DERWEN COLLEGE
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-01 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
-34% vs 2023
Net assets
£6M
+0.8% vs 2023
Employees
422
+11.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2024-12-31
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 | £12,263,533 | £13,300,257 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £830,215 | £44,324 | |
| Cash | £1,600,511 | £1,056,982 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £5,465,298 | £5,531,966 | |
| Net assets | £5,465,298 | £5,509,622 | |
| Equity | £5,465,298 | £5,509,622 | |
| Average employees | 380 | 422 | |
| Wages | £8,404,727 | £9,437,491 |
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 | 6.8% | 0.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 16.2% | 20.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.44x | 1.98x |
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 §1A
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Abridged
- Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)
- Auditor
- WR Partners
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“the trustees expect the Charity to have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing financial statements.”
Group structure
- DERWEN COLLEGE · parent
- Derwen College Consulting Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Our provision for students with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) now successfully includes residential accommodation.”
- “A Student Wellbeing Strategy 2024-26 has been implemented.”
- “Derwen College Consulting Ltd has completed its initial international contract, sharing expertise and working with the Kuwait Society for the Handicapped (KSH) to create and develop the country's first ever specialist further education college, Gharnata Training Centre.”
- “Student numbers exceeded targets in September 2024.”
- “The Student Union Board (renamed the Student Council in autumn 2024) raised questions about the accessibility of some parts of the site.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
13 active · 31 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THOMPSON, Carol Denise Novello | Secretary | 2019-03-12 | — | — |
| BELL, Robert Matthew, Dr | Director | 2026-02-03 | May 1953 | British |
| COURT, Ruth Louise | Director | 2025-03-20 | Apr 1967 | British |
| COWAN, Michael Reilly | Director | 2013-07-25 | Nov 1952 | British |
| COX, Helen Victoria | Director | 2018-10-11 | Aug 1953 | British |
| GROVE, Andrew John | Director | 2023-03-23 | Sep 1967 | British |
| KIMBER, Kathleen | Director | 2013-07-18 | Apr 1944 | British |
| LEAH, Tracy | Director | 2026-02-03 | May 1972 | British |
| LEIGH, Elizabeth Mary | Director | 2021-03-25 | Feb 1964 | British |
| LORD, Stephen Mark | Director | 2021-03-25 | May 1962 | British |
| OWEN, Daniel Jack | Director | 2025-03-20 | Jul 1990 | British |
| PLOWDEN, Abigail Louise | Director | 2024-03-20 | May 1985 | British |
| WARD, James Edward | Director | 2015-03-26 | Feb 1960 | British |
Show 31 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROOM, Lesley Elizabeth | Secretary | 2013-07-18 | 2014-07-21 |
| BEAUMONT, Caroline Susan | Director | 2021-03-25 | 2024-01-31 |
| BUDD, Ian | Director | 2015-01-29 | 2016-12-01 |
| BURNS, Louise Mary | Director | 2022-07-15 | 2025-10-27 |
| CARLILE, Lezley Janet | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2017-02-09 |
| CHILDS, Krista Lucia, Councillor | Director | 2017-10-12 | 2021-01-12 |
| COURT, Barbara Lynn | Director | 2018-05-23 | 2024-10-17 |
| EDWARDS, John Wyn | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2015-03-26 |
| EVISON, David Paul | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2024-11-25 |
| GEORGE, Karen | Director | 2015-01-28 | 2016-01-28 |
| GRIFFITHS, Karen | Director | 2015-10-29 | 2017-07-10 |
| GULL, Irene Patricia | Director | 2013-07-18 | 2018-07-19 |
| HINCHLIFF, Andrew Richard, Cllr | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2018-10-11 |
| JONES, Peter David | Director | 2017-02-09 | 2020-03-12 |
| KENDALL, David John | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2015-12-01 |
| KENYON, Lloyd, Councillor | Director | 2016-12-01 | 2019-05-16 |
| LANGFIELD, Barry | Director | 2024-03-20 | 2025-07-12 |
| LLOYD, David Glyn, Councillor | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2017-04-06 |
| MACEY, Robert | Director | 2015-07-23 | 2018-10-11 |
| MCCOMBE, Katie | Director | 2014-05-22 | 2015-07-23 |
| MILNER, David Paul, Councillor | Director | 2017-06-28 | 2022-07-15 |
| MORTEN, John | Director | 2016-01-28 | 2019-05-16 |
| MOSS, Erica Wyn | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2014-10-09 |
| NORTH, David Roland, The Reverend Prebendary | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2015-07-23 |
| OWEN, June | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2014-05-22 |
| OWENS, Helen Christine | Director | 2016-07-21 | 2022-08-30 |
| PRESTON, David John | Director | 2023-03-23 | 2024-01-30 |
| RICHARDS, Gillian Patricia | Director | 2018-07-18 | 2020-04-25 |
| SHEPPARD, Jacqueline Mary | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2015-11-30 |
| SMITH, Helen | Director | 2018-12-03 | 2022-07-15 |
| WOODWARD, Mark Haddon | Director | 2013-07-25 | 2017-10-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 119 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-28 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-24 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- 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
+8.5%
£12,263,533 £13,300,257
-
Cash
-34%
£1,600,511 £1,056,982
-
Net assets
+0.8%
£5,465,298 £5,509,622
-
Employees
+11.1%
380 422
-
Wages
+12.3%
£8,404,727 £9,437,491
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