EVERY CHILD MATTERS ACADEMY TRUST
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Cash
£4.5M
+7.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£31M
+6.1% vs 2024
Employees
524
-2.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-08-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | — | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | |
| Net profit | £8,133,615 | £607,872 | -92.5% | |
| Cash | £4,211,064 | £4,531,789 | +7.6% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £30,728,807 | £31,017,679 | +0.9% | |
| Net assets | £29,237,807 | £31,017,679 | +6.1% | |
| Equity | £29,237,807 | £31,017,679 | +6.1% | |
| Average employees | 535 | 524 | -2.1% | |
| Wages | £10,917,117 | £13,475,535 | +23.4% | |
| 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. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current ratio | 3.89x | 3.48x |
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
- Forrester Boyd Robson Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The Trust is made up of eleven primary schools, all operating in Barnsley: The combined pupil capacity of the eleven schools is 3,349 and they had a roll of 3,279 at the year end.”
- “During the year one new trustee was appointed.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 10 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARMSTRONG, John Gordon | Director | 2020-07-14 | Jan 1964 | British |
| HARNESS, Anthony | Director | 2024-01-25 | Aug 1959 | British |
| HOLDSWORTH, Anne Marie | Director | 2024-09-24 | Nov 1965 | British |
| MELLOR, Sonia Bethan | Director | 2022-01-19 | Jun 1961 | Welsh |
| VAUGHTON, Gary John | Director | 2022-01-19 | Aug 1981 | British |
| WARD, Ian William | Director | 2015-07-23 | May 1956 | British |
| WILSON, Geraldine | Director | 2015-07-23 | Feb 1964 | British |
Show 10 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GALLOWAY, Rachel | Director | 2022-01-19 | 2023-10-17 |
| GLAZZARD, Jonathan, Professor | Director | 2017-10-25 | 2020-07-14 |
| GLAZZARD, Jonathan, Professor | Director | 2015-07-23 | 2015-08-25 |
| HOWE, Phillip Michael | Director | 2015-07-23 | 2021-05-13 |
| MOORE, Phil | Director | 2020-07-14 | 2021-07-12 |
| NORRIS, Susan | Director | 2015-07-23 | 2017-10-16 |
| PARR, Nicola Joanne | Director | 2015-07-23 | 2022-09-28 |
| PARTLOW, Penny | Director | 2020-07-14 | 2021-10-12 |
| RODWELL, Ian Thomas | Director | 2015-07-23 | 2019-08-28 |
| SCOTT, Karen | Director | 2015-11-11 | 2020-02-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 46 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-12-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-08-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-06-17 | AUD | auditors | Auditors resignation company | |
| 2022-01-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-11-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-07-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- 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.