ESTEEM MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST

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

Hart Shaw LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trust Board has a reasonable expectation that the 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

• “In September 2024 The Aspire Academy, Worcestershire, formerly a free school, joined the Trust.”
• “In 2024/25 Esteem MAT submitted applications for free schools in the latest round of DfE special free school development.”
• “In 2024 Esteem MAT completed the transfer into Esteem MAT of the provision of a 6th day support service for permanently excluded pupils within Derbyshire County Council. This was a service previously provided by the local authority and involved the TUPE transfer of 13 staff to Esteem MAT.”
• “Installed PV solar panels at Fountains High School in 2023/24. New buildings currently under construction at Fountains High School and St Clare's School will not include gas boilers / heating systems and have been designed with energy efficiency as a priority.”
• “Following a cost/benefit analysis connected to a lease of land, it was concluded that Esteem Multi-Academy Trust would surrender the lease early in favour of another site better suited to the Trust. The cost of the surrender premium was £600,000. Esteem Multi-Academy Trust received a letter from the Secretary of State on 7 July 2025 acknowledging receipt of the notification and confirming that the Secretary of State does not intend to make a direction in relation to the land.”

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

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +26.4%

  £42,152,150 → £53,263,336

• Cash

  +6.4%

  £10,253,649 → £10,905,904

• Net assets

  +23.3%

  £56,348,468 → £69,482,133

• Employees

  +15.7%

  959 → 1,110

• Operating profit

  -15.3%

  £1,537,008 → £1,301,520

• Profit before tax

  +72.6%

  £8,205,993 → £14,166,665

• Wages

  +24.6%

  £23,989,371 → £29,884,622

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