01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- ACORN EDUCATION TRUST
- Company number
- 07654902
- Company type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 August 2025Next accounts due
31 May 2027Last statement made up to
1 June 2026Next statement due
15 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Mean bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Women receiving bonus
- 1.3%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 71.5%
- Women in lower quartile
- 90.7%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99936.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99933.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99931.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9990.0% median hourly gap
- Not Provided10.6% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99910.6% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99925.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49940.9% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 September 2025 – 28 February 2026
- Filed
- 6 March 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 15 days
- Longest standard term
- 30 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
30days
- Dispute resolution process
n/a
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 17.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay42.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
Acorn Education Trust
LEI 894500SLM571TT3VXT31 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- 8888
- Next renewal
- 14 January 2020
- Headquarters address
- Acorn Education Trust, Kingdown School, Woodcock Road, Warminster, BA12 9DR, GB
LEI data provides a global legal-entity identity, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links these records only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number.
UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
ACORN EDUCATION TRUST
Multi-academy trust · Open · BA12 9DR
Identity methods differ by source. DfE links use source-supplied company numbers. Ofsted and Scottish care links are unique exact name-and-postcode candidates. HSE links require one unique exact Companies House organisation name. Verify candidate associations independently.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Acorn Education Trust
Registration Z3192352
- Registered from
- 14 June 2012
- Current end date
- 13 June 2027
- Trading names
- Bulford St Leonards Primary School, Neveravon All Saints, St Michaels Primary, Willowbrook Primary School, Chapmanslade Primary School, Kingdown School, Dilton Marsh Primary School, The Avenue Primary School and Children’s Centre, Newclose Primary School, St Johns Primary School, Great Wishford Primary School, The Clarendon Academy, Rowde Church of England Primary Academy, Wansdyke School,, Heytesbury Primary School, West Ashton Primary School, Keevil Primary School, Avon Valley Academy, Durrington All Saints School, Dinton Primary School, Pewsey Vale School
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Mr Andrew James ArmstrongSee 22 companies with this PSC name →
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 1 September 2025
Mr Thomas MorganSee 27 companies with this PSC name →
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 1 September 2025
Mrs Gillian Claire Gosling
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 1 September 2025
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 16 July 2025
- Ceased
- 31 August 2025
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 22 May 2024
- Ceased
- 16 July 2025
Mr Andrew James ArmstrongSee 22 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights (as a trust)
- Can appoint or remove directors (as a trust)
- Has significant influence or control (as a trust)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 20 July 2022
- Ceased
- 29 February 2024
Mr David George MiddletonSee 5 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights (as a trust)
- Can appoint or remove directors (as a trust)
- Has significant influence or control (as a trust)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 20 July 2022
- Ceased
- 29 February 2024
Mr Thomas MorganSee 27 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights (as a trust)
- Can appoint or remove directors (as a trust)
- Has significant influence or control (as a trust)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 20 July 2022
- Ceased
- 29 February 2024
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 1 June 2017
- Ceased
- 19 July 2022
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Primary education
General secondary education
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: KINGDOWN SCHOOL
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Exact source-supplied company-number links.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.