KEYS ACADEMIES TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-24 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+34.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£68M
+5.2% vs 2024
Employees
476
+1.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£390K
+19.9% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- KEYS ACADEMIES TRUST 2025-02-12 → present
- PETERBOROUGH KEYS ACADEMIES TRUST 2017-12-12 → 2025-02-12
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 | £25,837,000 | £27,782,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£487,000 | -£390,000 | |
| Net profit | -£487,000 | -£390,000 | |
| Cash | £1,420,000 | £1,912,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £68,555,000 | £68,184,000 | |
| Net assets | £64,784,000 | £68,184,000 | |
| Equity | £64,784,000 | £68,184,000 | |
| Average employees | 469 | 476 | |
| Wages | £14,629,000 | £15,353,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -1.9% | -1.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 7.1% | 2.5% | |
| Current ratio | 1.94x | 1.69x |
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
- Moore
- 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 immediate foreseeable future. For these reasons, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- KEYS ACADEMIES TRUST · parent
- PKAT Trading 100%
Significant events
- “The Trust changed its name on 14 January 2025 from Peterborough Keys Academies Trust to Keys Academies Trust.”
- “During 2024/25 the Trust completed the installation of energy efficient LED lighting at its primary schools, improved plant to make it more energy resilient and commenced work on the previously adopted net zero strategy.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BATCHFORD, Lindsay | Director | 2023-09-01 | Sep 1962 | British |
| HIGGINS, Claire Patricia | Director | 2017-12-12 | Mar 1963 | British |
| MARANDU, Charles Mathias | Director | 2024-12-13 | Dec 1980 | British |
| PACITTI, Adriano | Director | 2017-12-12 | Jun 1978 | British |
| PLAMENOVA KOUUMDJIEFF, Stela | Director | 2023-06-20 | Jan 1977 | British |
| WILLIAMSON, Tom, Dr | Director | 2023-06-20 | Apr 1985 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAMPNESS, Bernard Martin | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2022-05-27 |
| FISH, Michael Geoffrey | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2018-11-02 |
| HAMMOND, Colin Graham | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2025-11-18 |
| HEDGES, Tracey Elizabeth | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2023-01-05 |
| KERRY, William Peter | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2024-12-20 |
| LLOYD, Lisa Dawn | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2022-04-18 |
| RATCLIFFE, Simon | Director | 2024-12-13 | 2025-10-22 |
| SADLER, Alan Ralph | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2023-07-17 |
| SULEMAN, Amir | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2018-09-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 40 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-02-12 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2025-02-12 CONNOT Change of name notice
- 2025-02-12 NE01 Change of name exemption
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-15 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-10 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-11-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-12 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2025-02-12 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice | |
| 2025-02-12 | NE01 | change-of-name | Change of name exemption | |
| 2024-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
+7.5%
£25,837,000 £27,782,000
-
Cash
+34.6%
£1,420,000 £1,912,000
-
Net assets
+5.2%
£64,784,000 £68,184,000
-
Employees
+1.5%
469 476
-
Profit before tax
+19.9%
-£487,000 -£390,000
-
Wages
+4.9%
£14,629,000 £15,353,000
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