THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTRE
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-10 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-26
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£118K
-54.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£6M
+0.1% vs 2023
Employees
97
+6.6% vs 2023
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-12-31
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTRE 1980-12-31 → present
- E.L.C. (HOVE) LIMITED 1980-07-21 → 1980-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,584,918 | £6,761,587 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £182,687 | £8,989 | |
| Cash | £258,672 | £117,953 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,981,160 | £6,893,755 | |
| Net assets | £6,427,991 | £6,436,980 | |
| Equity | £6,427,991 | £6,436,980 | |
| Average employees | 91 | 97 | |
| Wages | £2,111,166 | £2,288,291 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 2.8% | 0.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 25.1% | 23.6% | |
| Current ratio | 0.44x | 0.41x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Friend-James Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After considering the company's forecast for the next 12 months, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate cash and resources to meet all requirements to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of preparation.”
Group structure
- THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTRE · parent
- English In Chester Limited 100%
- Stanley Place (Holdings) Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 25 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOPKINS, Philip John Christopher | Secretary | 2010-05-19 | — | — |
| DAY, Richard John | Director | 2022-11-30 | May 1946 | British |
| KIDD, Robert Howard | Director | 2020-02-25 | Jul 1949 | British |
| PARAMOR, Nigel Paul | Director | 2025-03-20 | Aug 1960 | British |
| STEWART, Richard Alexander | Director | 1995-07-27 | May 1946 | British |
| TIERNAN, John Edward | Director | 2023-08-22 | Nov 1959 | British |
| WELLS, Katherine Joanna | Director | 2009-11-12 | Feb 1971 | British |
Show 25 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARRISON, Charles Nicholas | Secretary | — | 2010-05-19 |
| ALLEN, Mark | Director | 2010-11-30 | 2014-06-24 |
| BARNARD, Geoffrey Leonard | Director | — | 1992-05-19 |
| BLACKSHAW, William Simon | Director | 1991-03-13 | 2005-05-04 |
| DUNLOP, Ian Harrison | Director | — | 1996-11-05 |
| EWART, Stanley Ernest | Director | 2010-11-30 | 2011-05-18 |
| HALL-SMITH, Vanessa Frances | Director | 2015-11-24 | 2019-07-30 |
| HAMMARBERG, Peter | Director | — | 1995-03-03 |
| HOGLUND, Anders | Director | — | 1992-05-19 |
| LEWIS, John Walford | Director | — | 2001-05-23 |
| MARKHAM, Ann Faulkner | Director | 1993-08-23 | 1996-12-01 |
| MURPHY-ODWYER, Lynette Mary | Director | 1996-02-20 | 2011-11-20 |
| NAKHLE, Edward | Director | 1997-07-31 | 2008-05-14 |
| ORPEN, Marianne | Director | — | 1996-02-20 |
| ORPEN, Peter Christopher | Director | 2010-03-03 | 2020-04-04 |
| PERRY, Roger Christopher Vernon Dyson | Director | 2010-11-30 | 2017-06-30 |
| PHILIPS, Michael Adrian | Director | 2010-11-30 | 2012-06-27 |
| QUIBELL, Thomas Ernest Duncan | Director | 2004-05-13 | 2019-07-30 |
| RIVETT-DRAKE, Jean Elizabeth Rivett, Dame | Director | — | 1993-11-22 |
| RUDD, John Robert | Director | 2005-02-24 | 2025-08-20 |
| STILES, Pamela Margaret Melanie | Director | 1996-02-20 | 2007-05-16 |
| THOMAS, Kenneth Eastwood | Director | 1998-05-06 | 2002-11-03 |
| WEST, Michael Cunningham | Director | 2006-08-10 | 2025-08-20 |
| WESTIN, Gunnar Forwald | Director | — | 1994-11-28 |
| WHITE, Graham Marshall | Director | 2014-08-26 | 2021-11-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 148 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-06-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-06-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-11-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-07-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 2
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.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+2.7%
£6,584,918 £6,761,587
-
Cash
-54.4%
£258,672 £117,953
-
Net assets
+0.1%
£6,427,991 £6,436,980
-
Employees
+6.6%
91 97
-
Wages
+8.4%
£2,111,166 £2,288,291
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