The Ascent Academies' Trust

Company 08098007 · Active · incorporated 08/06/2012 · Sunderland SR5 3PE · PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)

Nature of business: 85100 - Pre-primary education | 85200 - Primary education | 85310 - General secondary education | 85410 - Post-secondary non-tertiary education

Latest accounts held to 2025-08-31.

Who controls it

• No individual or entity with signficant control (statement)
  · from 2018-05-24
• Miss Valerie Milnes (person, born 03/1949, British, resident England)
  voting rights 25 to 50 percent · from 2016-12-14, ceased 2017-12-11
• Dame Dela Smith (person, born 10/1952, British, resident England)
  voting rights 25 to 50 percent · from 2016-12-14, ceased 2017-12-11
• Mr Colin Short (person, born 01/1940, British, resident England)
  voting rights 25 to 50 percent · from 2016-12-14, ceased 2017-12-11

Where the chain ends

This company is not held through another UK company on the register, so the persons above are the end of the ownership question.

Who runs it

• MILNES, Valerie (director, born 03/1949, British) · from 2012-06-08 to 2023-05-18
• ELLIOTT, Dorothy (director, born 01/1941, British) · from 2012-06-08 to 2013-07-19
• WARD HADAWAY COMPANY SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED (corporate secretary) · from 2012-06-08 to 2014-10-17
• BARKER, Carolyn Margaret (director, born 08/1967, British) · from 2012-07-19 to 2015-10-01
• MULHERN, Paula (director, born 07/1975, British) · from 2012-07-19 to 2013-09-24
• REED, Ian (director, born 05/1956, English) · from 2012-07-19 to 2014-04-03
• CARSON, Melanie Jayne (director, born 08/1967, British) · from 2012-07-19 to 2015-10-01
• SHILLINGLAW, Graeme Alexander (director, born 09/1960, British) · from 2012-07-19 to 2015-10-01
• TORGERSEN, June Haldane (director, born 06/1951, British) · from 2013-01-17 to 2016-07-30
• SHORT, Colin (director, born 01/1940, British) · from 2013-01-17 to 2016-07-30
• STORES, Amanda (director, born 06/1982, British) · from 2013-03-06 to 2015-11-12
• LITTLE, Michael (director, born 09/1979, British) · from 2013-07-10 to 2015-10-01
• RAMSAY, Nicola (director, born 04/1975, British) · from 2014-02-12 to 2014-09-21
• GRAHAM, Helen Anne (director, born 07/1951, British) · from 2014-10-15 to 2014-04-02
• PRIMA SECRETARY LIMITED (corporate secretary) · from 2014-10-17 to 2019-11-01
• QUINN, Michelle (director, born 09/1966, British) · from 2015-02-23 to 2018-10-11
• WRIGHT, Paul Richard (director, born 06/1976, British) · from 2015-10-01 to 2019-03-28
• MAKIN, Paul Anthony (director, born 10/1956, British) · from 2015-10-01 to 2017-09-01
• BARKLEY, Kate (director, born 01/1979, British) · from 2015-10-01 to 2016-10-21
• PATEL, Rohit (director, born 04/1977, British) · from 2015-10-01 to 2019-12-05
• HURN, Nicholas Simon (director, born 02/1961, British) · from 2015-10-01 to 2019-12-05
• CLELLAND, Lesley (director, born 10/1957, British) · from 2015-10-01 to 2017-11-01
• BLAIR, Susan (director, born 03/1971, British) · from 2015-11-04 to 2018-03-15
• ARMSTRONG, Kathryn (director, born 12/1959, British) · from 2016-08-17 to 2018-06-06
• MORRIS, Maureen Colquhoun (director, born 09/1953, British) · from 2016-10-19 to 2016-07-30
• DUNCAN, Jennifer Anne (director, born 05/1975, British) · from 2016-10-19 to 2017-11-01
• MORGAN, Carolyn (director, born 08/1967, British) · from 2017-09-01 to 2024-12-31
• WHORLTON, Rachael Anne (director, born 10/1980, British) · from 2017-12-20 to 2021-10-19
• BARKER, David Edward (director, born 08/1965, British) · from 2018-04-17 to 2020-12-16
• STEELE, Scott Michael (director, born 05/1989, British) · from 2018-07-31 to 2020-01-21
• JOBES, Graeme Andrew (director, born 12/1973, British) · from 2019-01-15 to 2024-07-03
• SMITH, Dela, Dame (director, born 10/1952, British) · from 2019-12-10 to 2017-07-12
• TODD, Debbie (secretary) · from 2020-01-06 to 2020-12-31
• KIRKBRIDE, Gregory (director, born 09/1966, British) · from 2020-11-04 to 2026-02-08
• REDFORD, Ian (director, born 07/1976, British) · from 2020-12-18 to 2021-09-07
• RAINE, Karen (secretary) · from 2021-01-01 to 2021-03-08
• LAWTON, Kelly Ann (director, born 01/1977, British) · from 2021-02-22 to 2022-11-02
• DUFFIELD, Kathryn Jayne (secretary) · from 2021-03-08 to 2022-06-12
• BOWMAN, Gillian (director, born 08/1969, British) · from 2023-06-12 to 2025-11-04
• STEPHENSON, Andrew John (director, born 07/1965, British) · from 2023-10-09 to 2024-12-17
• WATSON, Patricia Lynn (director, born 02/1957, British) · from 2017-01-23, current
• HUDSPETH, Nadine Renae (director, born 02/1973, British) · from 2017-01-25, current
• GREEN, Caroline Maria (director, born 07/1965, British) · from 2020-01-20, current
• STEVENS, Katie (director, born 12/1972, British) · from 2020-07-09, current
• AITCHISON, Pauline Ann (director, born 06/1969, British) · from 2021-01-06, current
• MARSHALL, Alison (secretary) · from 2022-06-13, current
• MARTIN-DENHAM, Sarah Louise (director, born 07/1973, British) · from 2023-02-27, current
• SMITH, Heidi Louise (director, born 12/1989, British) · from 2023-07-14, current
• MEE, Pamela (director, born 01/1976, British) · from 2023-09-15, current
• FIELD, Tracey Anne (director, born 08/1969, British) · from 2024-01-25, current
• MCCOURT, Bryan (director, born 04/1971, British) · from 2024-04-26, current
• HARGREAVES, Rachel Louise (director, born 12/1977, British) · from 2025-01-01, current

Property on the register

6 titles on the register, around £652,945 by latest value.

District level only. Information produced by HM Land Registry © Crown copyright; street addresses are withheld under the licence.

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Nearest by our vector reading of what the company is and does. A resemblance, not a relationship.

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• The Co-operative Academies Trust (07747126)
• The Olympus Academy Trust (07844791)

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