FOREST OF DEAN TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-20 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-06
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
+13.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£18M
-1% vs 2024
Employees
240
+1.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£65K
-96.9% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
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 | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £2,092,000 | £42,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,112,000 | £65,000 | |
| Net profit | £2,112,000 | £65,000 | |
| Cash | £1,450,000 | £1,652,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £17,880,000 | £17,694,000 | |
| Net assets | £17,855,000 | £17,673,000 | |
| Equity | £17,855,000 | £17,673,000 | |
| Average employees | 237 | 240 | |
| Wages | £5,628,000 | £6,799,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £110,000 | £110,000 |
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
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-08-31 vs 2024-08-31
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Turnover
—
Not reported
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Cash
+13.9%
£1,450,000 £1,652,000
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Net assets
-1%
£17,855,000 £17,673,000
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Employees
+1.3%
237 240
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Operating profit
-98%
£2,092,000 £42,000
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Profit before tax
-96.9%
£2,112,000 £65,000
-
Wages
+20.8%
£5,628,000 £6,799,000
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 11.7% | 0.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 2.7% | 3.6% | |
| Current ratio | 3.70x | 2.99x | |
| Interest cover | 2092.00x | 42.00x |
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.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- FOREST OF DEAN TRUST 2020-03-30 → present
- DENE MAGNA SCHOOL 2011-07-06 → 2020-03-30
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- UHY Hacker Young (Birmingham) LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The board of Trustees is confident that the academy has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- FOREST OF DEAN TRUST · parent
- Dene Magna School
- Drybrook Primary School
- Forest View Primary school
Significant events
- “Drybrook Primary School has continued the significant achievement of operating the school on a cost neutral basis and repaying the deficit as per the repayment plan, they are now in year 3 of the 5 year plan.”
- “Drybrook Primary School increased enrolment with increased numbers of children enrolled with a waiting list for reception, which is a testament to the schools growing popularity and reputation.”
- “Drybrook Primary School infrastructure improvements: - Enhancements to our learning environment, with improved technical facilities and ICT provision across the school.”
- “Forest View Primary School investment across the school of new interactive teaching panels enhances the learning environment for the students on a daily basis.”
- “Forest View Primary School improvements to the school grounds and buildings - this includes infrastructure improvements to the drains that service the school.”
- “Forest View Primary School securing strong outcomes at the end of KS2 for the third year in a row since the Covid-19 pandemic.”
- “Dene Magna Secondary School upgrade and reorganisation of teaching environments for performing Arts and Music.”
- “Dene Magna Secondary School upgrade of the telephone system within the school to integrate with the other schools within the Trust.”
- “Dene Magna Secondary School review of photocopying provision across the Trust”
- “Dene Magna Secondary School review of the SEN and PP provision across the Trust - aligning services and resources across the schools.”
- “On 1 April 2024 the assets and liabilities of Forest View Primary School were transferred into Forest of Dean Trust.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 27 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAY, Janet | Secretary | 2011-07-06 | — | — |
| BRADY, Stephen James | Director | 2011-07-06 | Apr 1974 | British |
| FARBOWSKI, Lorna | Director | 2023-04-18 | Aug 1972 | British |
| MORGAN, Louise Christine | Director | 2025-09-23 | Jun 1992 | British |
| ROSE, Antony Alfred | Director | 2011-07-06 | Mar 1960 | British |
| WHITE, Lewis Charles | Director | 2026-04-14 | Aug 2002 | British |
Show 27 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMS, Peter Frederick | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2020-03-31 |
| ALBON, Scott | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2017-08-31 |
| ALCOCK, Jack | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2012-05-08 |
| CHARLES, Amanda Jayne | Director | 2015-05-18 | 2016-09-30 |
| DAILEY, Stephen | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2015-05-18 |
| DIDCOTE, Philip John | Director | 2017-09-19 | 2020-03-31 |
| FOOT, Jane | Director | 2017-09-19 | 2020-03-31 |
| GRAIL, Julian Thornton | Director | 2020-11-24 | 2025-11-19 |
| GREENWOOD, Roderick John | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2015-04-27 |
| GRIFFITHS, Tony | Director | 2024-04-16 | 2025-11-19 |
| HACKER, Kevin Michael | Director | 2015-05-18 | 2020-03-31 |
| HAINES, Walter Henry Daniel | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2016-09-01 |
| HARRINGTON, Adam | Director | 2018-05-01 | 2020-03-31 |
| HOLLAND, Louise | Director | 2018-05-01 | 2022-12-08 |
| HOLMAN, Jennifer | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2012-09-25 |
| JAMES, John Robert | Director | 2017-09-19 | 2019-02-12 |
| JONES, Stephen Paul | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2015-05-18 |
| MARKEY, Maxine Susan | Director | 2019-02-12 | 2020-03-31 |
| NUTT, Gareth Berriman | Director | 2014-06-17 | 2018-06-26 |
| PERYER, James Richard | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2018-01-16 |
| PITCHER-LEIGH, Liane | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2017-12-31 |
| REID, Matthew | Director | 2020-04-01 | 2025-11-19 |
| REID, Michala Jane | Director | 2017-09-19 | 2020-03-31 |
| ROBINSON, Brian Richard | Director | 2019-09-01 | 2020-11-24 |
| ROBINSON, Brian Richard | Director | 2011-07-06 | 2017-08-31 |
| RODERICK, Meryon Timothy | Director | 2020-11-24 | 2023-07-11 |
| WEISS, Paul David, Dr | Director | 2014-06-17 | 2021-06-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Robinson | Legal person | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2023-01-10 | Active |
| Father David Gill | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2022-07-20 | Ceased 2025-11-18 |
| Mr Walter Henry Daniel Haines | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2022-07-20 | Ceased 2023-07-11 |
| Mr Brian Richard Robinson | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2022-07-20 | Ceased 2023-01-10 |
| Mr James Richard Peryer | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2022-07-20 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 96 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-18 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-12-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-17 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-18 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-04-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-11 | PSC03 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-12-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 3
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.