CHILDREN FIRST ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-26 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-04-12
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+81.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£60M
+0.6% vs 2024
Employees
542
+17.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£550K
-97.8% vs 2024
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 | £23,776,763 | £27,567,774 | |
| Operating profit | £24,553,516 | £549,659 | |
| Profit before tax | £24,553,516 | £549,659 | |
| Net profit | £24,553,516 | £549,659 | |
| Cash | £1,829,310 | £3,319,348 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £59,821,738 | £60,193,397 | |
| Net assets | £59,821,738 | £60,193,397 | |
| Equity | £59,821,738 | £60,193,397 | |
| Average employees | 460 | 542 | |
| Wages | £14,429,069 | £16,306,032 |
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 | 103.3% | 2.0% | |
| Net margin | 103.3% | 2.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 41.0% | 0.9% | |
| Current ratio | 2.13x | 2.19x |
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
- Buzzacott Audit 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. For this reason, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- CHILDREN FIRST ACADEMY TRUST · parent
- Brettenham Primary School
- Eldon Primary School
- Fleecefield Primary School
- Galliard Primary School
- Honilands Primary School
- Raynham Primary School
- Wilbury Primary School
Significant events
- “During the year 2024/25 the Trust has bought into a pooled service managed by the Local Authority that shares the costs of teaching and non-teaching Trade Union 'Facilities Time'.”
- “Our seventh school has joined the Trust”
- “This year we have partnered with TEP (The Engagement Platform) which will enable us to seek feedback from staff termly, with the aim of delivering change where staff satisfaction in lowest.”
- “On 1 September 2025, Honilands Primary School joined the Trust.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 5 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARKWRIGHT, Lucy Florence | Director | 2025-05-13 | Sep 1989 | British |
| CHRISTODOULIDES, Michael | Director | 2021-03-29 | Nov 1979 | British |
| CHRISTOFI, Gary Kyrialos | Director | 2019-02-19 | Feb 1975 | British |
| DUGGAL, Sukhvinder Singh | Director | 2025-07-09 | Oct 1973 | British |
| GILLING, Anthony | Director | 2019-06-01 | May 1958 | British |
| GREER, Winifred Maria | Director | 2019-02-19 | Jun 1964 | British |
| SEMENYUK, Inna | Director | 2026-03-18 | Jan 1983 | British |
| STANLEY-MCKENZIE, Rosemary | Director | 2019-02-19 | Jul 1959 | British |
| TOSH, Jennifer Margaret | Director | 2019-02-19 | Sep 1954 | British |
| WORMSLEY, Claire Louise | Director | 2021-03-25 | Jun 1963 | British |
| YEOMANS, Neil | Director | 2019-02-19 | Apr 1962 | British |
Show 5 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLES, Maria | Director | 2021-05-24 | 2021-10-18 |
| GRAHAM, Zahra Amina | Director | 2019-06-01 | 2020-12-09 |
| OLLEY, Ivor David | Director | 2019-02-19 | 2020-12-10 |
| RIORDAN, Eveleen | Director | 2023-07-12 | 2026-02-03 |
| SINCLAIR, Marcia Elaine | Director | 2019-02-19 | 2023-10-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 33 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-01-30 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-01-29 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-30 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-01-29 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-06-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-10-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-03-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-10-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-06-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
+15.9%
£23,776,763 £27,567,774
-
Cash
+81.5%
£1,829,310 £3,319,348
-
Net assets
+0.6%
£59,821,738 £60,193,397
-
Employees
+17.8%
460 542
-
Operating profit
-97.8%
£24,553,516 £549,659
-
Profit before tax
-97.8%
£24,553,516 £549,659
-
Wages
+13%
£14,429,069 £16,306,032
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