THE COMPASS SCHOOL
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-28 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£533K
-15.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£863K
+0.6% vs 2024
Employees
44
-4.3% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£5K
-71.4% vs 2024
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 | — | £1,920,920 | £1,816,157 | |
| Operating profit | — | £12,666 | £919 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £17,862 | £5,102 | |
| Net profit | — | £46,759 | £5,066 | |
| Cash | — | £628,094 | £533,056 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £858,199 | £863,265 | |
| Net assets | — | £858,199 | £863,265 | |
| Equity | — | £858,199 | £863,265 | |
| Average employees | 42 | 46 | 44 | |
| Wages | — | £1,019,383 | £1,006,214 | |
| 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
-
Turnover
-5.5%
£1,920,920 £1,816,157
-
Cash
-15.1%
£628,094 £533,056
-
Net assets
+0.6%
£858,199 £863,265
-
Employees
-4.3%
46 44
-
Operating profit
-92.7%
£12,666 £919
-
Profit before tax
-71.4%
£17,862 £5,102
-
Wages
-1.3%
£1,019,383 £1,006,214
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 0.7% | 0.1% | |
| Net margin | — | 2.4% | 0.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 1.5% | 0.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 50.4% | 47.3% | |
| Current ratio | — | 1.18x | 1.26x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Saffery LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the governors have a reasonable expectation that the School has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the governors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “During the session, the School continued its work in promoting The Rights Of The Child as a UNICEF Rights Respecting School. This resulted in The Compass School being awarded Gold status following a re-adjudication visit in May 2025.”
- “The School works in partnership with a local charity, Our Community Kitchen, in the running of an intergenerational project.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 35 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MACDONALD, Elizabeth Helen | Secretary | 2024-12-03 | — | — |
| ANDERSON, Keith Thomas | Director | 2012-03-21 | Jan 1957 | British |
| AXON, Philippa Claire | Director | 2017-11-29 | Sep 1971 | British |
| BAILEY, Simon John | Director | 2023-01-11 | May 1974 | British |
| FLEMING, Linda | Director | 2014-03-02 | May 1952 | British |
| LYONS, Thomas | Director | 2017-09-11 | Aug 1962 | British |
| SHANNON, Penelope Ann | Director | 2022-12-08 | Sep 1980 | British |
| STEWART, David Alexander | Director | 2018-01-20 | Sep 1966 | British |
| WYNN, Arlene Ann | Director | 2016-09-01 | Jan 1970 | British |
Show 35 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIMMO, James | Secretary | 2007-11-28 | 2010-06-02 |
| SIMPSON, Janice Ann | Secretary | 1992-07-15 | 1994-11-30 |
| SMEATON, Caroline Susan | Secretary | 1994-12-01 | 2007-11-28 |
| WILSON, James Logan Noble | Secretary | 2010-06-03 | 2024-12-03 |
| ADAMS, Douglas Stewart | Director | 1999-09-01 | 2008-10-01 |
| ALLEN, Elizabeth Martin Brown | Director | 1992-11-17 | 1994-03-21 |
| ASHWELL, Roy Thomas | Director | 1992-11-21 | 1995-04-10 |
| CAIRNS, John Ballantyne, Very Reverend Doctor | Director | 2003-05-14 | 2015-09-10 |
| CALLANDER, Jacqueline Hulda | Director | 2007-03-06 | 2011-10-05 |
| CLARK, David Paris | Director | 1992-07-15 | 1999-09-01 |
| CLARKE, Geoff James | Director | 2019-11-27 | 2022-01-26 |
| DYER, Anne Catherine, Revd Canon | Director | 2016-09-01 | 2018-02-01 |
| FERNANDO, Kevin Jude, Dr | Director | 2022-01-26 | 2024-01-17 |
| FERNANDO, Kevin Jude, Dr | Director | 2019-11-27 | 2022-01-26 |
| GALBRAITH, Norman Thomas Galloway | Director | 1998-03-03 | 2003-07-03 |
| GERSTENBERG, Francis Eric | Director | 2007-05-31 | 2015-10-10 |
| HAMILTON, Miles Philip Bennett | Director | 2001-12-11 | 2006-11-27 |
| KERR, Hugh Simon | Director | 2014-03-01 | 2022-06-28 |
| MACGREGOR, Ian George Stewart | Director | 1992-07-15 | 1996-08-09 |
| MENZIES, Duncan Adam Young, The Rt Hon Lord Menzies Pc | Director | 1992-10-15 | 1997-12-03 |
| O'RYAN, Liz, Rev | Director | 2023-01-17 | 2025-10-02 |
| PATE, Wendy | Director | 2012-09-26 | 2016-09-01 |
| PATERSON, Helen Jane | Director | 2011-11-30 | 2019-11-27 |
| ROWAN, John Laidlaw | Director | 2009-12-02 | 2017-11-29 |
| SALVESEN, Alastair Eric Hotson | Director | 1994-06-15 | 2008-08-31 |
| SANDERSON, Jane Elizabeth | Director | 2002-10-02 | 2005-10-06 |
| SHARKEY, Scott Jenkinson | Director | 2009-12-02 | 2014-07-03 |
| SIMPSON, David, Dr | Director | 1992-07-15 | 1993-06-08 |
| SMITH, Helen Claire | Director | 2004-08-25 | 2012-07-05 |
| SMITH, Philip John George | Director | 2004-08-25 | 2009-12-02 |
| TEACHER, Rosemary Anne | Director | 1996-06-10 | 2001-07-05 |
| VOGE, Anthony Wreford Bothwell | Director | 1992-11-23 | 2001-05-02 |
| WATSON, John | Director | 2006-11-01 | 2014-03-12 |
| WILL, Jane Anne Denham | Director | 1996-03-12 | 2005-03-30 |
| WORLLEDGE, Peter John Franklin | Director | 2009-12-02 | 2017-12-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 161 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-01-20 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-12-03 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-03 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-08-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-12-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-06-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-02-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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.