EDUCATION PLACEMENT GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-18 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£771K
+7.7% vs 2023
Net assets
£10M
+2.3% vs 2023
Employees
183
0% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£570K
-5.6% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- EDUCATION PLACEMENT GROUP LIMITED 2016-10-17 → present
- STAR TOPCO LIMITED 2015-07-17 → 2016-10-17
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £49,193,000 | £53,928,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,860,000 | £1,712,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £604,000 | £570,000 | |
| Net profit | £928,000 | £217,000 | |
| Cash | £716,000 | £771,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £10,556,000 | £17,812,000 | |
| Net assets | £9,518,000 | £9,735,000 | |
| Equity | £9,518,000 | £9,735,000 | |
| Average employees | 183 | 183 | |
| Wages | £8,239,000 | £8,663,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.8% | 3.2% | |
| Net margin | 1.9% | 0.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 17.6% | 9.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 62.9% | 61.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.42x | 0.87x | |
| Interest cover | 1.48x | 1.50x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and have further concluded that there is no material uncertainty over the going concern assumption. Thus, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- EDUCATION PLACEMENT GROUP LIMITED · parent
- Star North Midco Limited 100%
- Star Midco 1 Limited 100%
- Star Midco 2 Limited 100%
- Star Bidco Limited 100%
- North Midco Limited 100%
- North Bidco Limited 100%
- Synarbor Limited 100%
- Just Teachers Holdings Limited 100%
- Just Teachers Limited 100%
- Supply Desk Limited 100%
- E-Qualitas Professional Services Limited 100%
- EPGL EBT Trustee Limited 100%
- Teach In Limited 100%
- Synarbor Resource Solutions Limited 100%
- Qualified Schools Limited 100%
- Qualified Teachers Limited 100%
- Synarbor Education Limited 100%
- Kellis Group Limited 100%
- Synarbor Support Services Limited 100%
- TeachLondon Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In July 2024, the Group completed a refinancing of its lending facilities, settling previous facilities from Lloyds Bank Plc and securing new ones from Investec Bank Plc.”
- “On 16 July 2024, the Company acquired the share capital of Star North Midco Limited ('SNM'), an off the shelf company, for consideration of £1.”
- “On 17 July 2024, the Company and SNM entered into a share for share exchange agreement, transferring holding in directly owned subsidiary undertakings to SNM.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPEDDING, Katharine Irene | Secretary | 2021-07-20 | — | — |
| CLARKE, Garry Paul | Director | 2020-02-12 | Feb 1975 | British |
| HARLEY, Julian Edward | Director | 2015-08-24 | Aug 1957 | British |
| JOHNSTONE, Robyn Julieann | Director | 2016-11-04 | Mar 1967 | British,Australian |
| JONES, David Mark | Director | 2019-07-01 | Mar 1965 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CESENAS, Jose Jesus Rodriguez | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2016-11-04 |
| ETCHELL, William John | Director | 2017-06-06 | 2019-03-31 |
| HARGRAVE, David Gerald Lancelot | Director | 2020-02-12 | 2024-08-29 |
| KING, Robert Douglas | Director | 2015-07-30 | 2020-06-25 |
| MOYNIHAN, Timothy Eugene | Director | 2017-11-22 | 2018-06-14 |
| NEEDLEY, Michael | Director | 2015-07-17 | 2016-11-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epgl Ebt Trustee Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 25–50% | 2020-06-25 | Active |
| Sovereign Capital Partners Llp | Corporate entity | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-06-25 |
| Bb Shelf 4 Llp | Corporate entity | Significant influence, significant-influence-or-control-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2020-06-25 |
| Sovereign Capital Iv Limited Partnership | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 82 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-12-13 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-12-13 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-07-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-07-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-07-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-07-19 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-07-19 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-07-18 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-07-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-30 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-10-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-09-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-09-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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
+9.6%
£49,193,000 £53,928,000
-
Cash
+7.7%
£716,000 £771,000
-
Net assets
+2.3%
£9,518,000 £9,735,000
-
Employees
0%
183 183
-
Operating profit
-8%
£1,860,000 £1,712,000
-
Profit before tax
-5.6%
£604,000 £570,000
-
Wages
+5.1%
£8,239,000 £8,663,000
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