SOKE EDUCATION TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-23 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-09
Watchouts
Cash
£4M
+7.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£13M
-1.2% vs 2024
Employees
299
-2.9% 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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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
5-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
5-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2020-08-31 | 2021-08-31 | 2022-08-31 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | — | £12,765,844 | £12,923,601 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Net profit | — | — | — | £3,050,984 | -£165,031 | |
| Cash | — | — | — | £3,334,095 | £3,594,310 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | — | £12,939,944 | £12,790,913 | |
| Net assets | — | — | — | £12,939,944 | £12,790,913 | |
| Equity | — | — | — | £12,315,944 | £12,790,913 | |
| Average employees | 214 | 215 | 222 | 308 | 299 | |
| Wages | — | — | — | £7,628,708 | £7,678,568 | |
| 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
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Turnover
+1.2%
£12,765,844 £12,923,601
-
Cash
+7.8%
£3,334,095 £3,594,310
-
Net assets
-1.2%
£12,939,944 £12,790,913
-
Employees
-2.9%
308 299
-
Wages
+0.7%
£7,628,708 £7,678,568
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 | 2020-08-31 | 2021-08-31 | 2022-08-31 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | — | — | — | 23.9% | -1.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | — | 9.6% | 12.0% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | 2.84x | 2.42x |
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
- Azets Audit Services
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the schools within the Trust have 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
- “Until 1st September 2023 the Trust operated five primary Academies across Peterborough with Alderman Jacobs School now part of the organisation. Across six schools, Soke Education Trust has a combined pupil capacity of 1899.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENN, Hannah | Director | 2025-05-07 | May 1990 | British |
| COMBES, Joel | Director | 2023-09-20 | Jun 1971 | British |
| CRANE, Mark | Director | 2024-07-10 | Jan 1987 | British |
| GERRARD, Stephen Mark | Director | 2023-11-01 | Feb 1966 | British |
| HOLLAND, Laura Kate Rhiannon | Director | 2023-09-20 | Jan 1977 | British |
| KIRK, Peter Otsaye | Director | 2024-07-10 | Nov 1991 | British |
| STAFFORD, John | Director | 2025-09-01 | Dec 1987 | British |
| TASKER, Lewis Alan | Director | 2024-07-10 | Mar 1982 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATKINSON, John Russell | Director | 2021-06-07 | 2022-12-31 |
| CARLISLE, Catherine | Director | 2025-05-07 | 2026-02-05 |
| DANIELS, Julie | Director | 2020-11-26 | 2022-08-31 |
| HALL, Neville Edward | Director | 2018-07-26 | 2019-04-02 |
| HINCH, John | Director | 2023-03-01 | 2024-10-02 |
| ISLAM, Abdul | Director | 2018-01-11 | 2020-07-10 |
| MASSEY, Malcolm | Director | 2017-09-11 | 2019-07-17 |
| MCINTOSH, Graham | Director | 2017-09-11 | 2022-08-31 |
| MILBURN, Simon James | Director | 2017-09-11 | 2018-03-14 |
| OVER, David Edward | Director | 2019-10-08 | 2024-05-01 |
| PALMER, Maxine | Director | 2017-09-11 | 2021-06-03 |
| PENNELL, Christopher George | Director | 2017-09-11 | 2018-02-16 |
| ROACH, John Glenn | Director | 2018-08-31 | 2022-12-31 |
| SPOONER, Claire Louise | Director | 2017-09-11 | 2024-07-10 |
| WALKER-SMITH, Julia | Director | 2020-01-13 | 2024-07-10 |
| WEBB, Barry George William | Director | 2020-07-10 | 2024-07-10 |
| WILDING, Benedict Christopher Formby | Director | 2018-01-11 | 2022-08-31 |
| WOODFORD, Rachel | Director | 2017-09-11 | 2020-11-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Eamon Dorling | Individual | Significant influence | 2023-11-22 | Ceased 2023-11-22 |
| Mr Kevin Tighe | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2018-10-29 | Ceased 2018-10-29 |
| Mr Neil Russell Mcculloch | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2018-09-01 | Ceased 2025-01-31 |
| Ms Christine Ann Moss | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2018-09-01 | Ceased 2022-10-02 |
| Mrs Claire Spooner | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2018-09-01 | Ceased 2022-08-31 |
| Mr Robert Laurie | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2018-09-01 | Ceased 2018-09-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 86 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-16 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-12-16 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-12-16 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-12-16 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-09-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-02-05 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-09-09 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-19 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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.