Company registration number 05172078 (England and Wales)
EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
COMPANY INFORMATION
Directors
JS Gordon
PR Hepburn
PK Johnstone
Secretary
Resolis Limited
Company number
05172078
Registered office
1 Park Row
Leeds
United Kingdom
LS1 5AB
Auditor
Johnston Carmichael LLP
Bishop's Court
29 Albyn Place
Aberdeen
AB10 1YL
Bankers
Commerzbank AG
London Branch
PO Box 52715
London
EC2P 2XY
EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Directors' report
1 - 2
Independent auditor's report
3 - 6
Statement of comprehensive income
7
Balance sheet
8
Statement of changes in equity
9
Notes to the financial statements
10 - 14
EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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The directors present their annual report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Principal activities

The principal activity of the Company is to act as the holding company of Education Support (Swindon) Limited, which has entered into a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract to design, build and operate seven schools for Swindon Borough Council (the Authority).

Results and dividends

The results for the year are set out on page 7.

Directors

The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:

JS Gordon
PR Hepburn
PK Johnstone
Qualifying third party indemnity provisions

The company has made qualifying third party indemnity provisions for the benefit of its directors during the year. These provisions remain in force at the reporting date.

Auditor

The auditor, Johnston Carmichael LLP, is deemed to be reappointed under section 487(2) of the Companies Act 2006.

Statement of directors' responsibilities

The directors are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

 

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

 

 

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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Statement of disclosure to auditor

Each of the Directors in office at the date of approval of this annual report confirms that:

 

    so far as the Director is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the Company's auditor is     unaware, and

    the Director has taken all the steps that he/she ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself/    herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the Company's auditor is aware of that     information.

 

This confirmation is given and should be interpreted in accordance with the provisions of section 418 of the Companies Act 2006.

Small companies exemption

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption.

On behalf of the board
PR Hepburn
Director
30 April 2025
EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Education Support (Swindon) Holdings Limited (‘the company’) for the year ended 31 December 2024, which comprise the Statement of Comprehensive Income, Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Changes in Equity and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

 

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

 

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the Annual Report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

 

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit:

EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED)
TO THE MEMBERS OF EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the directors' report. We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

 

Responsibilities of directors

As explained more fully in the directors' responsibilities statement, set out on page 1, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

 

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: http://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Extent the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below.

We assessed whether the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence and capabilities to identify or recognise non-compliance with laws and regulations by considering their experience, past performance and support available.

EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED)
TO THE MEMBERS OF EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
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All engagement team members were briefed on relevant identified laws and regulations and potential fraud risks at the planning stage of the audit. Engagement team members were reminded to remain alert to any indications of fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations throughout the audit.

We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks that are applicable to company and the sector in which it operates, focusing on those provisions that had a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The most relevant frameworks we identified include:

We gained an understanding of how the company is complying with these laws and regulations by making enquiries of management and those charged with governance. We corroborated these enquiries through our review of relevant correspondence with regulatory bodies and board meeting minutes.

We assessed the susceptibility of the financial statements to material misstatement, including how fraud might occur, by discussing with management and those charged with governance to understand where it was considered there was susceptibility to fraud. This evaluation also considered how management and those charged with governance were remunerated and whether this provided an incentive for fraudulent activity. We considered the overall control environment and how management and those charged with governance oversee the implementation and operation of controls. We identified a heightened fraud risk in relation to:

 

In addition to the above, the following procedures were performed to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements were free of material fraud or error:

Our audit procedures were designed to respond to the risk of material misstatements in the financial statements, recognising that the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation. There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures performed and the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED)
TO THE MEMBERS OF EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Jenny Junnier
Senior Statutory Auditor
For and on behalf of Johnston Carmichael LLP
30 April 2025
Chartered Accountants
Statutory Auditor
Bishop's Court
29 Albyn Place
Aberdeen
AB10 1YL
EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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2024
2023
£'000
£'000
Income from shares in group undertakings
-
0
400,000
Interest receivable from group undertakings
79,167
72,000
Interest payable to group undertakings
(79,167)
(72,000)
Profit before taxation
-
0
400,000
Tax on profit
-
0
-
0
Profit for the financial year
-
0
400,000

The profit and loss account has been prepared on the basis that all operations are continuing operations.

EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT
31 DECEMBER 2024
31 December 2024
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2024
2023
Notes
£'000
£'000
£'000
£'000
Fixed assets
Investments
5
10,000
10,000
Current assets
Debtors falling due after more than one year
7
600,000
600,000
Debtors falling due within one year
7
97,315
18,148
697,315
618,148
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
8
(97,315)
(18,148)
Net current assets
600,000
600,000
Total assets less current liabilities
610,000
610,000
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
9
(600,000)
(600,000)
Net assets
10,000
10,000
Capital and reserves
-
-
Called up share capital
10,000
10,000

The notes on pages 10 to 14 form part of these financial statements.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 30 April 2025 and are signed on its behalf by:
PR Hepburn
Director
Company registration number 05172078 (England and Wales)
EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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Share capital
Profit and loss reserves
Total
£'000
£'000
£'000
Balance at 1 January 2023
10,000
-
0
10,000
Year ended 31 December 2023:
Profit and total comprehensive income
-
400,000
400,000
Dividends
-
(400,000)
(400,000)
Balance at 31 December 2023
10,000
-
0
10,000
Year ended 31 December 2024:
Profit and total comprehensive income
-
-
0
-
0
Balance at 31 December 2024
10,000
-
0
10,000
EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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1
Accounting policies
Company information

Education Support (Swindon) Holdings Limited is a private company, limited by shares, registered and incorporated in England and Wales. The Company's registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information page.

