THE SIR JOHN BRUNNER FOUNDATION

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

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

Consolidated group

Auditor

Murray Smith LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the Foundation 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

• “Changes in government priorities following the change in the UK Government. There is still a degree of uncertainty affecting laws, policies and regulations in operation for the sector and we await the impact of the Curriculum and Assessment Review and changes to the Ofsted framework.”
• “Geopolitical change and instability remains an issue, with the impact of tariffs and armed conflicts affecting costs and supply chain.”
• “Estates risks including, but not limited to, RAAC and asbestos have been raised in profile.”
• “Maintaining a high level of quality of education across all of our academies is an increased risk as our Foundation both grows in size and we see the impact of declining birth rates in some academies.”
• “On 1 December 2023 The Macclesfield Academy joined the trust and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to The Sir John Brunner Foundation from The Macclesfield Academy for £nil consideration.”

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

Filings

11

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  -18.5%

  £41,946,311 → £34,182,024

• Cash

  -3.8%

  £7,219,222 → £6,946,454

• Net assets

  +2.3%

  £60,994,894 → £62,402,043

• Employees

  -1.2%

  492 → 486

• Operating profit

  -90.1%

  £11,401,620 → £1,132,149

• Wages

  +12.1%

  £15,337,250 → £17,185,929

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