UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC LIMITED

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Bevan Buckland Audit Ltd

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Based on the cash-flow forecasts and the reserves held at year-end, trustees are satisfied that the charity has adequate liquidity to meet its obligations as they fall due and that no material uncertainties related to going concern have been identified.”

Group structure

1. UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC LIMITED · parent
   1. Atlantic College Enterprises Limited 1% · England · carry out the trading activities on behalf of the College

Significant events

• “2024/2025 has presented significant challenges for UWC Atlantic, which is reflected in the operating loss of £0.2m. Firstly, with the implementation of the UK governments' legislation on adding VAT to independent school fees. This was introduced at short notice in January 2025, halfway through a school year. All fee payers were required to pay 20% more than their fees with immediate effect.”
• “The College underwrote all those who could not afford to pay, value of £286k.”
• “Further legislative changes came with the removal of charitable business rate relief for independent schools in Wales from 1st April 2025.”
• “Further to that on 6th April 2025 significant increases were made to employers National Insurance Contributions.”
• “The College also increased its bursary funding to support an additional number of student places from its own funds due to a shortfall in scholarships, and there was an increase in student withdrawals placing further pressure on its cashflow.”
• “The combination of these negative financial impacts has resulted in a loss on unrestricted reserves of £0.2m (2024 £345k) and utilisations of existing cash flows £1.17m (2024 £445k).”
• “A voluntary redundancy process was carried out during the year, which has resulted in reduced salary expenditure. This was conducted towards the end of 2024/2025.”
• “Changes to the range of pension provisions were made during the year which reduced contributions for new staff and some existing staff.”
• “In September 2023, the college launched the Systems Transformation Pathway with a pioneering cohort of 24 students.”
• “Financial Achievements and Stability: Fundraising efforts yielded £4.7 million in donations (2023/2024: £4.4m)”

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

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

3

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +2.7%

  £14,073,000 → £14,457,000

• Cash

  -29.5%

  £3,992,000 → £2,816,000

• Net assets

  +2.2%

  £30,524,000 → £31,194,000

• Employees

  +4.7%

  191 → 200

• Profit before tax

  -48.7%

  £1,395,000 → £716,000

• Wages

  +8.4%

  £6,648,000 → £7,206,000

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