KALEIDOSCOPE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

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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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Bishop Fleming Audit 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, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “Ashcombe Primary School's large extension has completed its first year of operation. It has dramatically enhanced the school environment, facilities and offer to its school community.”
• “Becket Primary School has had works to repair its roof and internal improvements to toilets and furnishing in some classes. Becket also achieved the best Local Authority Award and South West Region winners of the Modeshift STARS sustainable travel to school award.”
• “Christ Church's Nurture Hub build was completed, and a purpose build environment is now in place and in use from September 2025. The school received an excellent audit report from Nurture UK.”
• “Crockerne's Nurture Hub has been successfully operating during the year. Its staff have received Nurture UK training and the children who have used it have benefited from the support they have received and the redesigned room they have access to. Crockerne has also received funding from the Bristol Port Authority which has supported improvements to the site, and the purchase of equipment.”
• “Worle Village achieved the Platinum Award for sustainable travel as part of the Modeshift STARS sustainable scheme.”
• “A number of our schools have had great success with the OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) Scheme transforming lunchtime play through a mentor-supported programme.”
• “We were unsuccessful in our Condition Improvement Fund Bid (CIF) to update the heating system at St Martin's. This bid will be resubmitted this year along with bids for new fire doors.”
• “We have developed a comprehensive Estates Plan based upon an external site condition survey at all of our schools. We are working through the priorities identified within this. Examples of the work undertaken last year include replacing a boiler at Crockerne, replacing some parts of the roof at Becket. Other improvements include replacing lighting with more efficient and sustainable LED systems across our estate.”
• “Trustees have decided to designate a further £500,000 of reserves for Estates/Health & Safety, School Improvement and ICT. This designated fund has been implemented following a review of key risks and objectives identified by Trustees and will be reviewed and monitored over the next two financial years. Further Reserves will also be designated to support and strengthen upcoming CIF applications for priority estates work as set out in the Kaleidoscope Estates plan.”
• “Trustees recognised that to address the management of financial risk across the trust and to ensure that no pupils across the trust were to be disadvantaged the pooling of Trust Reserves would be implemented from September 2024. The Kaleidoscope Reserve Pooling Policy and the Kaleidoscope Reserve and Investments Policy were adopted.”
• “The increasing numbers of pupils with high needs and SEND runs in parallel to a reduction in funding to support them. The risk is the impact of resources being redirected from other priority areas to meet their needs.”

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

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +5%

  £12,510,998 → £13,137,815

• Cash

  +21.3%

  £2,139,680 → £2,596,249

• Net assets

  +8.3%

  £28,355,239 → £30,704,775

• Employees

  -7.4%

  325 → 301

• Profit before tax

  +700.6%

  -£82,839 → £497,536

• Wages

  +3.2%

  £7,418,154 → £7,656,744

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