NORTH STAR ACADEMY TRUST

• ◆

  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

• ◆

  2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

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

Bishop Fleming Audit Limited

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.”

Significant events

• “The Trust's new free school Alternative Learning Provision (ALP), North Star 265°, based in Sea Mills, Bristol, met its completion date of September 2024 and opened.”
• “Aspire Academy, previously part of the Futura Learning Partnership, officially joined the North Star Trust on 1st July 2024 and became North Star 180°.”
• “The Secretary of State for Education approved the application to establish a new SEMH free school in Somerset, North Star Wells, which has entered the pre-opening phase.”
• “Our School was inspected by OFSTED and rated as 'Good' in February 2023.”
• “The defined benefit pension scheme reserve has an unrecognised surplus of £457,000 (2024 recognised deficit of £603,000) as it does not expect to recover the plan surplus.”

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

Filings

16

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +72.9%

  £6,201,047 → £10,721,603

• Cash

  +5.3%

  £2,365,965 → £2,491,345

• Net assets

  +5.5%

  £14,511,878 → £15,311,972

• Employees

  +85%

  80 → 148

• Wages

  +55.7%

  £3,219,080 → £5,012,496

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