MATER ECCLESIAE CATHOLIC MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST

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  1 PSC ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Murray Smith LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trust have reviewed the medium-term financial forecasts which have been set as a worst-case scenario. The forecasts assume no staffing turnover, annual pay progressions for all eligible staff, 2% annual inflation on General Annual Grants and 3% annual inflationary increase on all staffing costs. The Trust is working closely with individual schools to put plans in place to address and improve their 2026/2027 budget positions, where necessary. The actual results for the relevant period are anticipated to be a significant improvement on the forecasted figures. Reserve levels are regularly monitored on both a Trust-wide and individual school level basis and Directors are satisfied that these remain adequate for both short and medium-term plans. Given the above, we have no concerns regarding the going concern of the Trust.”

Significant events

• “The Multi-Academy Trust was established on 1 December 2022 following approval from the Secretary of State for Education.”
• “The Trust operated with ten academies for the whole of the financial year 2024-25. Three further schools joined during the year, with the Trust ending the financial year with thirteen schools for pupils aged 3 to 16, serving the Preston catchment area. There were 3,089 pupils on roll in Trust schools by the end of 2024-25 (based on their reported October 2025 school census numbers).”
• “In the 2024-25 financial year, Trust leaders have successfully engaged, converted and on-boarded three more academies into the Trust.”
• “On 1 April 2025, St Mary and St Andrew's Catholic Primary School and on 1 May 2025, St Ignatius' Catholic Primary School and St Mary and St Michael's Catholic Primary School, joined the trust and all the operations and assets and liabilities were transferred to Mater Ecclesiae Catholic Multi-Academy Trust from Lancashire local authority for £nil consideration.”
• “On 1 September 2025, St Anthony's Catholic Primary School and St Mary's Catholic Primary School and on 1 November 2025, Holy Family Catholic Primary School joined the Mater Ecclesiae Catholic Multi-Academy Trust.”

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

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +41.1%

  £15,458,436 → £21,806,004

• Cash

  -48%

  £6,526,108 → £3,394,965

• Net assets

  +19.8%

  £2,886,254 → £3,459,092

• Employees

  +23.6%

  454 → 561

• Profit before tax

  -25.5%

  £1,193,442 → £888,838

• Wages

  +43.6%

  £8,856,963 → £12,720,498

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