ASCENDANCY PARTNERSHIP TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-09 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-26
Watchouts
Cash
£7M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£113M
Equity attributable
Employees
589
Average over period
Profit before tax
£112M
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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6 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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5 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
1-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
1-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £22,963,944 | |
| Operating profit | £112,351,643 | |
| Profit before tax | £112,351,643 | |
| Net profit | £112,351,643 | |
| Cash | £7,249,134 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £113,014,643 | |
| Net assets | £113,014,643 | |
| Equity | £113,014,643 | |
| Average employees | 589 | |
| Wages | £14,471,947 |
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 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 489.3% | |
| Net margin | 489.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 99.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 4.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.11x | |
| Interest cover | 7490.11x |
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
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees 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
- ASCENDANCY PARTNERSHIP TRUST · parent
- Manor Green School 1%
- Addington School 1%
- Brookfields Special School 1%
Significant events
- “Addington School and Manor Green School academised and joined the trust on 1 December 2024.”
- “Brookfields Special School academised and joined the trust on 1 March 2025.”
- “The Trust was successful in securing two Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) bids to replace outdated boiler and heating systems and to address fire safety requirements, both at Brookfields School.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, Penny | Director | 2025-03-13 | Aug 1966 | British |
| GILLARD, Corrina | Director | 2025-02-12 | Mar 1966 | British |
| HAWKES, Sarah Katherine | Director | 2026-03-25 | Feb 1976 | British |
| HOLLAND, Julie | Director | 2025-03-03 | Apr 1972 | British |
| PELLY, Richard | Director | 2023-07-27 | May 1951 | British |
| SEARLE, Cecile | Director | 2025-10-06 | May 1977 | British |
| SHATTOCK, Jonathan Ross | Director | 2026-02-26 | Mar 1964 | British |
| TISSOT DEMIDOFF, Catherine, Professor | Director | 2023-08-18 | Mar 1959 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGER, Julie-Ann | Director | 2023-07-27 | 2025-07-17 |
| COLLETT, Laura Mary | Director | 2025-01-20 | 2025-09-24 |
| PRIOR, John | Director | 2024-04-17 | 2026-04-15 |
| ROSSELL, Dawn Linda | Director | 2025-03-13 | 2026-02-26 |
| TREPTE, Mark | Director | 2023-07-27 | 2025-12-10 |
| VASA, Rita | Director | 2023-09-01 | 2025-11-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Fiona O'Donnell | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2023-08-18 | Ceased 2025-05-31 |
| Mr Edward Arthur Stevens | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2023-08-18 | Ceased 2025-05-31 |
| Dame Marcia Anne Twelftree | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2023-07-27 | Ceased 2025-05-31 |
| Mr Robert Posner | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2023-07-27 | Ceased 2025-05-31 |
| Ms Claire Louise Denning | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2023-07-27 | Ceased 2025-05-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 37 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-04-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-10-28 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-10-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-23 | RPCH01 | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2025-06-23 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-06-23 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-06-09 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-06-04 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-04 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-06-04 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 6
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
Latest filed period vs the prior one