 2024-07-10 |
| ANDERSON, Steven John | Director | 2017-01-16 | 2018-08-31 |
| BOYER, John Peter | Director | 2017-01-16 | 2025-01-28 |
| CARTER, Tracey | Director | 2023-09-01 | 2024-11-26 |
| FLAHERTY, Lisa | Director | 2017-12-05 | 2021-01-31 |
| HUNT, Colette Marie | Director | 2021-05-17 | 2024-09-03 |
| MCALLISTER, Laura | Director | 2022-09-01 | 2024-04-13 |
| MELLOR, Maureen Kathleen | Director | 2017-01-16 | 2020-12-10 |
| PEERS-ZILKOVA, Michaela | Director | 2018-04-03 | 2020-12-10 |
| POUT, Derek Jonathon | Director | 2017-01-16 | 2019-08-31 |
| RICHARDSON, Wesley James | Director | 2021-05-17 | 2024-01-30 |
| ROONEY, Gerard Joseph | Director | 2017-01-16 | 2017-12-05 |
| SANDERSON, Mark | Director | 2019-08-01 | 2021-07-16 |
| THOMAS, Michael, Professor | Director | 2021-05-17 | 2023-06-06 |
| TOWNSON, Lee Adam | Director | 2023-04-25 | 2026-03-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miss Colette Hunt | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2025-01-13 | Ceased 2026-01-15 |
| Mr David Thomas Boyer | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2025-01-13 | Ceased 2026-01-15 |
| Mr Darron Grundy | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2025-01-13 | Ceased 2025-10-10 |
| Mr Steve Anderson | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2023-12-15 | Ceased 2026-01-15 |
| Mr John Boyer | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2023-12-15 | Ceased 2025-01-28 |
| Mr Gary Charlton | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2023-12-15 | Ceased 2025-01-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 74 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-01-24 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-01-22 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-15 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2026-01-15 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-15 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-15 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-10-13 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-03-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-03-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-29 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-29 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-24 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-01-22 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-01-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-17 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-17 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-17 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-17 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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
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Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
+87.2%
£1,504,850 £2,816,638
-
Net assets
+7.3%
£23,075,372 £24,749,713
-
Employees
+3.9%
154 160
-
Operating profit
-54.6%
£1,323,342 £601,341
-
Profit before tax
-54.6%
£1,323,342 £601,341
-
Wages
+2.9%
£6,358,548 £6,541,126
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