LEARNING FOR LIFE EDUCATION TRUST
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Next accounts due
2026-05-31 (this month)
Last filed for 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-18 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-04
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
+10.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£10M
-3.5% vs 2023
Employees
165
-1.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£580K
+28.7% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- LEARNING FOR LIFE EDUCATION TRUST 2018-08-08 → present
- THE IRTHLINGBOROUGH AND FINEDON LEARNING TRUST 2015-03-04 → 2018-08-08
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £5,924,170 | £6,541,586 | |
| Operating profit | -£780,418 | -£581,995 | |
| Profit before tax | -£812,792 | -£579,893 | |
| Net profit | -£812,792 | -£579,893 | |
| Cash | £929,437 | £1,028,314 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,758,864 | £10,151,987 | |
| Net assets | £10,270,009 | £9,909,116 | |
| Equity | £10,270,009 | £9,909,116 | |
| Average employees | 168 | 165 | |
| Wages | £3,495,837 | £3,738,813 |
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 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -13.2% | -8.9% | |
| Net margin | -13.7% | -8.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | -7.3% | -5.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 7.2% | 5.9% | |
| Current ratio | 3.46x | 3.31x | |
| Interest cover | -18.58x | -25.30x |
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
- Ellacotts Audit Services Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the board of trustees, including all committees, has a reasonable expectation that the academy trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 19 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUMING, Janet Lisa | Director | 2015-04-21 | Nov 1966 | British |
| FRENCH, Peter Robert | Director | 2019-06-01 | Jun 1965 | British |
| NIJJER, Gurjit Kaur | Director | 2025-09-01 | Jul 1977 | American |
| READING, Susan Penrice | Director | 2015-04-21 | Sep 1958 | British |
| WARD, Linda Margaret Ann | Director | 2024-01-19 | Sep 1963 | British |
| WARD, Stephen | Director | 2015-03-04 | Nov 1945 | British |
| WITHEYMAN, Antony Glyn | Director | 2025-04-28 | Apr 1978 | British |
Show 19 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARRATT, Peter Norman | Director | 2015-04-21 | 2016-12-31 |
| BEDWELL, Paul John | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2021-08-31 |
| CARR-ARCHER, Elizabeth | Director | 2015-04-21 | 2019-04-14 |
| CLANCY, Jayne Elizabeth | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2025-03-31 |
| DAVIES, Paul Howard | Director | 2020-07-01 | 2024-06-30 |
| DRAKE, Susan Catherine | Director | 2015-04-21 | 2015-12-31 |
| GRINDROD, Peter | Director | 2015-03-04 | 2017-07-31 |
| HOYLAND, Sandy | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2021-09-02 |
| JOHNSON, Emma Louise | Director | 2025-04-30 | 2026-03-18 |
| JOHNSTON, Malcolm Charles | Director | 2025-05-08 | 2025-12-19 |
| JONES, Roger Paul | Director | 2015-03-04 | 2017-08-31 |
| PANI, Abhijit | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2020-08-31 |
| PLANT, Mark | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2019-10-14 |
| READ, Andrew James | Director | 2024-05-01 | 2024-11-12 |
| SAGE, Rosemary Joy Wysall | Director | 2020-07-01 | 2026-03-18 |
| SANCHEZ-THOMPSON, Joanne Caroline | Director | 2017-04-10 | 2025-08-31 |
| STUTTLE, David Clifford Harding | Director | 2017-01-27 | 2019-04-04 |
| WISE, Avril Miriam | Director | 2015-04-21 | 2016-08-31 |
| WITHEYMAN, Antony Glyn | Director | 2022-01-20 | 2023-06-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 77 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company | |
| 2026-03-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-03-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-04-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 14
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 4
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 2024-08-31 vs 2023-08-31
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Turnover
+10.4%
£5,924,170 £6,541,586
-
Cash
+10.6%
£929,437 £1,028,314
-
Net assets
-3.5%
£10,270,009 £9,909,116
-
Employees
-1.8%
168 165
-
Operating profit
+25.4%
-£780,418 -£581,995
-
Profit before tax
+28.7%
-£812,792 -£579,893
-
Wages
+7%
£3,495,837 £3,738,813
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