ST FRANCIS CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-09 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-26
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+18.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£15M
+10.8% vs 2024
Employees
463
-7.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£721K
-86% vs 2024
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 | £19,867,866 | £22,437,874 | |
| Operating profit | £5,140,985 | £721,770 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,140,369 | £721,452 | |
| Net profit | £5,140,369 | £721,452 | |
| Cash | £2,001,349 | £2,375,854 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,488,652 | £15,082,795 | |
| Net assets | £13,504,362 | £14,968,814 | |
| Equity | £13,504,362 | £14,968,814 | |
| Average employees | 501 | 463 | |
| Wages | £11,789,240 | £12,586,069 |
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 | 25.9% | 3.2% | |
| Net margin | 25.9% | 3.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 35.5% | 4.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.53x | 1.66x | |
| Interest cover | 4371.59x | 720.33x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Marriott Gibbs Rees Wallis 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. For this reason, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Capital works have been undertaken in a number of schools relating to heating systems. The replacement of existing gas-fired heating plants with new sustainable systems using renewable energy such as air source heat pumps have seen a significant reduction in the use of fossil fuels and production of carbon.”
- “The Trust has now been under the current Executive Leadership for the last 2 years and has grown significantly during this time from 6 primary schools to 14 schools which includes 2 High schools (as of 1st September 2025).”
- “On 1 September 2025 the following schools transferred into the Trust: St Pius X Catholic High School A Specialist School in Humanities.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRAHAM, Sarah Louise | Secretary | 2025-03-02 | — | — |
| BROOKES, Rebecca | Director | 2023-03-07 | Jun 1983 | British |
| BRYNES, Russell Mark | Director | 2023-01-10 | May 1959 | British |
| FRANCE, Adele Diane | Director | 2022-05-18 | Aug 1968 | British |
| GILLATT, Timothy Hugh | Director | 2022-05-18 | Apr 1973 | British |
| HONE, Jacqueline | Director | 2022-10-31 | Sep 1962 | British |
| MCDONAGH, Martin | Director | 2022-09-06 | Jul 1961 | British |
| RYAN, John Charles, Father | Director | 2024-09-25 | May 1953 | English |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATCHETT, Kevin John | Secretary | 2022-01-24 | 2023-01-11 |
| WILD, Michelle Louise | Secretary | 2023-04-17 | 2025-03-01 |
| AINSLIE, Christopher William, The Reverend Father | Director | 2022-05-18 | 2025-11-11 |
| GRAHAM, Sarah Louise | Director | 2023-01-01 | 2023-01-01 |
| HAYES, William | Director | 2021-08-27 | 2022-01-31 |
| HELLIWELL, Margaret | Director | 2021-08-27 | 2022-09-01 |
| HUNT, Christiaan Francis | Director | 2021-08-27 | 2022-02-08 |
| KENT, Siobhan Mary | Director | 2022-11-01 | 2022-11-01 |
| MCCLAFFERTY, Sean | Director | 2021-08-27 | 2022-03-25 |
| MCLAUGHLIN, Helen Janet | Director | 2021-08-27 | 2022-09-06 |
| RYAN, John Charles, Father | Director | 2022-11-03 | 2024-09-19 |
| RYAN, John Charles, Father | Director | 2021-08-27 | 2021-10-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rev Peter Damien Mcguire | Individual | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2021-08-27 | Ceased 2023-06-29 |
| Diocese Of Hallam Trustee | Corporate entity | Voting 25–50%, Appoints directors | 2021-08-27 | Ceased 2023-06-29 |
| Rt Rev Ralph Heskett | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2021-08-27 | Active |
| Diocese Of Hallam Trustee Corporate Member | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2021-08-27 | Active |
| Rev Peter Damien Mcguire | Individual | Significant influence | 2021-08-27 | Active |
| Mr Ed Whittaker | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2021-08-27 | Active |
| Rev Desmond Michael Sexton | Individual | Significant influence | 2021-08-27 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 53 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-27 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-03-27 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-12 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-12 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-11 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-11 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-11 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-11 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-11 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-11 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-10 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-10 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-10 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-10 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-10 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-09 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
-
Turnover
+12.9%
£19,867,866 £22,437,874
-
Cash
+18.7%
£2,001,349 £2,375,854
-
Net assets
+10.8%
£13,504,362 £14,968,814
-
Employees
-7.6%
501 463
-
Operating profit
-86%
£5,140,985 £721,770
-
Profit before tax
-86%
£5,140,369 £721,452
-
Wages
+6.8%
£11,789,240 £12,586,069
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