AUTHENTIC EDUCATION GROUP LIMITED
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Cash
£9M
+89.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£96M
+2.1% vs 2024
Employees
1,007
-2% 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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4 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 · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £57,199,888 | £59,974,637 | +4.9% | |
| Operating profit | — | -£900,000 | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | — | |
| Net profit | -£1,421,658 | -£2,054,566 | -44.5% | |
| Cash | £4,757,495 | £8,997,797 | +89.1% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £98,887,872 | £96,688,285 | -2.2% | |
| Net assets | £94,167,666 | £96,158,100 | +2.1% | |
| Equity | £94,167,666 | £96,158,100 | +2.1% | |
| Average employees | 1,028 | 1,007 | -2% | |
| Wages | £31,244,501 | £32,644,860 | +4.5% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £0 | £0 | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | -1.5% | |
| Net margin | -2.5% | -3.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | -0.9% | |
| Current ratio | 3.16x | 2.33x | |
| Interest cover | — | -0.46x |
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.
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- AUTHENTIC EDUCATION GROUP LIMITED 2024-06-24 → present
- AMBITIONS ACADEMIES TRUST 2014-07-15 → 2024-06-24
- TREGONWELL MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST 2012-09-27 → 2014-07-15
- TREGONWELL ACADEMY 2012-03-06 → 2012-09-27
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Hopper Williams & Bell 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. For this reason it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Changes in the senior management team resulted in the decision to contract with United Learning to provide additional capacity into the school improvement team whilst allowing for future strategic decisions to be fully informed.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 24 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUDLEY, Joanna Louise | Director | 2024-10-01 | Jul 1984 | British |
| BEANE, Alison Linda | Director | 2022-04-25 | Jul 1952 | British |
| BERNARDI, Chiku Sinha | Director | 2024-05-01 | Nov 1973 | British |
| BISHOP, James | Director | 2025-01-09 | Nov 1968 | British |
| CAMPBELL, Allan | Director | 2025-01-09 | Oct 1955 | Australian |
| MASCALL, Sarah Jane | Director | 2024-05-29 | Jun 1955 | British |
| RICE, Helen | Director | 2023-11-16 | Mar 1965 | British |
| SPEARING, David Nicholas | Director | 2024-05-31 | May 1954 | British |
Show 24 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOX, Carol Anne | Secretary | 2021-04-01 | 2024-05-31 |
| HAWKINS, Sherri Lee | Secretary | 2012-03-06 | 2021-03-31 |
| MILLS, Verna Anne | Secretary | 2024-06-03 | 2026-01-19 |
| BADGER, Jonathan | Director | 2015-03-26 | 2019-03-26 |
| BATES, Stephen Charles | Director | 2021-11-04 | 2022-08-31 |
| BRAMFORD, Marilyn | Director | 2012-03-06 | 2021-12-31 |
| CAESAR-SCAMMELL, Rosaline Deborah | Director | 2018-12-06 | 2022-09-24 |
| CATLING, Bernadette Mary | Director | 2013-09-01 | 2025-12-31 |
| GROOM, David | Director | 2012-03-06 | 2012-09-11 |
| HARRIS, Ann Christine | Director | 2015-03-26 | 2016-03-17 |
| HOOPER, Brian | Director | 2012-03-06 | 2016-06-01 |
| LUFFMAN, Martin | Director | 2021-11-04 | 2023-12-31 |
| MARCHIORI-WHITE, Pat | Director | 2012-03-06 | 2021-12-31 |
| MAW, Kevin | Director | 2023-10-17 | 2025-09-08 |
| MINNS, Phillip Simon | Director | 2016-06-01 | 2016-12-08 |
| PARKER, Louise Caroline | Director | 2016-09-15 | 2022-09-30 |
| ROSCOE, Carole Amy | Director | 2012-09-11 | 2014-04-03 |
| SARD, Caroline Susan | Director | 2012-09-11 | 2024-07-31 |
| SEAL, John Vincent | Director | 2022-04-08 | 2023-08-31 |
| SMITH, Anthony | Director | 2022-01-04 | 2025-01-09 |
| SMITH, Nigel Robert | Director | 2012-09-11 | 2017-03-30 |
| SMITH, Richard | Director | 2012-03-06 | 2025-08-31 |
| TAYLOR, Edward James | Director | 2017-12-06 | 2020-12-31 |
| WATSON, Roy Timothy Paul | Director | 2022-04-08 | 2023-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Alan Richard Connell | Individual | Voting 25–50% (as firm) | 2018-05-01 | Ceased 2018-12-20 |
| Mrs Lesley Ann Spain | Individual | Voting 25–50% (as firm) | 2018-05-01 | Ceased 2018-12-20 |
| Mr Nigel Robert Smith | Individual | Voting 25–50% (as firm) | 2018-05-01 | Ceased 2018-12-20 |
| Mr Richard Smith | Individual | Appoints directors (as trust), Significant influence (as trust) | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-05-01 |
| Mrs Patricia Marchiori | Individual | Appoints directors (as trust), Significant influence (as trust) | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-05-01 |
| Mrs Marilyn Bramford | Individual | Appoints directors (as trust), Significant influence (as trust) | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-05-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 107 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-06-24 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-19 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-06-24 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-06-07 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-06-07 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 4
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.