WEST KIRBY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-03 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+9.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£12M
+2.8% vs 2024
Employees
125
-0.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£0
+100% 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 | £7,766,000 | £7,966,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£245,000 | £13,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£263,000 | £0 | |
| Net profit | -£263,000 | £0 | |
| Cash | £1,899,000 | £2,072,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £12,421,000 | £12,372,000 | |
| Net assets | £12,034,000 | £12,372,000 | |
| Equity | £12,034,000 | £12,372,000 | |
| Average employees | 126 | 125 | |
| Wages | £4,648,000 | £4,914,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £285,005 | £295,006 |
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
-
Turnover
+2.6%
£7,766,000 £7,966,000
-
Cash
+9.1%
£1,899,000 £2,072,000
-
Net assets
+2.8%
£12,034,000 £12,372,000
-
Employees
-0.8%
126 125
-
Operating profit
+105.3%
-£245,000 £13,000
-
Profit before tax
+100%
-£263,000 £0
-
Wages
+5.7%
£4,648,000 £4,914,000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -3.2% | 0.2% | |
| Net margin | -3.4% | 0.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | -2.0% | 0.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 7.6% | 6.7% | |
| Current ratio | 3.60x | 2.67x | |
| Interest cover | -13.61x | 1.00x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the academy trust's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
17 active · 38 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECKFORD, Andrew James | Secretary | 2022-10-04 | — | — |
| AKEHURST, Jerry | Director | 2024-09-19 | Apr 1968 | British |
| ATTARD, Alexia | Director | 2022-07-14 | Aug 1976 | British |
| BELL, Brian, Father | Director | 2022-12-05 | Mar 1964 | British |
| BISSETTE, Ross Michael | Director | 2025-06-02 | Jun 1981 | British |
| CLARKE, Simeon James | Director | 2020-09-01 | Jul 1984 | British |
| CLARKSON, Heather | Director | 2022-12-05 | Mar 1974 | British |
| COWAN, Abigail Emma | Director | 2025-06-02 | Jun 1977 | British |
| DAVIDSON, Elizabeth | Director | 2017-03-29 | Oct 1964 | British |
| HEIBEL, Robert | Director | 2022-07-14 | Oct 1985 | British |
| LIDGETT, Debbie | Director | 2022-07-14 | Jan 1972 | British |
| OWEN, Alex, Dr | Director | 2021-03-22 | May 1979 | British |
| SHORROCK, Katie Alexandra | Director | 2022-07-14 | Nov 1974 | British |
| TAMMA, Valentina, Dr | Director | 2022-07-14 | Aug 1968 | British |
| TOWERS, Louise Clare | Director | 2023-03-23 | Dec 1971 | British |
| WOODS, Matthew | Director | 2022-12-05 | Feb 1989 | British |
| YOUNG, John | Director | 2022-12-05 | Apr 1989 | British |
Show 38 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUFFY, John Graham | Secretary | 2015-07-07 | 2016-06-30 |
| MCDONALD, Nicola | Secretary | 2018-07-19 | 2022-10-03 |
| AKEHURST, Jeremy Charles Crighton | Director | 2016-12-01 | 2019-03-27 |
| ATTWOOD, Neil | Director | 2019-03-27 | 2022-07-14 |
| BEECH, Rachel | Director | 2019-05-23 | 2023-06-06 |
| BERRY, Michael | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2021-10-01 |
| BEVAN, Sophie Katherine | Director | 2018-06-28 | 2022-07-14 |
| BILTON, Charlotte Louise | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2016-06-28 |
| BOYD, Sally Ann | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2017-07-04 |
| BROADBERE, Lesley May | Director | 2012-09-01 | 2022-07-14 |
| CONBOY, Melissa Anne | Director | 2014-12-01 | 2018-08-31 |
| DUFFY, Alison Margaret | Director | 2014-01-01 | 2017-08-31 |
| ELLSON, Darryl | Director | 2013-07-03 | 2016-01-01 |
| FAVAGER, Deborah Anne | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2024-07-04 |
| GREEN, Jeffrey Edwin | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2015-06-28 |
| HAYES, Liam Peter | Director | 2013-10-02 | 2016-05-31 |
| HOWE, Lindsay | Director | 2021-03-22 | 2025-03-21 |
| JANIKIEWICZ, Teresa | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2016-06-30 |
| JONES CENG. BENG. MICE, Keith Malcolm | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2015-07-01 |
| KEHOE, Rachel Clare | Director | 2016-03-30 | 2018-12-03 |
| LEDINGHAM, Nicholas Orme | Director | 2015-12-01 | 2019-12-02 |
| MCCLENNON, Sheila | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2022-07-14 |
| MCCORMACK, Penelope | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2013-07-31 |
| MILNE, Alan | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2021-05-21 |
| RADCLIFFE, Lisa | Director | 2022-07-14 | 2022-09-12 |
| RAMPTON, Steven Mark | Director | 2013-07-03 | 2019-05-23 |
| ROBINSON, Glenice | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2013-08-31 |
| SARGENT, Elaine | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2020-08-31 |
| SAVERIMUTTO, Alistair Lionel | Director | 2015-12-01 | 2018-03-28 |
| SIMMONS, Malcolm Wallace | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2022-07-14 |
| TALBOT, Susan Anne | Director | 2015-09-21 | 2021-07-08 |
| THORNING, Stephen John | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2014-07-02 |
| VANE, Kevin | Director | 2021-03-22 | 2022-09-15 |
| WALL, Charles Terence Clegg | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2014-07-02 |
| WALLER, Andrew Mark, Dr | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2023-08-31 |
| WALLIS, Susan Erica Maria | Director | 2011-07-07 | 2021-03-22 |
| WILLIAMSON, Danielle | Director | 2018-12-03 | 2020-08-31 |
| YOUNG, Jonathan Paul | Director | 2012-09-01 | 2022-09-13 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Alison Margaret Duffy | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-07-01 | Ceased 2016-09-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 112 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-20 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-08 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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.