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Next accounts due

2027-05-31 (in 1y)

Last filed for 2025-08-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-07-12 (in 2mo)

Last made up 2025-06-28

Watchouts

2 items

Cash

£4M

+2.2% vs 2024

Net assets

£50M

-0.7% vs 2024

Employees

752

+2.9% vs 2024

Profit before tax

Period ending 2025-08-31

Watchouts

Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31

Metric Trend 2024-08-312025-08-31
Turnover £34,121,000£37,507,000
Operating profit
Profit before tax
Net profit -£1,683,000-£729,000
Cash £4,179,000£4,273,000
Total assets less current liabilities £50,561,000£49,949,000
Net assets £50,063,000£49,700,000
Equity £50,063,000£49,700,000
Average employees 731752
Wages £20,393,000£21,805,000

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 2024-08-312025-08-31
Net margin -4.9%-1.9%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) 5.1%6.1%
Current ratio 2.27x2.20x

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
Buzzacott Audit LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The Trustees have concluded that the Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and there are no material uncertainties about the Trust's ability to continue as a going concern. The Trust is actively working towards an integration with Weydon Multi-Academy Trust. The proposed integration is subject to approval by the Department for Education and could take place in 2026. If the proposed integration goes ahead, The Prospect Trust, as a separate legal entity, would no longer continue and would then cease to be a going concern.”

Significant events

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

3 active · 9 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
DAWES, Maria Anne Director 2018-07-08 Jan 1964 British
NEEDHAM, Andrew Craig Director 2017-06-29 Aug 1956 British
TEAR, Alex, Canon Director 2021-04-01 Jan 1972 British
Show 9 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
BAGNALL, William Edward Hampshire Director 2017-06-29 2023-12-13
BAKER, Vicky Director 2023-12-13 2026-03-31
EYRE, Peter John Director 2017-09-01 2022-06-21
FREEMAN, James Director 2023-10-29 2026-03-31
JARVIS, Simon Charles Director 2017-09-01 2022-08-31
MAJURY, Robert Andrew Director 2017-09-01 2026-03-31
MCKENZIE, Shelia Director 2024-05-01 2026-03-31
SMITHSON, Joanne Sara Director 2017-06-29 2023-06-27
STOLAGIEWICZ, Andrew Director 2024-10-22 2026-03-31

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Mr Andrew Craig Needham Individual Voting 25–50% 2026-04-17 Active
Rev Gemma Michelle Hope Foster Individual Voting 25–50% 2026-04-17 Active
Mr James Andrew Lloyd Individual Voting 25–50% 2026-04-17 Active
Mr Bill Watkin Individual Appoints directors 2024-09-01 Ceased 2024-09-01
Rev Gemma Michelle Hope Foster Individual right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust 2023-09-13 Ceased 2024-09-01
Mr Andrew Lloyd Individual right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust 2023-09-13 Ceased 2024-09-01
Mr Neil Alan Hopkins Individual right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust 2023-09-13 Ceased 2024-03-31
Mr Andrew Craig Needham Individual Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% 2017-06-29 Ceased 2024-11-15
Mrs Catherine Rachel Anwar Individual Voting 25–50% 2017-06-29 Ceased 2017-11-01
Neil Alan Hopkins Individual Voting 25–50% 2017-06-29 Ceased 2017-11-01
James Andrew Lloyd Individual Voting 25–50% 2017-06-29 Ceased 2017-11-01

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 67 total filings

Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution

  • 2025-07-08 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
  • 2025-07-03 MA Memorandum articles
Date Type Category Description
2026-04-27 PSC01 persons-with-significant-control Notification of a person with significant control PDF
2026-04-27 PSC01 persons-with-significant-control Notification of a person with significant control PDF
2026-04-27 PSC01 persons-with-significant-control Notification of a person with significant control PDF
2026-04-20 PSC09 persons-with-significant-control Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement PDF
2026-04-14 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2026-04-14 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2026-04-14 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2026-04-14 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2026-04-14 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2026-01-29 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-07-08 RESOLUTIONS resolution Resolution
2025-07-03 MA incorporation Memorandum articles
2025-06-30 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-01-14 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-12-02 PSC08 persons-with-significant-control Notification of a person with significant control statement PDF
2024-12-02 PSC07 persons-with-significant-control Cessation of a person with significant control PDF
2024-12-02 PSC07 persons-with-significant-control Cessation of a person with significant control PDF
2024-12-02 PSC07 persons-with-significant-control Cessation of a person with significant control PDF
2024-11-15 PSC07 persons-with-significant-control Cessation of a person with significant control PDF
2024-11-08 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
13

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
5

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

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

Official Companies House page