AMBITION COMMUNITY TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-04-30
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£3M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£52M
Equity attributable
Employees
422
Average over period
Profit before tax
£52M
Period ending 2025-08-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-04-30.
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £15,538,645 | |
| Operating profit | — | £52,246,563 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £52,246,563 | |
| Net profit | — | £52,246,563 | |
| Cash | — | £3,208,371 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £51,958,563 | |
| Net assets | — | £51,958,563 | |
| Equity | — | £51,958,563 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 422 | |
| Wages | — | £7,846,523 | |
| 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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | — | 100.6% | |
| Current ratio | — | 2.24x |
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. Margin ratios are hidden where reported turnover is too small relative to profit to yield a meaningful figure — typical of holding companies whose income is mostly subsidiary dividends rather than trading revenue. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- AMBITION COMMUNITY TRUST 2024-05-07 → present
- AMBITION COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED 2024-04-17 → 2024-05-07
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Murray Smith LLP
- 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, it continues to adopt the going-concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Ambition Community Trust (ACT) brings together schools across Tameside and Manchester with a shared belief in Relational Inclusion, the conviction that every child belongs, every story matters, and every adult plays a part in creating safe, trusting, and nurturing school communities.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARKER, Helen | Director | 2025-01-01 | Oct 1977 | British |
| BENEDICT, Anthony | Director | 2024-04-17 | May 1974 | British |
| BROCK, Stephen | Director | 2024-04-17 | Jun 1969 | Canadian |
| HORRIDGE, Elaine | Director | 2024-04-17 | Jul 1953 | British |
| KOSTICK, Bernice | Director | 2024-04-17 | Mar 1962 | British |
| NIXON, Gareth | Director | 2026-02-03 | Aug 1968 | British |
| ROGERS, Jamie Martin | Director | 2026-02-03 | Dec 1988 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAIG, Nadia Mirza | Director | 2024-04-17 | 2025-09-01 |
| CARROLL, Stephen | Director | 2025-01-01 | 2026-01-20 |
| JAMES, Deborah, Professor | Director | 2024-04-17 | 2024-07-15 |
| OWEN, Louise Anne, Dr | Director | 2024-04-17 | 2025-05-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 19 of 19 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-12-03 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-12-03 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-05-07 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type dormant | |
| 2025-10-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-17 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-09-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-30 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2025-09-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-20 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2025-05-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-03 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-12-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-07-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-07 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-04-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-17 | NEWINC | incorporation | Incorporation company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 13
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 3
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.