THE DIOCESE OF NORWICH ST BENET'S MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-08 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-03-25
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
+18.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£14M
+14.3% vs 2024
Employees
476
+1.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £18,857,898 | £21,004,534 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £5,833,354 | £1,295,072 | |
| Cash | £1,562,935 | £1,854,705 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £12,365,302 | £13,701,374 | |
| Net assets | £11,985,302 | £13,701,374 | |
| Equity | £11,985,302 | £13,701,374 | |
| Average employees | 468 | 476 | |
| Wages | £10,916,727 | £11,611,159 |
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 | 30.9% | 6.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 12.8% | 10.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.65x | 2.01x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Larking Gowen LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the board of trustees has a reasonable expectation that the Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- THE DIOCESE OF NORWICH ST BENET'S MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST · parent
- Diocese of Norwich Education Services Company Ltd 50%
Significant events
- “On 1 July 2025 Pulham Church of England Primary School converted to academy trust status under the Academies Act 2010 and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to The Diocese of Norwich St Benet's Multi-Academy Trust from Norfolk County Council for £NIL consideration.”
- “At the year end, the Trust had committed to further expenditure of £320,086 in relation to the roof repairs at Harleston Sancroft Academy.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONK, Hannah | Secretary | 2025-09-30 | — | — |
| ALLEN, Christopher John | Director | 2026-02-04 | Sep 1974 | British |
| BEESON, Rachel Clare | Director | 2019-05-21 | Jan 1958 | English |
| BROWNSWORD, Sarah | Director | 2024-09-19 | May 1974 | British |
| CARLIN, David | Director | 2022-12-18 | May 1978 | British |
| CRANE, Priscilla | Director | 2020-09-01 | Jul 1979 | British |
| DEWSNAP, Eve | Director | 2021-01-22 | Nov 1978 | British |
| DUNNING, Paul Nicholas | Director | 2018-03-26 | May 1962 | British |
| HUGGINS, Terry | Director | 2023-03-15 | Aug 1952 | British |
| MORLEY, Simon | Director | 2025-11-03 | Nov 1958 | British |
| SMYTH, Alastair James | Director | 2025-11-03 | Oct 1984 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Danielle | Director | 2023-03-15 | Dec 1986 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADSHEAD, Helen Louise | Director | 2018-03-26 | 2018-09-14 |
| BUTLER, Michael Richard | Director | 2018-03-26 | 2021-04-30 |
| CORBETT, Frederick Joseph | Director | 2018-03-26 | 2025-07-31 |
| FRANKLAND, Edward | Director | 2018-03-26 | 2026-03-25 |
| GRIFFITHS, Kathy Donna | Director | 2022-04-06 | 2026-04-05 |
| HIRST, Kathryn Jane | Director | 2018-03-26 | 2020-05-26 |
| KERR, James | Director | 2018-05-09 | 2019-11-23 |
| MOYSE, Zoe | Director | 2018-03-26 | 2019-03-01 |
| OSBORNE, Teresa | Director | 2022-10-01 | 2022-10-18 |
| POTTER, Steven | Director | 2018-03-26 | 2022-09-26 |
| RIVERS, Geoffrey | Director | 2018-03-26 | 2026-03-25 |
| SOPER, Michael | Director | 2018-05-09 | 2022-08-31 |
| WEEKS, Paul John | Director | 2018-03-26 | 2024-10-23 |
| WOOD, Roger | Director | 2020-01-14 | 2020-12-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 51 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-30 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-08-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-04-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- Officers resigned
- 4
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
+11.4%
£18,857,898 £21,004,534
-
Cash
+18.7%
£1,562,935 £1,854,705
-
Net assets
+14.3%
£11,985,302 £13,701,374
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Employees
+1.7%
468 476
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Wages
+6.4%
£10,916,727 £11,611,159
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