HURST EDUCATION TRUST LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-24 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+72.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£10M
+8% vs 2024
Employees
353
+104% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£122K
-101.4% 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 | £6,687,576 | £13,789,418 | |
| Operating profit | £8,931,620 | -£153,290 | |
| Profit before tax | £8,941,171 | -£122,444 | |
| Net profit | £8,941,171 | -£122,444 | |
| Cash | £1,415,333 | £2,437,472 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £9,813,385 | £10,022,941 | |
| Net assets | £9,280,385 | £10,022,941 | |
| Equity | £9,280,385 | £10,022,941 | |
| Average employees | 173 | 353 | |
| Wages | £4,129,552 | £8,490,788 |
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 | 133.6% | -1.1% | |
| Net margin | 133.7% | -0.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 91.0% | -1.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 15.0% | 14.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.92x | 1.74x | |
| Interest cover | 1116.45x | -6.13x |
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
- Sumer Audit
- 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.”
Group structure
- HURST EDUCATION TRUST LIMITED · parent
- Albourne C of E Primary School
- Ditchling (St Margaret's) C of E Primary School
- St Wilfrid's C of E Primary School
- Bolnore Village Primary School
- St Peter's C of E Primary School
- Balcombe C of E Primary School
- Holy Trinity C of E Primary School
- Crawley Down Village Primary School
- St Mary's C of E Primary School
- West Hoathly C of E Primary School
- Tuners Hill C of E Primary School
Significant events
- “The trust's academies have a combined pupil capacity of 2,831 and had a roll of 2,738 in the school census in Autumn 2025.”
- “West Hoathly C of E Primary School and Tuners Hill C of E Primary School joined the Trust on 1 November 2025.”
- “The trust continues to grow healthily and following a strategic plan discussed and set out with the Trustees from both the Diocese of Chichester and Hurstpierpoint college. It is anticipated that the trust will comprise 14 primary schools by April 2026.”
- “During the year, two schools transferred into the Academy.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
11 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARPENTER, Darren John | Secretary | 2021-12-17 | — | — |
| BLOKLAND, Jantje, Rev | Director | 2026-01-22 | Nov 1982 | Dutch |
| CORBETT, Lesley Jane | Director | 2024-05-16 | Nov 1954 | British |
| CUMMING, Ruth | Director | 2021-12-17 | Jun 1965 | British |
| DILLON-ROBINSON, Paul Mark | Director | 2021-12-17 | Sep 1961 | British |
| HURST, Lesley Anne | Director | 2024-09-01 | Apr 1980 | British |
| JARVIS, Anthony | Director | 2021-12-17 | Mar 1945 | British |
| MACK, Karen Margaret | Director | 2021-12-17 | Sep 1966 | British |
| MARTIN, Angela Frances, Archdeacon | Director | 2021-12-17 | Mar 1966 | British |
| MOTT, Dominic William | Director | 2024-03-01 | Dec 1982 | British |
| OLWAY, Graham Charles | Director | 2024-05-16 | Oct 1963 | British |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERHANE, Beruk | Director | 2021-12-17 | 2025-12-01 |
| CRISTIN, Trevor David | Director | 2021-12-17 | 2024-08-31 |
| KEMP, William, Revd | Director | 2021-12-17 | 2024-01-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 18 of 18 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-26 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2021-12-17 | NEWINC | incorporation | Incorporation company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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
+106.2%
£6,687,576 £13,789,418
-
Cash
+72.2%
£1,415,333 £2,437,472
-
Net assets
+8%
£9,280,385 £10,022,941
-
Employees
+104%
173 353
-
Operating profit
-101.7%
£8,931,620 -£153,290
-
Profit before tax
-101.4%
£8,941,171 -£122,444
-
Wages
+105.6%
£4,129,552 £8,490,788
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