ROMERO CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-04-11
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£7M
+3.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£8M
+23.2% vs 2024
Employees
851
-2.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£2M
-59.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-04-11.
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 | £41,733,219 | £48,304,468 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £5,309,179 | £2,138,403 | |
| Net profit | £5,309,179 | £2,138,403 | |
| Cash | £6,409,472 | £6,661,367 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,801,867 | £8,297,857 | |
| Net assets | £6,718,679 | £8,275,082 | |
| Equity | £6,718,679 | £8,275,082 | |
| Average employees | 873 | 851 | |
| Wages | £24,250,126 | £27,657,332 |
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 | 12.7% | 4.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 38.2% | 33.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.09x | 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
- WR Partners
- 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.”
Group structure
- ROMERO CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST · parent
- All Saints' RC High School 1%
- Blessed Trinity RC College 1%
- St Augustine's RC High School 1%
- Our Lady and St John RC High School 1%
- St Mary's RC Primary School, Bacup 1%
- St Joseph's RC Academy (Todmorden) 1%
Significant events
- “Three further schools were approved by the DfE at the February Advisory Board and will join the trust in 2025/2026.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LANG, Lauren | Secretary | 2024-12-01 | — | — |
| AGER, Angela Maria | Director | 2019-03-27 | Dec 1961 | British |
| BARLOW, Christopher | Director | 2024-07-09 | Feb 1972 | British |
| DEVINE, Paul Anthony | Director | 2025-01-07 | Aug 1963 | British |
| HALSALL, Joanne Elizabeth | Director | 2026-02-01 | Nov 1966 | British |
| HICKEY, Joseph Patrick | Director | 2020-03-02 | May 1968 | British |
| JOHNSON, Martin | Director | 2025-09-01 | Apr 1971 | British |
| MCDONALD, Peter David | Director | 2026-01-01 | May 1963 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITAKER, Helen Elizabeth | Secretary | 2022-07-01 | 2024-12-01 |
| CORRIGAN, John Francis | Director | 2020-03-02 | 2024-03-28 |
| FAIRCLOUGH, David Michael | Director | 2020-03-02 | 2021-09-20 |
| GREENHALGH, Gerard Francis | Director | 2020-03-02 | 2021-09-20 |
| GUNN, Philip Stanley | Director | 2020-03-02 | 2024-07-15 |
| MCMANUS, Johanna | Director | 2025-01-07 | 2025-05-12 |
| MCNICOLL, Donna Maria | Director | 2024-05-13 | 2025-01-22 |
| OWEN, Rachel Claire | Director | 2021-01-22 | 2022-06-06 |
| ROUSE, Rosemary | Director | 2022-09-06 | 2025-02-28 |
| SULLIVAN, Helen Elizabeth | Director | 2020-03-02 | 2023-05-15 |
| WALBANK, Nancy, Doctor | Director | 2022-06-01 | 2025-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Right Reverend John Stanley Kenneth Arnold | Individual | Appoints directors | 2019-03-27 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 49 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-02 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-07-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 2
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
+15.7%
£41,733,219 £48,304,468
-
Cash
+3.9%
£6,409,472 £6,661,367
-
Net assets
+23.2%
£6,718,679 £8,275,082
-
Employees
-2.5%
873 851
-
Profit before tax
-59.7%
£5,309,179 £2,138,403
-
Wages
+14.1%
£24,250,126 £27,657,332
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