IRIS LEARNING TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-14 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-05-31
Watchouts
Cash
£716K
-3.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£15M
+0.1% vs 2024
Employees
167
+0.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£78K
+11.3% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
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 | £7,265,664 | £8,179,122 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £69,749 | £77,645 | |
| Net profit | £69,749 | £77,645 | |
| Cash | £741,388 | £716,236 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £15,316,263 | £15,330,908 | |
| Net assets | £15,316,263 | £15,330,908 | |
| Equity | £15,316,263 | £15,330,908 | |
| Average employees | 166 | 167 | |
| Wages | £4,434,424 | £4,667,717 |
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 | 1.0% | 0.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 4.3% | 2.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.80x | 2.62x |
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
- Azets Audit Services
- 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.”
Group structure
- IRIS LEARNING TRUST · parent
- Iris Learning Trading Limited 100%
Significant events
- “excess of revenue expenditure over income for the period (excluding inherited assets and liabilities, restricted fixed asset funds and before pension transfer) was £432,309.”
- “Results at Teesville at the end of Year 6 were disappointing and resulted in a Targeted Improvement plan being implemented”
- “Highfield academy have achieved, again, the best results in their history.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDREWS, Darren | Director | 2017-06-01 | Apr 1966 | British |
| CONLIN, Anthony | Director | 2019-07-03 | Jul 1981 | British |
| HILES, Kenneth Charles | Director | 2024-11-04 | Oct 1980 | British |
| HODGSON, Simon John | Director | 2024-09-01 | Feb 1962 | British |
| SMITH, Kevin | Director | 2024-09-01 | Nov 1982 | British |
| WALKER, David | Director | 2022-09-05 | May 1954 | British |
| WRIGHT, Samuel Martin | Director | 2024-09-23 | Sep 1978 | British |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CADD, Valerie | Director | 2019-07-03 | 2023-12-12 |
| CLYDE, Neil Macdonald | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2022-08-31 |
| COWLEY, Delia Jean | Director | 2020-12-01 | 2021-10-01 |
| DE MUSCHAMP, Debra | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2022-09-05 |
| ENGLISH, Ian Wesley Bryan | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| EVERETT, Sara Jane | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2019-06-13 |
| HORNE, Elizabeth Anne | Director | 2024-09-23 | 2026-03-20 |
| KEMP, Anthony | Director | 2019-07-03 | 2024-08-31 |
| KERR, Lewis Allan | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2018-12-17 |
| NICOL, James Bruce | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2024-09-16 |
| REAY, Jonpaul | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2019-06-16 |
| SCOTT, Philip Andrew | Director | 2017-06-01 | 2019-09-13 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Paul James Smith | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2024-10-24 | Ceased 2025-08-31 |
| Mr Paul James Smith | Individual | Shares 25–50%, ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-firm | 2024-10-14 | Active |
| Mr Ian Wesley, Bryan English | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2024-09-09 | Active |
| Mrs Delia Jean Cowley | Individual | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2020-12-01 | Ceased 2024-10-24 |
| Mr Simon John Hodgson | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust | 2020-05-08 | Ceased 2024-08-31 |
| Mr Darren Andrews | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2017-06-01 | Ceased 2020-12-01 |
| Lee Crosby | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2017-06-01 | Ceased 2020-05-08 |
| Vikkie Morton | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2017-06-01 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 59 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-14 | RP01PSC01 | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2026-03-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-02 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-19 | PSC03 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-05 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-07-07 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-07-07 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-07-07 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-07-07 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-07-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-05 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-04 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-10-03 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- 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
+12.6%
£7,265,664 £8,179,122
-
Cash
-3.4%
£741,388 £716,236
-
Net assets
+0.1%
£15,316,263 £15,330,908
-
Employees
+0.6%
166 167
-
Profit before tax
+11.3%
£69,749 £77,645
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Wages
+5.3%
£4,434,424 £4,667,717
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