FORWARD EDUCATION TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-14 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-30
Watchouts
Cash
£8M
+43% vs 2024
Net assets
£42M
+7% vs 2024
Employees
463
+8.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1M
+726% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £23,330,665 | £25,580,356 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £179,944 | £1,486,316 | |
| Net profit | £179,944 | £1,486,316 | |
| Cash | £5,339,298 | £7,635,400 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £41,252,981 | £42,088,296 | |
| Net assets | £39,347,646 | £42,088,296 | |
| Equity | £39,347,646 | £42,088,296 | |
| Average employees | 427 | 463 | |
| Wages | £11,502,480 | £12,247,500 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 0.8% | 5.8% | |
| Current ratio | 2.61x | 2.14x |
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
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- 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.”
Significant events
- “Following the end of the financial year, on 1 September 2025, responsibility for Lea Hall Academy passed to another multi-academy Trust. The transfer was at the request of the Regional Director, West Midlands.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
15 active · 26 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARNOTT, Emma Louise | Secretary | 2023-02-27 | — | — |
| SUPRA, Baljit Kaur | Secretary | 2019-12-09 | — | — |
| ALI, Razia | Director | 2025-09-15 | Oct 1967 | British |
| BURKE, Owen Everton | Director | 2025-01-31 | Nov 1957 | British |
| COFLER, Oliver Lewis | Director | 2026-03-11 | Jun 1968 | British |
| GAGER, Sarah Louise | Director | 2025-09-01 | Aug 1972 | British |
| ISLAM, Saif Ul | Director | 2025-09-01 | May 1977 | Indian |
| JOSHI, Vikash | Director | 2025-09-01 | Oct 1977 | British |
| LEVEY, Alison Elizabeth | Director | 2025-02-05 | Apr 1962 | British |
| MORGAN, Mark Alexander | Director | 2023-02-01 | Jun 1961 | British |
| PEYTON, Gail Jennifer | Director | 2025-07-09 | Dec 1965 | British |
| ROBERTS, Paul Vincent | Director | 2022-07-06 | Jun 1957 | British |
| SHIU, Kai-Wing | Director | 2025-09-25 | Sep 1977 | British |
| SMITH, Josh Alexander | Director | 2025-09-25 | Aug 1993 | British |
| STACEY, Pamela Anne | Director | 2025-09-01 | Jul 1962 | British |
Show 26 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARTON, Gregg | Director | 2019-03-06 | 2019-12-04 |
| CANTY, Catherine Ruth | Director | 2017-03-20 | 2026-05-05 |
| CASEY, Susan Mary | Director | 2022-09-01 | 2024-04-01 |
| DHILLON, Surinder Kaur | Director | 2018-05-10 | 2018-09-19 |
| EARL, Maria Francesca | Director | 2019-01-11 | 2025-01-28 |
| EDGERTON, Jane | Director | 2017-03-20 | 2021-12-31 |
| GREENWOOD, Anthony Victor | Director | 2017-03-20 | 2018-11-08 |
| HUSSAIN, Ayaz | Director | 2020-10-14 | 2021-03-31 |
| JOESBURY, Paul Alan | Director | 2024-06-14 | 2025-11-24 |
| JONES, Kerrie Elizabeth | Director | 2017-12-04 | 2018-04-15 |
| LANE, David Andrew | Director | 2019-03-06 | 2022-12-16 |
| MAHONY, Leanne | Director | 2024-06-23 | 2025-04-27 |
| MCMANUS, Paul | Director | 2025-02-12 | 2025-11-18 |
| MOLE, June Ann | Director | 2017-03-20 | 2018-02-26 |
| MURPHY, Frances Isabelle | Director | 2017-03-20 | 2018-02-22 |
| OSBORNE, Paulette Jean, Dr | Director | 2021-09-15 | 2022-08-31 |
| PATEL, Pankaj | Director | 2018-03-08 | 2018-11-22 |
| REDICAN, Helen | Director | 2017-03-20 | 2025-03-19 |
| REYNOLDS, Michael Stuart | Director | 2019-03-06 | 2020-09-28 |
| RICKETTS, Patrick Glenroy | Director | 2020-10-06 | 2023-12-31 |
| TAYLOR, Brensley Sidney Adrian | Director | 2017-03-20 | 2023-10-17 |
| TUDDENHAM, Ian Matthew | Director | 2023-02-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| VERNON, Roland Charles | Director | 2017-03-20 | 2019-01-14 |
| WALLIS, Tracy Jane, Dr | Director | 2017-03-20 | 2017-07-24 |
| WHITAKER, Jared | Director | 2020-09-30 | 2022-02-04 |
| YAPP, John Peter | Director | 2023-02-01 | 2023-05-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 97 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-06-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-05-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-03-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 18
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 9
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
+9.6%
£23,330,665 £25,580,356
-
Cash
+43%
£5,339,298 £7,635,400
-
Net assets
+7%
£39,347,646 £42,088,296
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Employees
+8.4%
427 463
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Profit before tax
+726%
£179,944 £1,486,316
-
Wages
+6.5%
£11,502,480 £12,247,500
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