EDEN LEARNING TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-08 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-24
Watchouts
Cash
£13M
-0.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£117M
+64.3% vs 2024
Employees
1,048
+3.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£44M
+34.6% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC 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 | £80,070,000 | £101,147,000 | |
| Operating profit | £33,728,000 | £45,313,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £32,760,000 | £44,109,000 | |
| Net profit | £32,760,000 | £44,109,000 | |
| Cash | £12,680,000 | £12,567,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £72,849,000 | £116,711,000 | |
| Net assets | £71,004,000 | £116,674,000 | |
| Equity | £71,004,000 | £116,674,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,013 | 1,048 | |
| Wages | £25,530,000 | £30,616,000 |
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 | 42.1% | 44.8% | |
| Net margin | 40.9% | 43.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 46.3% | 38.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 6.4% | 3.3% | |
| Current ratio | 5.06x | 4.20x | |
| Interest cover | 31.79x | 34.17x |
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
- Clive Owen LLP
- 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
- “During the year ended 31 August 2025, total expenditure of £57,038,000 was exceeded by recurrent grant Funding from DfE/ESFA together with other incoming resources. The excess of income over expenditure for the year (excluding pension reserve movements and restricted fixed asset funds) was £1,778,000.”
- “On 1 November 2024 Woodlea Primary School and Aycliffe Village Primary and Nursery School converted to academy trust status under the Academies Act 2010 and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to Eden Learning Trust from Durham County Council for £NIL consideration.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASHTON, Malcolm Paul | Director | 2024-02-01 | Feb 1964 | English |
| BARNETT, Sean | Director | 2018-04-01 | Sep 1964 | British |
| BRENNAN, Kevin | Director | 2017-09-25 | Jan 1972 | British |
| CLARK, Doug | Director | 2020-10-02 | Apr 1971 | British |
| LUMSDON, Keith, Reverend | Director | 2017-09-25 | Jul 1945 | British |
| RAW, Stuart Colin | Director | 2017-09-25 | Jun 1992 | British |
| REED, Kenneth John | Director | 2020-09-15 | Aug 1956 | English |
| ROBERTS, Richard George | Director | 2017-09-25 | Feb 1972 | British |
| SOMERVILLE, Guy | Director | 2017-09-25 | Jun 1957 | British |
| STOUT, Garry | Director | 2018-04-01 | Jun 1959 | British |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIEVESON, Katherine | Director | 2018-04-01 | 2019-10-14 |
| LAVELLE, Irene | Director | 2017-09-25 | 2019-05-13 |
| SHEARER, David Alexander | Director | 2017-09-25 | 2018-06-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Liam Paul Fellows | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2024-03-21 | Active |
| Mr Jonathan Simpson | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2017-09-25 | Ceased 2024-05-13 |
| Reverend Keith Lumsdon | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2017-09-25 | Active |
| Mr Elliot Freeman | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2017-09-25 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 30 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-13 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-05-13 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-02-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-08 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-01-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2020-09-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
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Turnover
+26.3%
£80,070,000 £101,147,000
-
Cash
-0.9%
£12,680,000 £12,567,000
-
Net assets
+64.3%
£71,004,000 £116,674,000
-
Employees
+3.5%
1,013 1,048
-
Operating profit
+34.3%
£33,728,000 £45,313,000
-
Profit before tax
+34.6%
£32,760,000 £44,109,000
-
Wages
+19.9%
£25,530,000 £30,616,000
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