ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-26 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-12
Watchouts
Cash
£4M
+6.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
+26.6% vs 2024
Employees
355
-0.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£1M
+7.8% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
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 | £17,656,000 | £18,508,000 | |
| Operating profit | £950,000 | £1,024,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £950,000 | £1,024,000 | |
| Net profit | £950,000 | £1,024,000 | |
| Cash | £4,183,000 | £4,472,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,924,000 | £6,827,000 | |
| Net assets | £5,391,000 | £6,827,000 | |
| Equity | £5,391,000 | £6,827,000 | |
| Average employees | 358 | 355 | |
| Wages | £9,737,000 | £10,435,000 |
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 | 5.4% | 5.5% | |
| Net margin | 5.4% | 5.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 16.0% | 15.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 26.0% | 16.9% | |
| Current ratio | 3.45x | 3.93x |
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 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.”
Significant events
- “On 1 July 2025 St Paul's Catholic Primary School joined the Trust. At the date of transfer, the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to the MAT for £nil consideration.”
- “The Trust is actively working with 6 catholic schools in the London Borough of Enfield with plans in place to convert these 6 schools from VA status to Academy status over the next 12-24 months.”
- “The government did not calculate Progress 8 (P8) this academic year due to the cancellation of KS2 exams during the pandemic.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRAFFORD, Odette Agnes, Dr | Director | 2023-09-01 | Nov 1968 | British |
| HARRIS, Peter Edmund Boyle, Father | Director | 2021-05-13 | Feb 1951 | British |
| JAMES, Mary Cecilia | Director | 2022-02-01 | Jul 1969 | British |
| PRINCE, Rachel Elizabeth | Director | 2025-01-10 | Aug 1981 | British |
| TISI, Dominic John, Dr | Director | 2023-07-19 | Nov 1973 | British |
| WILLIS, Lavinia | Director | 2021-05-13 | Sep 1973 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPANY, Catherine Mary | Director | 2021-05-13 | 2022-11-18 |
| FLATLEY, Honoria Leila | Director | 2022-11-14 | 2022-12-12 |
| HACKSLEY, Reginald Gregory, Dr | Director | 2021-05-13 | 2022-08-31 |
| LONG, Christopher Paul | Director | 2022-01-20 | 2022-11-20 |
| NICOLINI, Gaspare | Director | 2021-05-13 | 2022-06-22 |
| SMITH, Jonathan Charles | Director | 2023-02-03 | 2023-09-08 |
| TIMSON, David Alan | Director | 2021-05-13 | 2021-11-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop Charles Phillip Richard Moth | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2026-02-14 | Active |
| Cardinal Vincent Nichols | Individual | Appoints directors | 2021-05-13 | Ceased 2026-02-14 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 27 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-22 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-04-21 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2026-03-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-09-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
+4.8%
£17,656,000 £18,508,000
-
Cash
+6.9%
£4,183,000 £4,472,000
-
Net assets
+26.6%
£5,391,000 £6,827,000
-
Employees
-0.8%
358 355
-
Operating profit
+7.8%
£950,000 £1,024,000
-
Profit before tax
+7.8%
£950,000 £1,024,000
-
Wages
+7.2%
£9,737,000 £10,435,000
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