CARLTON ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-08
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
-15.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£176M
-1.5% vs 2024
Employees
946
+5.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£502K
-101.4% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-05-08.
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 | £76,742,398 | £52,196,940 | |
| Operating profit | £36,771,665 | -£1,117,604 | |
| Profit before tax | £36,112,670 | -£502,276 | |
| Net profit | £37,021,769 | -£2,395,168 | |
| Cash | £4,118,143 | £3,470,326 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £178,209,115 | £175,554,947 | |
| Net assets | £178,209,115 | £175,554,947 | |
| Equity | £178,209,115 | £175,554,947 | |
| Average employees | 894 | 946 | |
| Wages | £23,353,232 | £29,792,700 |
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 | 47.9% | -2.1% | |
| Net margin | 48.2% | -4.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 20.6% | -0.6% | |
| Current ratio | 3.93x | 3.78x | |
| Interest cover | 36.55x | -8.80x |
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
- BHP 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
- “Limited further expansion of the trust, comprising a maximum of three further schools.”
- “Continued research, development, and implementation of educational technology particularly the use of Artificial Intelligence to enhance efficiency and productivity.”
- “2024/25 was a very challenging financial year.”
- “High Park has required substantial financial restructuring to enable it to operate as a financial ongoing concern.”
- “Trust investments were transferred from Brewin Dolphin to Evelyn Partners in 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
12 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCHOFIELD SWEENEY LLP | Corporate Secretary | 2025-11-19 | — | — |
| ARNOLD, Gillian Mary | Director | 2019-06-11 | Feb 1957 | British |
| BELL, Heather | Director | 2023-11-10 | Oct 1971 | British |
| BRADSHAW, Gwendolen, Professor | Director | 2022-02-01 | Jan 1957 | British |
| BRITTON, Julia | Director | 2024-09-12 | Jul 1979 | British |
| BUTTERFIELD, Roger Paul | Director | 2019-04-25 | Feb 1946 | British |
| JAMIL, Rizwana | Director | 2025-12-15 | Jan 1970 | British |
| KNEESHAW, Adrian Phillip | Director | 2019-04-25 | Jun 1968 | British |
| LOGAN, Gareth David | Director | 2019-04-25 | Feb 1973 | British |
| MURPHY, David | Director | 2024-10-09 | Jan 1976 | British |
| ROGERS, Timothy | Director | 2024-06-19 | Jun 1985 | British |
| SINGH, Kash | Director | 2019-04-25 | Aug 1964 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHOFIELD SWEENEY | Corporate Secretary | 2019-06-18 | 2025-05-31 |
| HUSSAIN, Gull Riasat | Director | 2019-04-25 | 2024-06-19 |
| JAMIL, Rizwana | Director | 2019-04-25 | 2021-02-09 |
| KHAN, Faisal Hussain | Director | 2021-10-05 | 2025-10-04 |
| SHEIKH, Altaf Ahmad | Director | 2019-06-11 | 2023-07-11 |
| THOMPSON, David Noel | Director | 2019-04-25 | 2021-11-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Mohammed Ayub Laher | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-04-25 | Ceased 2020-03-01 |
| Mr Ishaq Shafiq | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-04-25 | Ceased 2020-03-01 |
| Mr Dean Kennedy Woodward | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2019-04-25 | Ceased 2020-03-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 56 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-27 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-01-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-25 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-06-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-05-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-05-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-05-07 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-05-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-23 | ANNOTATION | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2024-05-16 | ANNOTATION | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2024-04-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-22 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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
-32%
£76,742,398 £52,196,940
-
Cash
-15.7%
£4,118,143 £3,470,326
-
Net assets
-1.5%
£178,209,115 £175,554,947
-
Employees
+5.8%
894 946
-
Operating profit
-103%
£36,771,665 -£1,117,604
-
Profit before tax
-101.4%
£36,112,670 -£502,276
-
Wages
+27.6%
£23,353,232 £29,792,700
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