LEARNING FOR LIFE TRUST
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-29 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+403.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£16M
+596.5% vs 2024
Employees
296
+232.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£12M
+10,066.9% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £3,484,020 | £14,257,760 | |
| Operating profit | £114,200 | £11,791,108 | |
| Profit before tax | £116,174 | £11,811,309 | |
| Net profit | £116,174 | £11,811,309 | |
| Cash | £468,538 | £2,359,904 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,363,502 | £14,176,290 | |
| Net assets | £2,363,502 | £16,462,811 | |
| Equity | £2,363,502 | £16,462,811 | |
| Average employees | 89 | 296 | |
| Wages | £2,017,185 | £8,351,581 |
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 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.3% | 82.7% | |
| Net margin | 3.3% | 82.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 4.8% | 83.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.03x | 1.92x | |
| Interest cover | — | 7265.01x |
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
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Saint & Co
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making appropriate enquiries, the board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the 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.”
Group structure
- LEARNING FOR LIFE TRUST · parent
- Cockermouth School 100%
Significant events
- “Grown the Trust significantly with the addition of Cockermouth School.”
- “Successfully continued the work towards a new school build at Cockermouth School within the national DfE School Rebuilding Programme having completed feasibility and procurement phases of this and entering pre-construction phase.”
- “The 2024/25 academic year has been transformative for our Trust.”
- “Completed full and thorough due diligence for Broughton Moor Primary School leading to DfE support for academisation in 2025/26.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARKER, Carolyn | Secretary | 2015-07-16 | — | — |
| BRETTLE, John | Director | 2022-10-20 | Feb 1960 | British |
| COOK, Brendon | Director | 2022-01-13 | Jul 1960 | British |
| DESMOND, Monica Louise | Director | 2023-02-16 | Apr 1965 | British |
| MORGAN, Huw Gwilym, Dr | Director | 2021-03-02 | Mar 1954 | English |
| NICOLS, Oliver Paul | Director | 2015-07-16 | Aug 1970 | British |
| TERRY, Paul Andrew | Director | 2024-02-08 | Dec 1957 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENNETT, Victoria Susan | Director | 2015-07-16 | 2023-07-31 |
| COONEY, Andrew | Director | 2016-12-12 | 2020-12-11 |
| DUMBILL, Charlotte Hermin | Director | 2025-09-05 | 2026-05-11 |
| PATTINSON, Andrea | Director | 2015-07-16 | 2017-04-04 |
| SMITH, Craig | Director | 2015-07-16 | 2021-01-11 |
| STEELE, Christopher John | Director | 2017-09-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| WATSON, Richard Philip Ernest | Director | 2024-09-01 | 2025-10-21 |
| WILKINSON, Alexander | Director | 2021-03-02 | 2022-12-31 |
| YOXALL, Doris | Director | 2015-07-16 | 2016-02-28 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Christopher Neil Halliwell | Individual | significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2025-10-31 | Active |
| Miss Hannah Louise Kozich | Individual | Appoints directors | 2021-12-01 | Ceased 2023-12-01 |
| Mr James Cowan | Individual | Appoints directors | 2018-03-07 | Ceased 2020-02-07 |
| Mr Alex John Mccarthy | Individual | Appoints directors | 2018-03-07 | Active |
| Mrs Sian Louise Hellier Spencer | Individual | Appoints directors | 2018-03-07 | Active |
| Miss Emma Louise Kidd | Individual | Appoints directors | 2018-03-07 | Active |
| Mrs Doris Yoxall | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-03-07 |
| Mrs Leah Eleanor Lister | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-03-07 |
| Mrs Ellen Loiuse Goodfellow | Individual | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2018-03-07 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 54 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-14 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-12 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-03-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-13 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-09-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-06-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-12-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-07-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-08-31 vs 2024-08-31
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Turnover
+309.2%
£3,484,020 £14,257,760
-
Cash
+403.7%
£468,538 £2,359,904
-
Net assets
+596.5%
£2,363,502 £16,462,811
-
Employees
+232.6%
89 296
-
Operating profit
+10,225%
£114,200 £11,791,108
-
Profit before tax
+10,066.9%
£116,174 £11,811,309
-
Wages
+314%
£2,017,185 £8,351,581
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