FRANK FIELD EDUCATION TRUST

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  1 PSC ceased in last 24 months

  Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.

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

• Turnover

  +8.1%

  £16,200,000 → £17,514,000

• Cash

  +61.6%

  £1,739,000 → £2,810,000

  highest in 3 filed years

• Net assets

  +3.9%

  £19,609,000 → £20,378,000

• Employees

  -4.1%

  245 → 235

  lowest in 3 filed years

• Wages

  +3.4%

  £8,795,000 → £9,092,000

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

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.

1. FRANK FIELD EDUCATION TRUST 2018-04-12 → present
2. CATHEDRAL ACADEMIES TRUST 2015-12-07 → 2018-04-12

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 cxistence for the foreseeable futurc. For this reason, the board of trustees continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the accounts.”

Group structure

1. FRANK FIELD EDUCATION TRUST · parent
   1. The Ellesmere Port C of E College · Education
   2. Handforth Grange Primary School · Education
   3. Birches Head Academy · Education

Significant events

• “The Trust has established an Early Life Programme in Ellesmere Port in September 2021, working with local primary schools. This innovative programme goes from strength to strength and was most recently short-listed for the TES Community Engagement Award.”
• “The first school to join was an 11-18 secondary school, The Ellesmere Port C of E College (EPC) in December 2018, which was re-brokered from a previous trust and received several Inadequate Ofsted judgements.”
• “The second school to join the Trust was our primary school, Handforth Grange, who achieved its second Outstanding judgement in January 2024. Handforth has also been awarded an Educate Award for Inclusive Provision in a Primary School in November 2025.”
• “The third school to join the Trust was an 11-16 secondary school in Stoke, Birches Head Academy, who joined the Trust in December 2020.”
• “An agreed deficit of £480,000 was inherited by the trust as a condition of The Ellesmere Port Church of England College joining the Trust, as part of the re-brokering agreement. The trust has repaid this deficit in full.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.