NORTH WEST ACADEMIES TRUST LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-03 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-01-20
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
+20.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£43M
+4.9% vs 2024
Employees
430
-1.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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2 PSCs 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 | £21,880,000 | £21,121,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £4,699,000 | £1,567,000 | |
| Cash | £1,344,000 | £1,624,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £42,203,000 | £43,595,000 | |
| Net assets | £40,663,000 | £42,669,000 | |
| Equity | £40,663,000 | £42,669,000 | |
| Average employees | 435 | 430 | |
| Wages | £9,854,000 | £10,930,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
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
-3.5%
£21,880,000 £21,121,000
-
Cash
+20.8%
£1,344,000 £1,624,000
-
Net assets
+4.9%
£40,663,000 £42,669,000
-
Employees
-1.1%
435 430
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Wages
+10.9%
£9,854,000 £10,930,000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 21.5% | 7.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.43x | 1.31x |
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
- Mitchell Charlesworth (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 continuc in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, it continucs to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- NORTH WEST ACADEMIES TRUST LIMITED · parent
- Millfields Primary Academy
- Calveley Primary Academy
- Acton Church of England Primary Academy
- Acresfield Primary Academy
- Oak View Academy
- Ellesmere Primary School
- St Martin's Academy
- Delamere Church of England Academy
- Grosvenor Park Church of England Primary
- Weaverham Primary
- Rudheath Senior Academy
- St John's CE Academy
Significant events
- “St John's CE Academy joining in January 2025.”
- “Kingsbourne Academy in Nantwich is due to open in September 2026.”
- “A resourced provision opened in September 2024 at Ellesmere Primary Academy.”
- “A new Headteacher was appointed in May 2024 at Grosvenor Park Primary Academy.”
- “Acton CE Primary Academy is part of a DfE pilot for a ground-source heat pump and benefits from solar panels.”
- “Calveley Primary Academy was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in February 2025.”
- “Millfields Primary Academy joined the Trust on 1 January 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OLIVER & CO SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2014-01-20 | — | — |
| ASKWITH, Angela Catherine, Rev | Director | 2022-09-01 | Nov 1958 | British |
| COOK, Kay Lisa | Director | 2017-10-01 | Mar 1971 | British |
| DOCKING, Stephen Edward | Director | 2014-01-20 | Sep 1971 | British |
| MELIA, Graham Peter | Director | 2024-05-13 | Nov 1960 | British |
| SMITH, Richard David James | Director | 2024-05-13 | Dec 1984 | British |
| SOUTHORN, Nayland Anthony | Director | 2022-11-21 | Nov 1954 | British |
| VERITY, Sandra Jane | Director | 2022-01-21 | Jul 1960 | British |
| WALMSLEY, Adrian Peter | Director | 2014-08-01 | Sep 1942 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPBELL, Paul | Director | 2022-04-01 | 2024-05-13 |
| COBB, Kirsty | Director | 2017-10-01 | 2025-10-01 |
| FORBER, Michael James | Director | 2014-01-27 | 2022-03-31 |
| JONES, David Neville | Director | 2017-10-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| LEACH, Emma | Director | 2024-05-13 | 2024-07-17 |
| MANN, John Bernard William | Director | 2014-01-20 | 2014-02-15 |
| O'DONNELL, Selena Ann | Director | 2014-01-20 | 2014-08-01 |
| OLLMAN, Elaine Margaret, Reverend | Director | 2017-10-01 | 2021-08-31 |
| ROBERTS-JOYCE, Julie | Director | 2017-10-01 | 2021-01-02 |
| WIGNALL, Brendan Joseph | Director | 2014-08-01 | 2024-01-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Nayland Anthony Southorn | Individual | Significant influence | 2024-01-25 | Active |
| Mr Iain Michael Colledge | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-09-15 | Active |
| Mr William John Anthony Timpson | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-09-15 | Active |
| Canon Christopher Robert Penn | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-09-01 | Active |
| Mr Adrian Peter Walmsley | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-01-28 |
| Mr Stephen Edward Docking | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-01-28 |
| Mr Brendan Joseph Wignall | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-01-25 |
| Mr Michael James Forber | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-03-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 74 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-12-30 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-12-28 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-03-03 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-14 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-13 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-12 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-28 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-28 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-28 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-30 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-12-28 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-07-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.