HELIX ACADEMIES TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-22 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-08
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£49M
Equity attributable
Employees
362
Average over period
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HELIX ACADEMIES TRUST 2025-03-05 → present
- HELIX ACADEMIES TRUST LIMITED 2024-02-09 → 2025-03-05
Net assets
1-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
1-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,981,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | |
| Net profit | £49,979,000 | |
| Cash | £1,396,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £48,512,000 | |
| Net assets | £48,512,000 | |
| Equity | £48,512,000 | |
| Average employees | 362 | |
| Wages | £4,399,000 |
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 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 715.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 1.5% | |
| Current ratio | 4.34x |
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
- Auditor
- DJH Audit 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, the board of trustees continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The academies within the trust converted on 1 March 2025, from which point the charitable company started trading and operations.”
- “The academy trust carried out a limited amount of fundraising 3events during the year including non-uniform days and activities linked to national events.”
- “The academy trust has opted into the Department for Education's risk protection arrangement (RPA), an alternative to insurance where UK government funds cover losses that arise.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASHFORD, Sarah Ann | Director | 2025-02-04 | May 1968 | British |
| CAHILL, Janice | Director | 2025-02-04 | Apr 1958 | British |
| CAVANAGH, Paul | Director | 2024-02-09 | Jun 1954 | British |
| HORNE, Steven | Director | 2025-02-04 | Apr 1971 | British |
| KING, Sally Christina | Director | 2024-02-09 | Feb 1963 | British |
| MILNER, Caroline Mary, Dr | Director | 2025-02-04 | Oct 1965 | British |
| MORTON, Helen | Director | 2025-02-04 | Mar 1982 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 15 of 15 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-06-09 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-03-05 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2025-01-16 CC04 Statement of companys objects
- 2024-11-06 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type micro entity | |
| 2025-06-09 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-03-05 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2025-02-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-22 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2025-01-16 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2024-11-06 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-02-09 | NEWINC | incorporation | Incorporation company |
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
Latest filed period vs the prior one