HORNCHURCH ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-18 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+19% vs 2024
Net assets
£36M
+2.9% vs 2024
Employees
268
+15% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1M
+48.3% 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 | £12,650,018 | £13,625,350 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £772,421 | £1,145,828 | |
| Net profit | £772,421 | £1,145,828 | |
| Cash | £2,327,308 | £2,768,433 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £34,645,892 | £35,635,519 | |
| Net assets | £34,588,435 | £35,597,263 | |
| Equity | £34,588,435 | £35,597,263 | |
| Average employees | 233 | 268 | |
| Wages | £6,640,823 | £7,182,460 |
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 | 6.1% | 8.4% | |
| Current ratio | 3.80x | 3.62x |
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 Academy Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- HORNCHURCH ACADEMY TRUST · parent
- HAT Enterprises Ltd
Significant events
- “2024-25 included three successful Ofsted inspections for the Trust. This included Shears Green Infant School first inspection as part of the Trust, Whybridge Junior School who achieved an 'outstanding' judgement for Behaviour and Attitudes.”
- “Physical improvements to the school sites include completed works from CIF funding 2024, whilst additional works in all schools as a result of successful CIF funding 2024 totalling £327k will further improve the Trust estate, mitigate future risk and reduce liabilities.”
- “Capital works have been undertaken at Scargill Infant School, following a successful application for the School Based Nursery Grant providing funding to expand on the nursery provision (£135,000).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON, Victoria | Secretary | 2022-01-04 | — | — |
| ADAMS, Sophie Alice | Director | 2024-07-11 | Apr 1993 | British |
| HOBSON, Christopher William | Director | 2017-05-09 | Sep 1975 | British |
| LACY, Eve | Director | 2017-05-09 | Sep 1965 | British |
| PEPPER, Matthew James | Director | 2018-09-27 | Apr 1972 | British |
| PITT, Keri Denise | Director | 2018-09-27 | Jul 1973 | British |
| RIDLEY-PEPPER, Catherine Louise | Director | 2018-09-27 | May 1977 | British |
| SAMPSON, Thomas Richard | Director | 2022-12-01 | Mar 1983 | British |
| THUMPSTON, Gillian Elizabeth | Director | 2017-05-09 | May 1951 | British |
| WEATHERLEY, Avril Dawn | Director | 2017-09-11 | Apr 1962 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BODLE, Debra | Secretary | 2017-05-23 | 2022-01-04 |
| BIRBECK, Christopher | Director | 2019-12-05 | 2023-12-06 |
| IRELAND, Amanda | Director | 2017-05-09 | 2018-07-11 |
| KEEPER, Kathleen | Director | 2017-05-09 | 2018-07-11 |
| KOBLE, Ivan Peter | Director | 2017-05-09 | 2017-09-11 |
| PIKE, David John | Director | 2017-05-09 | 2018-06-21 |
| TRAIN, Robert | Director | 2017-05-09 | 2024-03-19 |
| TURNER, Keith, Rev | Director | 2017-05-09 | 2019-12-05 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 47 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-04-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-04-20 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-03-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-05-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-04-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-04-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-04-25 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-04-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-04-20 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-08-31 vs 2024-08-31
-
Turnover
+7.7%
£12,650,018 £13,625,350
-
Cash
+19%
£2,327,308 £2,768,433
-
Net assets
+2.9%
£34,588,435 £35,597,263
-
Employees
+15%
233 268
-
Profit before tax
+48.3%
£772,421 £1,145,828
-
Wages
+8.2%
£6,640,823 £7,182,460
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