MINSTER TRUST FOR EDUCATION
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-07 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-03-24
Watchouts
Cash
£7M
-21.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£17M
+2.8% vs 2024
Employees
642
+13.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£590K
-90.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 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 | £24,220,708 | £27,643,203 | |
| Operating profit | £6,315,145 | £565,205 | |
| Profit before tax | £6,314,890 | £589,621 | |
| Net profit | £6,314,890 | £589,621 | |
| Cash | £8,684,802 | £6,813,186 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £16,738,237 | £17,145,376 | |
| Net assets | £16,500,325 | £16,963,946 | |
| Equity | £15,670,325 | £16,963,946 | |
| Average employees | 564 | 642 | |
| Wages | £16,914,382 | £16,657,059 |
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 | 26.1% | 2.0% | |
| Net margin | 26.1% | 2.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 37.7% | 3.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 13.9% | 15.1% | |
| Current ratio | 3.96x | 3.23x | |
| Interest cover | 217.76x | 37.68x |
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
- Streets Audit 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
- “The Trust has strategic plans for growth and expects to increase in size in the coming twelve months. Three primary schools are progressing their conversions with the intent to join MITRE.”
- “Holy Trinity Church of England Infant School was subject to a two-day graded inspection in April 2025 and secured a strong outcome with three areas recognised as outstanding and two good.”
- “Bleasby Church of England Academy was inspected by SIAMS and received a strong report recognising the effectiveness of CofE education provided.”
- “On 1 March 2025 Coddington CofE Primary and Nursery School converted to academy trust status, and on 1 July 2025 Lowe's Wong Anglican Methodist Junior School and Kirklington Primary School converted to academy trust status under the Academies Act 2010 and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to Minster Trust for Education from Nottinghamshire 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
8 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITAKER, Andrew | Secretary | 2020-10-26 | — | — |
| ATKINSON, Michele Aline | Director | 2024-12-30 | Jan 1960 | British |
| HEPWORTH, Moira Ann | Director | 2018-03-28 | Sep 1963 | American |
| KIRK, Adam David | Director | 2025-11-13 | Dec 1973 | British |
| MARSHALL, Benjamin Robert | Director | 2025-12-10 | Aug 1984 | British |
| MAUNDER, Margaret Fairlie | Director | 2018-03-28 | Apr 1948 | British |
| PARRIS, Matthew James | Director | 2018-03-28 | Apr 1972 | British |
| WALKER, Antony | Director | 2020-04-14 | Dec 1961 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIES, Katie | Secretary | 2018-03-28 | 2020-10-15 |
| ALDRICH, Mark | Director | 2018-03-28 | 2023-03-31 |
| ANSTEY, Paul Marcin | Director | 2024-12-31 | 2025-11-26 |
| DENNIS, Samantha Jayne | Director | 2023-05-17 | 2024-09-24 |
| JONES, Jennifer | Director | 2018-03-28 | 2022-12-31 |
| MURRAY, Ruth Margarette | Director | 2018-03-28 | 2020-02-12 |
| PERNETTA, Rebecca | Director | 2024-12-31 | 2025-07-03 |
| POOLE, Diana Alice | Director | 2018-03-28 | 2025-03-26 |
| SHIELD, Robert Cedric | Director | 2018-03-28 | 2019-03-14 |
| SULLIVAN, Nicola Ann, Dean | Director | 2018-03-28 | 2024-03-08 |
| TURNER, Nigel William | Director | 2018-03-28 | 2025-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 44 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-04-20 MA Memorandum articles
- 2023-04-20 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-04-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-04-20 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2023-04-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
+14.1%
£24,220,708 £27,643,203
-
Cash
-21.6%
£8,684,802 £6,813,186
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Net assets
+2.8%
£16,500,325 £16,963,946
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Employees
+13.8%
564 642
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Operating profit
-91.1%
£6,315,145 £565,205
-
Profit before tax
-90.7%
£6,314,890 £589,621
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Wages
-1.5%
£16,914,382 £16,657,059
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