THE SMALLWOOD ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-21 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-07
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£143K
-2.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£5M
-0.5% lowest in 3 filed years
Employees
26
-3.7% lowest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £1,100,000 | £1,180,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | |
| Net profit | — | -£70,000 | -£33,000 | |
| Cash | — | £147,000 | £143,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £4,615,000 | £4,575,000 | |
| Net assets | £4,644,695 | £4,600,000 | £4,575,000 | |
| Equity | — | £4,600,000 | £4,575,000 | |
| Average employees | 27 | 27 | 26 | |
| Wages | — | £616,000 | £630,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £60,000 | £65,000 |
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
-
Turnover
+7.3%
£1,100,000 £1,180,000
-
Cash
-2.7%
£147,000 £143,000
-
Net assets
-0.5%
£4,600,000 £4,575,000
lowest in 3 filed years
-
Employees
-3.7%
27 26
lowest in 3 filed years
-
Wages
+2.3%
£616,000 £630,000
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | — | -6.4% | -2.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 2.5% | 1.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.83x | 1.72x | 2.20x |
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
“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 school will focus on the areas for improvement identified during the OFSTED inspection in July 2024”
- “The school is looking at enhancing all computer software to cloud based systems.”
- “Fundraising for all weather surfaces for the playgrounds.”
- “Improve site security with improved access gates and fencing at the front of the school”
- “Improvements to reduce carbon footprint with potential for solar panels, replacing all windows, upgrade lighting.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 25 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKES, Kathryn | Secretary | 2024-10-14 | — | — |
| CANHAM, Helen Jane | Director | 2019-10-14 | Oct 1958 | British |
| CARTER, Heather Ruth, Rev | Director | 2025-09-01 | Jan 1962 | British |
| GILSENAN, Emma Katherine Elizabeth | Director | 2024-12-11 | Aug 1983 | British |
| HALL, Howard James Henry Lorton | Director | 2022-04-26 | Feb 1965 | British |
| HOLT, Nicola | Director | 2023-02-17 | Dec 1977 | British |
| LEWIS, Iestyn | Director | 2021-04-01 | Jan 1980 | British |
| LOFTHOUSE, Oliver | Director | 2023-03-28 | Sep 1973 | British |
| PEAR, Thomas | Director | 2023-03-28 | Jun 1988 | British |
Show 25 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| TURNER, Laura | Secretary | 2023-05-22 | 2024-08-31 |
| BALL, John Edward | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2021-05-04 |
| BARBER, Lisa | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2021-02-08 |
| BARK-JONES, Rachel Clare Maylin | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2021-02-08 |
| BLYTHE, Mary Louise | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2014-10-31 |
| BORTHWICK, Iain | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2021-02-08 |
| BRACEGIRDLE, Julie Mary-Ann | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2018-10-15 |
| BRACEGIRDLE, Margaret Elizabeth | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2014-10-31 |
| CAIRD, Mike | Director | 2018-07-16 | 2023-03-28 |
| CIEKA, Ellen Doreen | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2014-10-31 |
| CUTTELL, Jeffrey Charles, Dr | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2019-10-14 |
| DICKINSON, Sarah Jayne | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2017-11-23 |
| EDLESTON, Alison | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2016-08-31 |
| LEWIS, Iestyn | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2019-07-16 |
| MANDER, Caroline | Director | 2016-01-09 | 2021-01-09 |
| MANSON, Timothy John Alexander | Director | 2021-02-08 | 2022-10-06 |
| NAYLOR, Anne-Marie, Rev | Director | 2020-07-07 | 2024-07-06 |
| PARKINSON-SYKES, Helen | Director | 2021-01-06 | 2022-07-31 |
| PRIEST, Julia | Director | 2019-07-16 | 2021-02-08 |
| RAYNER, Andrew | Director | 2021-02-08 | 2023-05-22 |
| RAYNER, Andrew | Director | 2021-02-07 | 2025-07-01 |
| STOCKELL, Richard Joseph | Director | 2019-02-25 | 2021-02-08 |
| STRUDLEY, David | Director | 2021-01-06 | 2022-02-07 |
| THOMPSON, Alexandra | Director | 2023-07-18 | 2025-10-24 |
| WAGSTAFFE, Jenny | Director | 2014-07-07 | 2022-07-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann-Marie Naylor | Legal person | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2022-11-01 | Ceased 2023-02-02 |
| Mr Timothy Manson | Individual | Appoints directors, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2021-02-08 | Ceased 2022-10-06 |
| Mr Iain Borthwick | Individual | voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, Significant influence | 2017-03-27 | Ceased 2021-01-01 |
| Mr John Edward Ball | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-05-04 |
| Mrs Lisa Barber | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-01-01 |
| Dr Jeffrey Charles Cuttell | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-10-14 |
| Mrs Rachel Clare Maylin Bark-Jones | Individual | ownership-of-shares-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-25-to-50-percent-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-03-27 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 84 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-24 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-09-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-23 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-22 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 2
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.