OWLCOTES MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-18 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-02-04
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
-1.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£34M
+27.2% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
485
+96.4% highest in 3 filed years
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
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £12,589,000 | £19,609,000 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | |
| Net profit | — | £3,623,000 | £7,208,000 | |
| Cash | £3,266,000 | £3,429,000 | £3,384,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £22,915,000 | £26,502,000 | £33,704,000 | |
| Net assets | £22,909,000 | £26,496,000 | £33,704,000 | |
| Equity | £22,909,000 | £26,496,000 | £33,704,000 | |
| Average employees | 245 | 247 | 485 | |
| Wages | — | £8,219,000 | £11,535,000 | |
| 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
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Turnover
+55.8%
£12,589,000 £19,609,000
-
Cash
-1.3%
£3,429,000 £3,384,000
-
Net assets
+27.2%
£26,496,000 £33,704,000
highest in 3 filed years
-
Employees
+96.4%
247 485
highest in 3 filed years
-
Wages
+40.3%
£8,219,000 £11,535,000
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 | — | 28.8% | 36.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 2.2% | 4.5% | |
| Current ratio | — | 7.20x | 2.65x |
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
- Armstrong Watson 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.”
Significant events
- “We were delighted to welcome Morley Victoria Primary School in September 2024, Fountain Primary School to the Owlcotes Trust in April 2025 and Hovingham Primary School in September 2025.”
- “In August 2024, Manor Wood Children's Centre was judged as 'Outstanding again in their inspection and in April 2025, Manor Wood Primary School retained the Outstanding grade.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARKER, Elise | Director | 2023-12-12 | Sep 1988 | British |
| BUDGE, Hayley Samantha Mitchell | Director | 2025-12-10 | Nov 1984 | British |
| GIBSON, Robert Guy | Director | 2018-02-05 | Feb 1957 | British |
| GREENE, Stephen Paul | Director | 2020-11-01 | Oct 1983 | British |
| NORFOLK, Judith Elizabeth | Director | 2018-02-05 | Jun 1953 | British |
| PALMER, Emma | Director | 2022-06-23 | May 1979 | British |
| REED, Anne Elizabeth | Director | 2022-10-13 | May 1970 | British |
| URWIN, Michael | Director | 2023-10-12 | Feb 1977 | British |
| WEST, Lesley Anne | Director | 2018-02-05 | Jul 1963 | British |
| WOODS, John | Director | 2018-02-05 | Oct 1978 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMSTRONG, Katie Scarlett | Director | 2020-11-01 | 2021-02-11 |
| CRIPPS, John | Director | 2019-10-10 | 2020-10-14 |
| GRANT, Gordon | Director | 2018-02-05 | 2022-03-10 |
| HALL, Shayne William | Director | 2018-02-05 | 2023-07-10 |
| HARRISON, Carl Ward | Director | 2022-06-23 | 2023-07-10 |
| SHERBURN, Mark Richard | Director | 2020-11-01 | 2020-11-18 |
| SMITH, Macaley Catherine | Director | 2018-02-05 | 2018-11-20 |
| WILKINSON, Kathryn Hilary | Director | 2020-10-15 | 2022-03-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Dominic Schack | Individual | Significant influence | 2024-12-11 | Active |
| Mr Gordon Grant | Individual | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2023-07-10 | Active |
| Mrs Judith Elizabeth Norfolk | Individual | Significant influence | 2020-12-09 | Active |
| Claire Elizabeth Waspe | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2018-02-05 | Ceased 2025-03-01 |
| Margaret Isobel Hainsworth | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2018-02-05 | Ceased 2020-12-15 |
| Mrs Joanne Mary Robinson | Individual | Voting 25–50% | 2018-02-05 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 42 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-02-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type total exemption full | |
| 2025-05-20 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-21 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-02-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-21 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-03-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-06-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-03-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- 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.