REIGATE LEARNING ALLIANCE
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-23 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
+11% vs 2024
Net assets
£23M
+2.3% vs 2024
Employees
243
+4.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£590K
-27.5% 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 | £16,070,000 | £16,560,000 | |
| Operating profit | £352,000 | £217,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £814,000 | £590,000 | |
| Net profit | £814,000 | £590,000 | |
| Cash | £5,814,000 | £6,456,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £22,308,000 | £22,825,000 | |
| Net assets | £22,308,000 | £22,825,000 | |
| Equity | £22,308,000 | £22,825,000 | |
| Average employees | 233 | 243 | |
| Wages | £9,818,000 | £10,656,000 |
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 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 2.2% | 1.3% | |
| Net margin | 5.1% | 3.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.6% | 1.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 5.5% | 5.4% | |
| Current ratio | 4.96x | 5.58x |
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
- Buzzacott Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The trustees therefore have 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
- REIGATE LEARNING ALLIANCE · parent
- Castlefield Enterprises Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Failure to recruit, manage and retain high performing staff, both teaching and support, resulting in poor outcomes, although this risk has reduced during 2024-25”
- “Risk of abnormally high level of mental health issues impacting negatively on the welfare of students and staff”
- “Proposed DfE changes to the range of vocational qualifications impacts student recruitment, course choices and outcomes”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAIT, Claire | Secretary | 2025-03-10 | — | — |
| ARUMUGAM, Alvin | Director | 2025-12-08 | Jun 1985 | British |
| BOWEN, John Spencer | Director | 2018-10-18 | Oct 1967 | British |
| CLARK, Nicholas James | Director | 2017-09-01 | Dec 1982 | English |
| DOWNTON, Christine | Director | 2023-09-01 | Apr 1960 | British |
| DURRANI, Farouk Salim Khan | Director | 2018-10-18 | Jan 1951 | British |
| FRANKLAND, Patricia Mary | Director | 2017-09-01 | Nov 1955 | British |
| FULKER, Katherine Louise | Director | 2022-09-01 | Apr 1971 | British |
| ROBBINS, Yvette Anita | Director | 2018-10-18 | May 1960 | British |
| TOWNLEY, Deborah Claire | Director | 2024-03-01 | Jul 1972 | British |
| WHELAN, Christopher Peter | Director | 2017-07-10 | Mar 1967 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, Jonathan | Secretary | 2023-03-21 | 2024-08-31 |
| HEWES, Stephen Brian | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2025-01-31 |
| JONES, Michael Charles | Director | 2017-07-11 | 2022-08-31 |
| MCSHARRY, Ciaran Brian | Director | 2017-07-10 | 2018-04-09 |
| STEPHEN, Richard | Director | 2017-07-10 | 2023-07-31 |
| WEIDE, Gerard Willem | Director | 2018-10-18 | 2025-09-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Mark Fortune | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2017-07-10 | Ceased 2019-04-01 |
| Mr Michael Charles Jones | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2017-07-10 | Ceased 2019-04-01 |
| Christopher Peter Whelan | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2017-07-10 | Ceased 2019-04-01 |
| Ciaran Brian Mcsharry | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2017-07-10 | Ceased 2018-04-09 |
| Mr Christopher Wright | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2017-07-10 | Ceased 2018-04-01 |
| Mr Richard Stephen | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2017-07-10 | Ceased 2017-09-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 54 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-04-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-04-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-04-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-04-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-01-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-09 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-09 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-12-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-04-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-04-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-04-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
-
Turnover
+3%
£16,070,000 £16,560,000
-
Cash
+11%
£5,814,000 £6,456,000
-
Net assets
+2.3%
£22,308,000 £22,825,000
-
Employees
+4.3%
233 243
-
Operating profit
-38.4%
£352,000 £217,000
-
Profit before tax
-27.5%
£814,000 £590,000
-
Wages
+8.5%
£9,818,000 £10,656,000
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