ST OSCAR ROMERO CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST

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  7 officer resignations in last 12 months

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

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  1 PSC ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

1. ST OSCAR ROMERO CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST 2024-11-21 → present
2. ST OSCAR ROMERO CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST LTD 2024-11-04 → 2024-11-21
3. SOUTH EAST LONDON CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST (SELCAT) LIMITED 2021-03-11 → 2024-11-04

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

Cooper Parry Group Limited

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.”

Group structure

1. ST OSCAR ROMERO CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST · parent
   1. St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive School
   2. St Mary's Catholic Primary School
   3. St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
   4. Coloma Convent Girls' School
   5. Notre Dame Roman Catholic Girls' School
   6. St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School [George Row]
   7. St Anthony's Roman Catholic Primary School
   8. St Columba's Catholic Boys' School
   9. St Peter Chanel Catholic Primary School
   10. St Thomas More Catholic Primary School
   11. Notre Dame Catholic Primary School

Significant events

• “The Trust changed its name to St Oscar Romero Catholic Academy Trust in March 2025.”
• “On 1 April 2025 Notre Dame Catholic Primary School converted to academy trust status under the Academies Act 2010.”
• “During the year the Trust entered into a settlement agreement for loss of office with its outgoing Accounting Officer. In entering into the settlement agreement, The Trust omitted to obtain prior approval from the DfE in accordance with section 5.13 of the Academy Trust Handbook 2024 in relation to the settlement package which included a special severance payment. The total settlement package was in a banding range of £125,000 to £130,000.”

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

Filings

17

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

4

last 12 months

Officers resigned

7

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +4.6%

  £40,897,392 → £42,786,481

• Cash

  +25.2%

  £5,910,325 → £7,396,816

• Net assets

  -9.9%

  £7,573,004 → £6,823,192

• Employees

  +16.3%

  657 → 764

• Wages

  +8%

  £22,079,930 → £23,851,652

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