WISHFORD EDUCATION GROUP LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-05-31 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-25 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-11
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
+30.2% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£44M
+25.6% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
884
+18.2% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
-£271K
-209.7% vs 2024
Net assets
4-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
4-year trend · latest reflected 2025-08-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-08-31 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | £36,728,965 | £46,117,032 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | £910,358 | £981,349 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £246,676 | -£270,610 | |
| Net profit | — | — | -£140,745 | £1,883,677 | |
| Cash | — | £1 | £5,840,571 | £7,604,532 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £34,809,654 | £61,483,499 | £75,786,969 | |
| Net assets | — | — | £34,693,538 | £43,577,215 | |
| Equity | £22,278,078 | £34,809,654 | £34,693,538 | £43,577,215 | |
| Average employees | — | 636 | 748 | 884 | |
| Wages | — | — | £18,826,756 | £23,939,557 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | £104,000 | £126,667 |
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
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-08-31 vs 2024-08-31
-
Turnover
+25.6%
£36,728,965 £46,117,032
-
Cash
+30.2%
£5,840,571 £7,604,532
highest in 3 filed years
-
Net assets
+25.6%
£34,693,538 £43,577,215
-
Employees
+18.2%
748 884
highest in 3 filed years
-
Operating profit
+7.8%
£910,358 £981,349
-
Profit before tax
-209.7%
£246,676 -£270,610
-
Wages
+27.2%
£18,826,756 £23,939,557
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2022-08-31 | 2023-08-31 | 2024-08-31 | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | 2.5% | 2.1% | |
| Net margin | — | — | -0.4% | 4.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | 1.5% | 1.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | 57.7% | 56.7% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | 0.74x | 0.73x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | 1.35x | 0.63x |
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
- Hazlewoods LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The group has sufficient resources available and the directors have prepared forecasts for the next 12 months that indicate that this will continue to be the case, and that these cash flows will be sufficient for the group to meet its financing commitments as they fall due. The directors therefore have a reasonable expectation that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and have continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- WISHFORD EDUCATION GROUP LIMITED · parent
- Wishford Education Holdings Limited 100%
- Wishford Schools (Group) Limited 100%
- Heywood Prep Limited 100%
- St Faith's at Ash School Limited 100%
- Hatherop Castle Limited 100%
- St Edward's Prep Limited 100%
- St David's Prep Limited 100%
- The Mead School Limited 100%
- Cricklade Manor Prep Limited 100%
- Westonbirt Limited 100%
- Wishford Nurseries Limited 100%
- Rupert House School (Henley) Limited 100%
- LC2 Limited 100%
- Westonbirt Leisure Limited 100%
- Wishford P1 Limited 100%
- Wishford P2 Limited 100%
- Wishford P3 Limited 100%
- Wishford P5 Limited 100%
- Wishford P6 Limited 100%
- Westonbirt Properties Limited 100%
- Ilsom House Limited 100%
- Wishford Education Holdco 3 Limited 100%
- High March School Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Subsequent to the year end on 31 October 2025, the group acquired the trade and assets of St Mary's School for £1,815,000.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 0 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROUGHTON SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2021-11-23 | — | — |
| ANTROBUS, Samuel Joseph | Director | 2022-03-16 | Nov 1978 | British |
| JOHNSON, David William | Director | 2025-01-01 | Aug 1957 | British |
| LAW, Shane Edward | Director | 2021-11-23 | Aug 1972 | British |
| STAMATE-ROCHA, Irina | Director | 2021-11-23 | Oct 1982 | British |
| SYKES, Richard David | Director | 2025-01-01 | Nov 1973 | British |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patron Capital Advisers Llp | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2021-11-23 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 39 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-11-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-01-20 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-11-05 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-11-01 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-09-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-05-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-02-21 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-09-19 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-09-19 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-09-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-09-15 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-08-18 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 2
- 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.