 

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company.

 

Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £'000.

1.1
Accounting convention

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 as applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The disclosure requirements of section 1A of FRS 102 have been applied other than where additional disclosure is required to show a true and fair view.

 

Consolidation

These financial statements present information about the above company alone and not of a group.

Consolidated financial statements have not been prepared as provided by section 400 of the Companies Act 2006.

1.2
Fixed asset investments

Interests in subsidiaries are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost less any accumulated impairment losses. The investments are assessed for impairment at each reporting date and any impairment losses or reversals of impairment losses are recognised immediately in profit or loss.

A subsidiary is an entity controlled by the Company. Control is the power to govern the financial and operating policies of the entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities.

1.3
Financial instruments

The Company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.

 

Financial instruments are recognised in the Company's balance sheet when the Company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

 

Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

Basic financial assets

Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Loan and receivables

Trade debtors, loans and other receivables that have fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted in an active market are classified as 'loans and receivables'. Loans and receivables are measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less any impairment.

 

Interest is recognised by applying the effective interest rate, except for short-term receivables when the recognition of the interest would be immaterial. The effective interest method is a method of calculating the amortised cost of a debt instrument and of allocating the interest income over the relevant period. The effective interest rate is the rate that exactly discounts estimated future cash receipts through the expected life of the debt instrument to the net carrying amount on initial recognition.

Impairment of financial assets

Financial assets, other than those held at fair value through profit and loss are assessed for indicators of impairment at each reporting end date.

 

Financial assets are impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after the initial recognition of the financial asset, the estimated future cash flows have been affected. The impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.

Derecognition of financial assets

Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire, or when it transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity.

Classification of financial liabilities

Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.

Basic financial liabilities

Basic financial liabilities, including creditors and loans from fellow group companies, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

 

Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.

 

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Derecognition of financial liabilities

Financial liabilities are derecognised when, and only when, the obligation specified in the contract is discharged, cancelled, or expires.

1.4
Equity instruments

Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.

EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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2
Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

 

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

Critical judgements

The following judgements (apart from those involving estimates) have had the most significant effect on amounts recognised in the financial statements.

Impairment of fixed asset investments

The directors assess the fixed asset investments for impairment on an annual basis. In checking the investment for impairment they review the payments, dividends, subordinated debt interest and subordinated capital repayments, made from the subsidiary company and the results for the year of the subsidiary company. Judgement is required in assessing the value of any impairment where payments from the subsidiary are below the forecast amounts.

3
Auditor's remuneration
2024
2023
Fees payable to the company's auditor and associates:
£'000
£'000
For audit services
Audit of the financial statements of the company
19
18
4
Employees

The Company had no employees during the current or prior year.

5
Fixed asset investments
2024
2023
£'000
£'000
Shares in group undertakings and participating interests
10,000
10,000

The Company's subsidiary undertaking, Education Support (Swindon) Limited, is wholly owned and incorporated in the United Kingdom. Its activity is to design, build and operate seven schools for a Local Authority under a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) agreement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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6
Subsidiaries

Details of the company's subsidiaries at 31 December 2024 are as follows:

Name of undertaking
Registered office
Class of
% Held
shares held
Direct
Education Support (Swindon) Limited
1 Park Row, Leeds, United Kingdom, LS1 5AB
Ordinary shares
100.00

The results for the year to 31 December 2024 for Education Support (Swindon) Limited was a profit of £750,000 (2023: £809,000). At the balance sheet date the reserves of Education Support (Swindon) Limited were £2,385,000 (2023: £1,165,000).

7
Debtors
2024
2023
Amounts falling due within one year:
£'000
£'000
Other debtors
97,315
18,148
2024
2023
Amounts falling due after more than one year:
£'000
£'000
Amounts owed by group undertakings
600,000
600,000
Total debtors
697,315
618,148

Amounts due from subsidiary undertakings

At the year end, the Company was owed £600,000 (2023: £600,000) in subordinated debt loans and £97,315. (2023: £18,148) in accrued interest from its subsidiary, Education Support (Swindon) Limited.

 

The subordinated debt is unsecured and is subject to interest at 12%. The principal amount will be repayable at the end of the concession in 2032.

8
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2024
2023
£'000
£'000
Other creditors
97,315
18,148
9
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
2024
2023
£'000
£'000
Other creditors
600,000
600,000
EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) HOLDINGS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
9
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
(Continued)
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Creditors which fall due after five years are as follows:
2024
2023
£'000
£'000
Payable other than by instalments
600
600
10
Related party transactions

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Jura Acquisition Limited, the Company has taken advantage of the exemption under FRS 102 Section 33 not to provide information on related party transactions with other undertakings in the Jura Infrastructure Limited group. A copy of the financial statements of Jura Infrastructure Limited can be obtained from its registered office at Heritage Hall, PO Box 225, Le Marchant Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 4HY.

11
Parent company

The Company's ultimate parent company is Jura Acquisition limited, which is 100% owned by Jura Holdings Limited, a Guernsey registered company owned by a consortium of jointly-led funds managed by Dalmore Capital Limited and Equitix Investment Management Limited. The Directors regard Jura Holdings Limited as the ultimate parent of the Company. The Directors consider that there is no ultimate controlling entity.

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