PENK VALLEY ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-04 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-21
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£625K
-60.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£31M
-2.1% vs 2024
Employees
358
+0.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
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 | £15,632,000 | £16,587,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £996,000 | -£464,000 | |
| Cash | £1,599,000 | £625,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £32,304,000 | £31,567,000 | |
| Net assets | £31,760,000 | £31,090,000 | |
| Equity | £31,760,000 | £31,090,000 | |
| Average employees | 356 | 358 | |
| Wages | £8,619,000 | £9,357,000 |
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 | 6.4% | -2.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.87x | 1.14x |
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
- Cooper Parry Group Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As such, 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.”
Group structure
- PENK VALLEY ACADEMY TRUST · parent
- Marshbrook First School
- Princefield First School
- St John's CE First School
- St Mary & St Chad CE First School
- Penkridge Middle School
- The Rural Enterprise Academy
- Wolgarston High School
Significant events
- “new strategic growth opportunities and consequent funding streams and are actively seeking potential merger and collaboration opportunities with other Local MATs for 2025/2026 with an affiliate member joining from September 2025.”
- “installation of solar panels to heat the swimming pool at Wolgarston High School”
- “utilising an electric vehicle to transport food between our kitchens”
- “launched a Sustainability Group which drives its strategy across the Trust”
- “£0.5M was transferred to a 95-day notice account in April 2025”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MARSON, Janet | Secretary | 2022-09-30 | — | — |
| BLAIKIE, Helen Jane | Director | 2020-11-12 | Nov 1972 | British |
| GRIFFITHS, Craig | Director | 2020-12-01 | May 1982 | British |
| MAYCOCK, Kevin William | Director | 2023-09-01 | Oct 1959 | British |
| ROBERTS, Mark | Director | 2017-12-22 | Aug 1965 | British |
| SHIPMAN, David Christopher | Director | 2020-09-18 | Mar 1975 | British |
| SUTCLIFFE, Trevor John | Director | 2024-10-01 | Mar 1976 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Scott James | Director | 2022-06-15 | Jul 1988 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, Mark Peter | Secretary | 2019-03-04 | 2022-09-30 |
| TAPP, Philip | Secretary | 2017-12-22 | 2019-03-04 |
| BLACKBURN, Simon Philip | Director | 2017-12-22 | 2023-08-31 |
| DAVENPORT, Peter | Director | 2017-12-22 | 2022-03-31 |
| DEE, David | Director | 2017-12-22 | 2021-08-31 |
| EVANS, Brynley | Director | 2021-09-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| MACCOLL, Clare Jeannette | Director | 2020-09-18 | 2024-08-31 |
| METCALFE-CHASE, Lee | Director | 2024-09-01 | 2024-09-30 |
| MOON, Philip, Revd Preb | Director | 2019-07-10 | 2020-08-12 |
| NOAK, Clive John | Director | 2019-11-08 | 2023-08-31 |
| POULSOM, Michael | Director | 2017-12-22 | 2020-04-14 |
| SIZER, Julie | Director | 2017-12-22 | 2019-03-19 |
| TAPP, Philip | Director | 2017-12-22 | 2021-05-04 |
| WILDE, Denise Lynne | Director | 2017-12-22 | 2019-06-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 48 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-11-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-11-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-30 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-30 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-06-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
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
-
Turnover
+6.1%
£15,632,000 £16,587,000
-
Cash
-60.9%
£1,599,000 £625,000
-
Net assets
-2.1%
£31,760,000 £31,090,000
-
Employees
+0.6%
356 358
-
Wages
+8.6%
£8,619,000 £9,357,000
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