EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED)

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

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Crowe U.K. LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Board is comfortable that the Charity has sufficient resources to fund its ongoing operations and to service the long-term debt, with current forecasts indicating the Charity can meet its commitments for the foreseeable future. These forecasts are reviewed by the Finance and Property Committee at least termly. Accordingly, the Board is satisfied that there are no material uncertainties surrounding the Charity's ability to continue as a going concern and the accounts have been prepared on that basis.”

Group structure

1. EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED) · parent
   1. Eastbourne College Enterprises Limited 100% · UK · bussing services, sports and letting facilities and school shop facilities

Significant events

• “Following the Labour Party election victory, the imposition of tax on independent school fees from January 2025, and the removal of mandatory business rates relief from April 2025, we now face an environment that will present financial challenges as adjustments are made.”
• “The Blue Sky Bursaries Appeal, launched with a showing of the Caffe Sospeso film at the St Andrew's and College Speech Days, aims to fund 40 places a year.”
• “The main developments in the year included the refurbishment of the Common Room within School House, a girls' boarding house; the installation of gates at either end of Old Wish Road, improving the safeguarding of pupils and staff; and the demolition of the Old Dining Hall site, a detractor site and redundant property which had fallen into disrepair over the last few years.”
• “Both schools were shortlisted in the Independent School of the Year Awards - the College in the School Trips of the Year category; and the School in the category for Independent School of the Year for Performing Arts.”
• “The Charity has been awarded the Wellbeing Award for Schools by Optimus Education in partnership with the National Children's Bureau.”
• “This year marks the start of the Charity's new 5-year Strategic Plan. The 2023-2028 strategic plan builds on the success of the last.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +6.2%

  £27,705,000 → £29,418,000

• Cash

  +174%

  £5,334,000 → £14,615,000

• Net assets

  +2.9%

  £48,456,000 → £49,873,000

• Employees

  +1.3%

  445 → 451

• Operating profit

  +102.9%

  £238,000 → £483,000

• Wages

  +5.5%

  £11,633,000 → £12,267,000

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